World Health Congress 2021 Prague

Traditional, Complementary, and Integrative Medicine (TCIM) has proven as a highly promising area for improvement of the efficacy, costs, and sustainability of healthcare systems. However, there are still significant gaps in mutual understanding of stakeholders in the area of TCIM and conventional medical healthcare.

Further development of individual TCIM fields, including easier integration into healthcare systems, calls for unifying projects that would help enhance credibility of TCIM area as a whole, and facilitate dialogue and mutual cooperation of TCIM with Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM), so that verified, efficacious and cost-effective TCIM treatments could be offered more widely to the patients, thus helping to open up significant resources also for further development of EBM.

The Platform 2020 Prague aims to become a milestone in unification and mutual support of all TCIM fields, via creating a common information space for communication across all fields of healthcare systems, including EBM, in order to use all options available in healthcare to the patients’ maximum benefit.

The World Health Congress 2021 Prague made an important contribution in the search for a pathway to sustainable future of healthcare systems. World-renowned scientists and professors from leading universities, policymakers, representatives of major international health institutions and TCIM organizations, medical doctors, TCIM practitioners, and other stakeholders, over 50 experts from 16 countries in Europe, Asia, and the Americas gathered together with their ideas and presentations at the occasion of inauguration of the Platform 2020 Prague.