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Call for papers - Knowledge and attitudes towards complementary medicine

Guest Editors:
Joanna E. Harnett: The University of Sydney, Australia
Jutta Hübner: Universitätsklinikum Jena, Germany
Carolina Oi Lam Ung: University of Macau, China
 

Submission Status: Open   |   Submission Deadline: 23 February 2024


BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies is calling for submissions to our Collection on knowledge and attitudes towards complementary medicine. BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies aims to bridge the gap in knowledge about complementary medicine. Despite the widespread use of complementary medicine and therapies (CAM), knowledge about how healthcare providers, caregivers, and the general public choose and use complementary approaches to healthcare remains limited. This collection seeks to encourage discussions in the scientific community about knowledge and attitudes towards CAM across diverse patient populations and cultural settings.

Meet the Guest Editors

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Joanna E. Harnett: The University of Sydney, Australia

Joanna Harnett is a senior lecturer (complementary medicines) within the Faculty of Medicine Health at the University of Sydney’s Pharmacy School. Her teaching and research activity include: the appropriate and safe use of complementary medicine products, integrative medicine education and communication, and gastrointestinal microbiome in health and disease. She currently serves on the board of the International Society for Traditional, Complementary, Integrative Medicine Research. She is a member of the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration Advisory Committee for Complementary Medicines.
 

Jutta Hübner: Universitätsklinikum Jena, Germany

Jutta Hübner is the the Chair for Integrative Oncology at the Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology at the Jena University Hospital, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. Between 2009 and 2012 she was the Head of Palliative Medicine, Supportive and Complementary Oncology and the University Cancer Centrum of the University Hospital Frankfurt. She then served as the Head of scientific database project for the German Cancer Society from 2013 to 2016.
 

Carolina Oi Lam Ung: University of Macau, China

Carolina Ung is an assistant professor at the Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences and the Department of Public Health and Medicinal Administration at University of Macau. Her research work mainly falls within the following 4 areas: (1) regulatory science in medical and pharmaceutical products, (2) evidence base about traditional, complementary and integrative medicine, (3) community health and chronic disease management and (4) social and administrative pharmacy. Dr. Ung is also an Honorary Research Fellow in the Sydney School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Australia.
 


About the collection

BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies is calling for submissions to our Collection on knowledge and attitudes towards complementary medicine. 

BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies aims to bridge the gap in knowledge about complementary medicine. Despite the widespread use of complementary medicine and therapies (CAM), knowledge about how healthcare providers, caregivers, and the general public choose and use complementary approaches to healthcare remains limited. This collection seeks to encourage discussions in the scientific community about knowledge and attitudes towards CAM across diverse patient populations and cultural settings.

BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies invites submissions to this collection on topics such as, but not limited to, patients and practitioners' knowledge and perspectives on CAM use, current challenges and research opportunities. We welcome contributions from a variety of disciplines, perspectives, and both qualitative and quantitative studies, to enhance our understanding of complementary approaches to healthcare in diverse populations and cultural settings  and promote evidence-based practice.


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There are currently no articles in this collection.

Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of original Research Articles. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select "Knowledge and attitudes towards complementary medicine" from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Guest Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Guest Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.