Complementary medicine: international experience of functioning and specific features of the application in Ukraine.

Objective: Introduction: Finding an optimal model for the development and functioning of the health care system is an important aspect for most economically developed countries. The aim of this article is to comprehensively study the problems of functioning of complementary (alternative) medicine, to identify the main tendencies of its development in some foreign countries and specific features of its application in Ukraine.

Patients And Methods: Materials and methods: During the research the authors have used theoretical methods (analysis, synthesis, generalization, systematization, etc.