Affiliation:
1. Department of Community and Family Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2. Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Manchester
Abstract
We studied 2, 822 subjects above 18 years of age in Hong Kong by random telephone interview to assess the role of traditional Chinese medicine in health care. During their most recent illness, 73% consulted Western doctors, 17% self-medicated while 9% consulted herbalists. Age and education were important determinants of their health care choice. The most common reason given for their choice was faith in the practitioners they consulted. When they needed further consultation for the same illness, 42% consulted herbalists, illustrating that herbalists played an important supplementary role when Western medicine failed to provide relief. Compared with previous findings, there appeared to be little decline in the popularity of traditional Chinese medicine in Hong Kong.
Subject
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
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