A critical public health examination of complementary self-medication in later life in indigenous, non-indigenous and CALD communities

该项目旨在对不受监管和“隐蔽”的健康和寻求治疗行为--晚年使用的补充性自我用药(CAM SM)--提供第一次深入协调的关键公共卫生检查。它将侧重于健康老龄化和患有慢性病的生活，并利用与土著、非土著以及文化和语言多样化(CALD)社区的实地工作。该项目旨在确定在以后的生活中使用“隐蔽的”CAM SM的挑战和可能性。它将提供一个证据基础，为澳大利亚老年人提供安全、有效的护理和政策，并产生新的分析，为关于晚年慢性病和社区健康的公共卫生学术提供重大进展和新方向。

This project aims to provide the first in-depth coordinated critical public health examination of an unregulated and 'covert' area of health and treatment seeking behaviour - complementary self-medication (CAM SM) use in later life. It will focus on healthy ageing and living with chronic illness and draw upon fieldwork with Indigenous, non-Indigenous and culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities. This project aims to identify the challenges of, and possibilities for, 'covert' CAM SM use in later life. It will provide an evidence-base to inform safe, effective care and policy for older Australians and generate novel analyses to provide significant advances and new directions for public health scholarship with regards to chronic illness and community health in later life.