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Core Concepts in Health Brief, 9/e

Paul M. Insel, Stanford University, School of Medicine
Walton T. Roth, Stanford University, School of Medicine

Conventional and Complementary Medicine: Skills for the Health Care Consumer

Vital Statistics

Table 15-1 (See p. 349 in your text.)
Use of Complementary and Alternative Therapies in the United States

Statistics on the use of CAM in the United States are available in the following research studies:

http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v280n18/abs/joc80870.html Eisenberg, D. M., et al. 1998. Trends in alternative medicine use in the United States, 1990-1997. Results of a follow-up national survey. Journal of the American Medical Association 280(18): 1569-1575.

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/328/4/246 Eisenberg, D. M., et al. 1993. Unconventional medicine in the United States--Prevalence, costs, and patterns of use. New England Journal of Medicine 328(4): 246-252.

For updates and additional information, visit the Web site of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) or search for recent research articles at PubMed.

Figure 15-4 (See p. 365 in your text.)
U.S. health care expenditures

Current figures for health care expenditures and projections for future expenditures are available from the Health Care Financing Administration. Additional information is available from the National Center for Health Statistics, in the annual publication, Health, United States. The World Health Organization's World Health Report 2000 focused on health systems around the world and includes information on per capita health care spending around the world.

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