Traditional Medicine and its Role in Contemporary New Zealand Healthcare

Origins of New Zealand Society and Concepts of Culture and Social Groups

This Assignment will be assessing the following Learning Outcomes
1. Investigate the origins of New Zealand Society and concepts of culture and social groups in New Zealand and illustrate how this may have an impact on the role of the Chinese Medicine profession in contemporary New Zealand healthcare.
2 Investigate and compare different sectors in the New Zealand health and social care systems, and explain the historical development of one sector within the last five decades.
Topic:
“Traditional medicine (TM) is an important and often underestimated part of health services. In some countries, traditional medicine or non-conventional medicine may be termed complementary medicine (CM). TM has a long history of use in health maintenance and in disease prevention and treatment, particularly for chronic disease”.The WHO Traditional Medicine Strategy 2014-2023 emphasizes the following three strategic goals:
“1. Build the knowledge base that will allow T&CM to be managed actively through appropriate national policies that understand and recognize the role and potential of T&CM.
2. Strengthen the quality assurance, safety, proper use and effectiveness of T&CM by regulating products, practices and practitioners through T&CM education and training, skills development, services and therapies.
3. Promote universal health coverage by integrating T&CM services into health service delivery and self-health care by capitalizing on their potential contribution to improve health services and health outcomes, and by ensuring users are able to make informed choices about self-health care”.Using the above quote as a reference point in this essay you should demonstrate that you can discuss the following points:
Discuss the origins of New Zealand society and the concept of culture and social groups in New Zealand. Illustrate how this may have an impact on the role of the Chinese medicine profession in contemporary New Zealand;