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Hydroglobe - definition of a global framework for hydrotherapy
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Angewandte Psychologie
Beschreibung
Millions of people around the world use hydrotherapy (HT). Suchwidespread use, especially in South America, East Asia and Africa, hasled to increased professional and public debate across the world on HT asa form of healthcare.In the main European Countries, HT training is incorporated into medicalcurricula and HT treatments are provided by national healthcare systems.However, commonly accepted definitions of HT therapies and productsare yet to be established.FEMTEC (www.femteconline.org) is one of the most representativemedical thermal HT associations, having been founded in 1937. It hasofficial working relations with the World Health Organization (WHO).Together, they develop programmes using natural resorts for therapy andhealth. FEMTEC is a co-promoter of the WHO-GARD (Global Allianceagainst Chronic Respiratory Diseases) international programme(www.who.int/respiratory/gard/en/). The Federation maintains closecontacts with international medical hydrology associations like ISMH(International Society of Medical Hydrology, www.ismh-direct.net),universities and ministries of health in different countries.FoRST (www.fondazioneforst.it ) is the Italian Foundation, established in2003, for scientific research on HT. It provides funding for scientificresearch in hydrology and balneotherapy. FoRST is practically the soleprovider of funding for research in this research area in Italy.FoRST recently redesigned its own system for evaluating scientificprojects. As such, to ensure funding goes to the best projects, the decision was taken to follow standard, internationally-recognized projectevaluation procedures using external experts as peer reviewers.Even if HT is growing and ever more widespread, there is still asignificant lack of data in this field, no list of the different types of HTand the definitions have not yet been finalized. In addition, the legal statusof these therapies and the training programmes vary drastically fromcountry to country. There is still no international assessment of the use ofthis kind of therapy.
