A call to action for individuals, governments and professional organisations

The International Congress of Integrative Medicine and Health, held from 9 to 11 June 2016 in Stuttgart, Germany, held a Declaration on integrative medicine and health.

The statement begins by addressing the challenges facing medicine today in Background.

Problems currently facing medicine:

• chronic diseases
• lifestyle-related diseases
• antibiotic resistance
• maternal and infant mortality in low-income countries
• climate change and pollution, which affect human health
• the lack of universal access to health services
• rising health costs

Nowadays people are looking for a healing that focuses on the person as a whole person and is compatible with self-healing and health promotion, as well as participatory

The integrative medicineIn this sense, it is centred on the individual, taking into account the person in his or her physical, psychological, spiritual, social and environmental context.

It is based on the integration of conventional with traditional and complementary biomedicine (T & CM). All appropriate therapeutic approaches and health disciplines are used to achieve optimal health and healing, recognising and respecting the unique contribution of many medical systems.

A fundamental aspect of integrative medicine is the importance of the doctor-patient relationship.The patient's collaboration and participation is extremely important. That is why at Biosalud Day Hospital we always insist on the individualisation of any therapy or treatment.. We apply one type of medicine or technique specifically and specifically for one person and another for a different person. This is how it should be.

The Stuttgart congress focuses on the support that integrative medicine can give to global health problems such as antibiotic resistance and non-communicable diseases.and to extend universal health coverage by addressing the social and environmental determinants of each community or individual.

This Stuttgart Declaration also emphasises the need to increased investment in medical research.

This integrative model of Health and Medicine is fully integrated with the in line with the World Health Organisation's Strategy on Traditional Medicine for 2014-2023.

Some countries are making significant progress in integrating T&CM into their health system, but many countries are lagging behind despite several resolutions of the World Health Assembly - the supreme decision-making body of the WHO - urging them to do so.

But the Stuttgart Declaration is not just words, but a call to Action to others to address urgent global health needs by developing comprehensive prevention and care.

It also makes a call on governments to recognise integrative medicine, include it in national health service delivery and in self-care. Health and integrative medicine policies and ambitious research programmes should be established.

And adopt drug regulatory pathways adapted to the specific nature of traditional and complementary medicines.

The appeal extends to the WHO:

• -To implement its strategy on traditional medicine 2014-2023
• -To adopt an integrative medicine approach to WHO strategies
• -To collaborate with T&CM research centres, practitioners and civil society to advance the implementation of the WHO Traditional Medicine Strategy.

Finally, there is a appeal to professional organisations

• To actively support the implementation of the WHO Strategy on Traditional Medicine, including through the certification of T&CM practitioners and consultations.

Biosalud, committed to integrative medicine

Biosalud Day HospitalThe centre, which applies integrative medicineIn this sense, it participates in the 1st Conference on Integrative Medicine together with the Spanish Association of Integrative Doctors, on 29 October 2016. in Zaragoza.

The event, whose lunch will take place at Biosalud Day Hospital, is expected to address, among others, themes as interesting as:

• The autoimmune diseases in integrative medicine
• Pain and acupuncture
• Integrative geriatrics
• Integrative Cancer Biology