ICAM.M1

A state of complete physical, mental and social well being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

• Health

• Wellness

• Complementary medicine

• Alternative medicine

An executive department of the Philippines that has established the traditional medicine unit which promoted the use of medicinal plants, acupuncture and therapeutic massage. 

• DOH

• DSWD

• DBM

• DENR

A policy that has has established the Philippine Institute for Traditional and Complementary Health care (PITAHC) in 1997 as an attached agency of the DOH.

• Republic act 8433

• Republic act 8344

• Republic act 8434

• Republic act 8333

A group of diverse medical and health care systems, practices and products that are not presently considered to be part of the conventional medicine.

• Complementary and alternative medicine

• Therapeutic massage

• Acupuncture

• Herbal medicine

Year in which the Department of Health established the traditional medicine unit which promoted the use of medicinal plants, acupuncture and therapeutic massage.

• 1993-1995

• 1992-1994

• 1993-1996

• 1993-1994

An example of complementary and alternative medicine which means "The science of life"

• Ayurveda

• Qigong

• Acupuncture

• Iridology

A branch of medicine concerned with the application of the principles of biology, anatomy, histology, biochemistry and others.

• Biomedicine

• Conventional model

• Health

• Wellness

Dimension of health, wellness and well being, EXCEPT:

• Cultural

• Heart

• Soul

• Mind

It is an alternative medicine technique whose proponents claim that patterns, colors, and other characteristics of the iris can be examined to determine information about a patient's systemic health.

• Iridology

• Moxibustion

• Tuina

• Orthomolecular

A model that measures health by counting cases of diseases in populations by rate of occurrence, prevalence, the condition and rate of death in a particular disease. 

• Alternative Model

• Biomedical model

• Beveridge model

• Bismarck model