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Everyone agrees with the statement: your health is your wealth. EU Charters endorse this and the EU has some impressive public health policies and programmes to support it. Every EU member state has a health department, but many, if not most, are overstretched and under- funded.
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) seeks to support the existing medical system and offer real and important means by which scarce resources can be extended.
CAM operates primarily in the field of public health. Its main reason for use by citizens is to maintain health and prevent illness. CAM offers diverse approaches to meet the diversity of people and their health needs and addresses the entire range from health maintenance to treatment of illness, particularly chronic illness.
“Our highest priority is therefore to develop a common European system of appropriate regulation of CAM professionals and services to provide EU citizens with equality of access to CAM, which protects both the rights of those who use these services, as well as those who provide them.”
CAM
CAM is a diverse range of autonomous healthcare practices used for health maintenance, health education, health promotion, disease prevention and for the treatment of ill-health.
EFCAM
EFCAM unites European Federations for specific Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) modalities and national multi-modality CAM Associations.
CAM Regulation
Regulation based on the recognition across Europe of the appropriate training for each CAM modality can serve the public and the professions alike.
Meet Our Board
Chris McAlister
President
European Shiatsu Federation, Sweden
Clive Lucas
Treasurer
FICTA, Ireland
Irene Nolte
Policy Coordinator and Secretary
European Shiatsu Federation, Sweden
Our Blog
Latest Articles
World Health Organization on Child and Adolescent Health
On 1.3.2020 EFCAM joined the stakeholder consultation of World Health Organization on Child and Adolescent Health.
EFCAM attended the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) conference
EFCAM attended the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) conference on "A sustainable and effective EU health policy for citizens/focusing on chronic diseases and inclusion in social and economic life". Key focus was "fighting rheumatic and musculoskeletal...
EU Parliament MEPs declare support for CAM Practitioners’ right to work
At the second meeting of the European Parliament Interest Group for CAM hosted by Ms Marian Harkin MEP for the Midlands Northwest Constituency of Ireland and organised by EFCAM ( European Federation for Complementary and Alternative Medicine) MEP's declared their...