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Global partners commit to evidence-based traditional, complementary and integrative medicine
The first-ever World Health Organization (WHO) Traditional Medicine Global Summit 2023 closed on 18 August, with a strong commitment from the diverse and unique groups of partners and stakeholders to harness the potential of the evidence-based traditional, complementary and integrative medicine (TCIM) to improve progress towards universal health coverage and Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 for the health and well-being of people and the planet.
Health ministers from G20 and other countries, scientists, practitioners of traditional medicine, health workers and members of civil society from 88 countries participated in the Summit that took place in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India on 17 and 18 August 2023.
The Summit provided a platform for all stakeholders to share their unique experiences, best practices and ideas for collaboration. It included a diverse group of Indigenous Peoples from different regions of the world (e.g. Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Guatemala and New Zealand, among others) for whom many TCIM approaches play a fundamental role in not just health care, but also culture and livelihoods.
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Nearly 15% of all health care dollars wasted in useless admin
Administrative waste—defined as unnecessary non-clinical expenses that have no beneficial impact on patient care—accounts for roughly 15% of all US healthcare spending, according to a new analysis by the policy journal, Health Affairs.
Up to one-third of all money spent on healthcare in the US goes toward non-medical administrative costs. That’s nearly twice the level seen in other industrialized countries.
The Council on Health Care Spending and Value—a non-partisan consortium of economists and health policy experts—estimates that fully half of that can be classified as “wasteful spending,” defined as expenditure that “does not contribute to health outcomes in any discernible way.”
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