Looking for a Person-Centered Medicine: Non Conventional Medicine in the Conventional European and Italian Setting

Table 1

Results of most recent research in Italy

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ISTAT (Italian National Institute for Statistics) (1996–99): 9 million (15.5%)

ABACUS (Institute for Marketing Research and Opinion Surveys) (2003): 30% population

DOXA (Institute for Statistics Research and Public Opinion Analyses) (2003): 23% population

ISPO Research Institute (2003): 65% familiar with the term NCM/CAM and know about them

FORMAT (Institute for Marketing Research) (2003): 31.7% use NCM/CAM at least once; 23.4% use NCM/CAM regularly

CENSIS (Centre for Social Researches) (2003): ~50% consider NCM/CAM useful; >70% ask for National Health System reimbursement; 65% want more control by national health authorities

Menniti-Ippolito et al. [21]: 3 year follow-up of 52 332 families (140 011 people), use of NCM/CAM by Italian population: 15.6% (homeopathy 8.2%, manual therapies 7.0%, phytotherapy 4.8%, acupuncture 2.9% and other NCM/CAM 1.3%)

ISTAT (Italian National Institute for Statistics) (2005): 8 million (13.6%) population

EURISPES (Institute for Political, Economical and Social Studies) (Rapporto Italia 2006): 11 million use homeopathic medicine

CENSIS (Centre for Social Researches) (2008): 23.4% have used NCM/CAM during the previous year (especially homeopathy and phytotherapy)

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