Study on Policy of Promoting the Role of Traditional Medicine in Primary Health Care Services / 中国中医药信息杂志

ABSTRACT

How to use traditional medicine to play the role of primary health care to achieve strategic objectives of universal health coverage and health for all is an important issue for traditional medical development. World Health Organization (WHO) called out that the health system should return to primary health system which was officially launched 30 years ago. "Universal Health Coverage" was list as one of the overall objectives of WHO overall program in 2014-2019. WHO advocated incorporating traditional medicine into primary health care system to promote universal health coverage. At the same time, under the new situation of returning to the "basic health care", China has accumulated rich experience in incorporating TCM into basic health care system. Chinese medicine service has been successfully incorporated into the national basic public health services in grassroots medical institutions, and Chinese medicine service capacity has also been significantly improved under the guidance of good policy.