Rojas-Rojas Alejandra
Superintendencia Nacional de Salud, Bogotá, Colombia.
Rev Salud Publica (Bogota). 2012 Jun;14(3):470-7.
This study's overall objective was to identify the supply and distribution of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) services at departmental level and the concentration of CAM service supply in Colombia.
The information was obtained from the special list of CAM providers published on the Colombian Ministry of Social Protection (Ministerio de Protección Social) web-site in July 2010.
Bogotá was the city having the greatest concentration of CAM health-service providers, followed by the departments of Antioquia, Valle del Cauca, Cauca and Cundinamarca, with their respective capitals, and that the type of alternative medicine-therapy being provided differed very little.
Many towns/municipalities in Colombia still lack a record of CAM service providers, meaning that health practitioners specialising in this kind of medicine have great opportunities for providing their services in many parts of the country; likewise, there is a whole field waiting for CAM services to be developed in outpatient and intra-hospital settings different to low-complexity external consultancy.
本研究的总体目标是确定哥伦比亚各部门层面补充和替代医学（CAM）服务的供应与分布情况，以及CAM服务供应的集中程度。
信息取自2010年7月在哥伦比亚社会保护部网站上公布的CAM服务提供者特别名单。
波哥大是CAM健康服务提供者最为集中的城市，其次是安蒂奥基亚省、考卡山谷省、考卡省和昆迪纳马卡省及其各自的省会城市，且所提供的替代医学疗法类型差异很小。
哥伦比亚许多城镇/市仍缺乏CAM服务提供者的记录，这意味着专门从事此类医学的健康从业者在该国许多地区有很大的服务提供机会；同样，在与低复杂性外部咨询不同的门诊和医院内部环境中，还有一整个领域等待CAM服务的开发。
