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ArticleBulletin of the World Health Organization2025

Policy implications of WHO's Global traditional medicine strategy 2025-2034.

Yuk Ming Alice Wong, Sangyoung Ahn, Aditi Bana, Pradeep Kumar Dua, Rudi Eggers, Shyama Kuruvilla, Yachan Li, Qin Liu, Yunhui Shen, Sungchol Kim

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Article in Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 63 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

63 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Yuk Ming Alice WongWHO Global Traditional Medicine Centre, World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, 1211Geneva, Switzerland.
Sangyoung AhnWHO Global Traditional Medicine Centre, World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, 1211Geneva, Switzerland.
Aditi BanaWHO Global Traditional Medicine Centre, World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, 1211Geneva, Switzerland.
Pradeep Kumar DuaWHO Global Traditional Medicine Centre, World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, 1211Geneva, Switzerland.
Rudi EggersIntegrated Health Services Department, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Shyama KuruvillaWHO Global Traditional Medicine Centre, World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, 1211Geneva, Switzerland.
Yachan LiWHO Global Traditional Medicine Centre, World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, 1211Geneva, Switzerland.
Qin LiuWHO Global Traditional Medicine Centre, World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, 1211Geneva, Switzerland.
Yunhui ShenWHO Global Traditional Medicine Centre, World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, 1211Geneva, Switzerland.
Sungchol KimWHO Global Traditional Medicine Centre, World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, 1211Geneva, Switzerland.

Funding

World Health Organization 001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Traditional medicine is used across the world and is deeply rooted in culture, history and local practices. The World Health Organization (WHO)

Indexed as

Global HealthHealth PolicyMedicine, TraditionalWorld Health OrganizationComplementary TherapiesHumansIntegrative Medicine

Identifiers

PMID41180270
PMCPMC12578523

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