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The advanced healthcare wiki has been established to provide a site on the Internet for the posting of information about complementary, alternative and avdanced health care modalities (sometimes called "CAM").
Regulation
Jurisdiction differs concerning which branches of advanced healthcare, complementary modalities or alternative medicine (commonly known as "CAM" for "Complementary and Alternative Modalities") are legal under the Common Law, International Standards and Human Rights, which are regulated, and which (if any) are provided by a government-controlled health service or reimbursed by a private health medical insurance company. See the entry under Therapy Benefits [1] for a discussion of the distinction between CAM "therapies that may benefit" and the "treatment of disease."
In article 34 (Specific legal obligations) of the General Comment No. 14 (2000) on The right to the highest attainable standard of health of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (United Nations), it is stated that
Obligations to respect (the right to health) include a State's obligation to refrain from prohibiting or impeding traditional preventive care, healing practices and medicines, from marketing unsafe drugs and from applying coercive medical treatments <ref>COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS. General Comment No. 14 (2000) The right to the highest attainable standard of health : . 11/08/2000. E/C.12/2000/4. http://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/(symbol)/E.C.12.2000.4.en</ref>
A number of complementary, alternative and advanced modality advocates disagree with the restrictions of government agencies that approve medical treatments (such as the American Food and Drug Administration) and the agencies' adherence to experimental evaluation methods. They claim that this impedes those seeking to bring useful and effective treatments and approaches to the public, and protest that their contributions and discoveries are unfairly dismissed, overlooked or suppressed. Alternative medicine providers often argue that health fraud should be dealt with appropriately when it occurs.
