title: Medicine and its alternatives. Health care priorities in the Caribbean.
abstract: In the Caribbean as in many other areas costly biomedical resources and personnel are limited, and more and more people are turning to alternative medicine and folk practitioners for health care. To meet the goal of providing health care for all, research on nonbiomedical therapies is needed, along with legal recognition of folk practitioners to establish standards of practice.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of the West Indies.
authors.forename: D E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Aarons
mesh_terms: D002017:Budgets; D017691:Caribbean Region; D000529:Complementary Therapies / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D003906:Developing Countries; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005544:Forecasting; D006292:Health Priorities / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends; D006295:Health Resources / Q000191:economics / Q000600:supply & distribution; D006280:Health Workforce; D006801:Humans; D008511:Medicine; D008519:Medicine, Traditional; D008517:Phytotherapy; D012926:Social Control, Formal