Social Health Science Research

A major role of ACCMER is to research the use and understanding of complementary medicine by the Australian population in general and by health professionals in particular. Complementary medicines can potentially interact with conventional medications, leading to serious consequences such as potentiation of bleeding. ACCMER has embarked on utilisation surveys of the general population aimed at providing essential data that will enable risks such as these to be quantified and preventative measures to be devised.

Other social science research undertaken by ACCMER includes needs analysis of health professions regarding education requirements for complementary medicine and socio-cultural mapping of the complementary medicine professions.