Provisional Agenda Item 45
Recognition of ancestral knowledge and traditional and complementary medicine
18. This priority line of action is aimed at promoting knowledge dialogue to facilitate the development and strengthening of intercultural health models as a way of achieving people-and community-centered healthcare. To this end, national policy frameworks, instruments, resources, and procedures should consider the different world views of indigenous peoples, Afro-descendants, Roma, and members of other ethnic groups, as applicable to the national context.
19. As a prerequisite for knowledge dialogue it is necessary to foster a new appreciation of traditional knowledge, practices, and cultural expressions, and to promotethese through each culture’s own transmission mechanisms. This should be taken into accountnot only in relation to care in sickness but also for health promotion andappropriate care at death.
20. Harnessing the potential contribution of traditional and complementary medicine to health, wellness, and people-centered health care is one of the goals of the WHO Traditional Medicine Strategy 2014-2023(27).
Recognition of ancestral knowledge is essential for tapping the potential of traditional medicine to contribute to universal access to health and universal health coverage, including the linkage or integration of these services in national health systems and the adoption of self-care interventions with an intercultural approach.
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