Key:medical system:*

Prefix medical_system:*
Description
A namespace for the medical system of a health care related facility, person, service, or amenity.
Group: health
Used on these elements
Requires
health_facility:type=* or health_person:type=* or health_amenity:*=* or health_service:*=*
Useful combination
health_specialty:*=* name=* operator=* phone=* website=* opening_hours=*
See also
Healthcare 2.0
Status: proposed
taginfo: medical_system:*

This page describes a key prefix rather than a simple key.

medical_system:*=yes/no

This key describes the medical system used by this object. If it has an international known name, then it should be used, otherwise the name of the country or region of the world, where it originated from should be used. The word “traditional”, which is mainly used when the medical system is exported to the outer world, should not be used in this place. The medical system must be always a traditional medical system which is or was used many centuries as the main system to treat people in this region or country of the world.

Usage conditions for medical_system:*=yes

1. The person who use an affecting medical system, was educated in a country/region, where this medical system has a long term historic and traditional base.
2. If the medical system is used in countries/regions where it is not originated from, e.g. imported from countries where it has a traditional base, then the knowledge base and quality of training of the persons who use it, must be comparable to the latest research in the originating countries. This usually means, that there is at least 20 years (one generation) of own ongoing medical research on a wider base and that there are at least some research facilities which give training in this medical system. The medical system is therefore in common use in this country and exists not only as a niche specialty.

If at least one of these conditions are not met, then the object falls under alternative medicine.

Explanation: It is common practice, that traditional medical systems are taught in crash courses in western countries, so the training is neither comparable in time nor in comprehensiveness and currentness. There exists also no up-to-date literature as there is no wider research base. This applies not to “exported” persons, who were trained in the originating countries, as the training was up-to-date on this time, and they can get and read the original literature.

Key	Value	Description
medical_system:ayurveeda	yes/no	Traditional native medical system of the Indian subcontinent.
medical_system:chinese		Traditional Chinese medical system.
medical_system:kampo		Traditional Japanese medical system.
medical_system:mongolian		Traditional Mongolian medical system.
medical_system:tibetan		Traditional Tibetan medical system.
medical_system:sidda		Traditional south Indian Tamil medical system.
medical_system:unani		Traditional Greeko-Islamic medical system, mainly used in South Asia.
medical_system:unknown		The used medical system of the object is not known.
medical_system:western		Western medical system used globally, now based on science.

But they have homeopathy on schema.org...

A few days ago I came across schema.org and found MedicineSystem as an obscure object class there. Is this class for medicinal systems or medical systems? If they mean medical system, why there are values for treatment theories e.g.“treat same things with the same” as for homeopathy, which is in this case also a medicinal theory, but for other (obscure) treatment theories (e.g. osteopathy or orthomolecular medicine) inside the western medical system this is not so clear, so there should be a class for (at least) treatment theories.