[Chinese constitution research and the practice of 4P medical model].
The aim of modern medicine is transforming from disease to health. Thus the medical model of 4P was proposed in recent years. 4P includes preventive, predictive, personalized, and participatory medical model. In constitution theory of Chinese medicine, there are three main ideas. The first one is: constitutions can be divided to nine types in the Chinese population. Prevention and treatment of disease can be divided according to the constitutional type. This reflects personalized or individualized of 4P. The second one is: certain constitution is correlated to certain disease. So constitution differentiation can be used to predict the occurrence of any kind disease. The third one is: Disease can be prevented through regulating correlated constitutions. And during the course of constitution differentiation, the object of service or patients can participate in the whole course. In summary, the research of Chinese medical constitution embodies the application and practice of 4P medical model. And it provided reference for studying and developing other subjects under the present medical model.
Center for Studies on Constitution Research of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029.
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D035843:Biomedical Research; D001824:Body Constitution; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional / Q000379:methods*; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'