STUDY OF REGIONAL PUBLIC RECORDS OF PERSONS EXERCISING UNCONVENTIONAL METHODS FOR BENEFICIAL EFFECTS ON INDIVIDUAL HEALTH
Journal Title: Българско списание за обществено здраве (Bulgarian Journal of Public Health) - Year 2015, Vol 0, Issue 2
Abstract
The article provides an overview on the basis of existing information on the websites of regional health inspectorates (RHIs), of registered persons offering legal services in unconventional healthcare system and human resources in the field of «unconventional» health. In the period 2008-2015, there was an increasing trend in the number of areas in which persons exercising unconventional methods for beneficial effects on individual health (UMBEIH) were registered. However, 10 years after the publication of the regulations in the country governing the application of non-conventional health services, the facts suggest that in almost one third of the areas in Bulgaria no single person is registered to exercise UMBEIH, and this is the situation in the districts like Sofia District, Pernik, Kyustendil, Blagoevgrad, covering the entire Southwest region of the country. Not only is a great number of areas lacking adequate provision of the population with legal practitioners suppliers of unconventional health services, but also insufficient is the number of registered persons exercising UMBEIH in RHIs in the country. By 31.12.2008 they were 130, by 15.09.2009 were 152, by 15.05.2010 - 166, by March 2015 - 274 of them prevailing are «doctors». In some RHIs in the country - Burgas, Veliko Tarnovo, Varna, Vratsa, Kardzhali, Ruse, Gabrovo, Lovech, Pazardzhik, Smolyan, Shumen, Pleven, Sliven, Stara Zagora, Haskovo, are observed violations in the registration of persons exercising UMBEIH. In our country ignorance is observed regarding the nature of particular UMBEIH by experts in RHIs, as well as the requirements for the creation of public registers in the area of «unconventional health.» Public records represent a database containing entries and circumstances required by law or other regulation. The lack of a modern and easily accessible public register of persons practicing UMBEIH creates serious inconvenience for citizens seeking unconventional health services. Such a register will facilitate citizens in the search for persons legally applying UMBEIH in different regions of the country and will protect them from persons applying these methods illegally, thus ensuring patient safety in the use of these services.
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Iliana Yaneva-Balabanska, Nadezhda Todorova
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