世界针灸杂志（英文版）2026，Vol.36Issue(3)：253-258,6.DOI:10.1016/j.wjam.2026.06.007
针灸卫生经济学:挑战与对策
The health economics of acupuncture:Challenges and countermeasures
摘要
Abstract
Health economics evaluations of acupuncture are important and play important roles in patient decision-making,clinical decision-making,standardization of clinical practice guidelines,and policy formulation.However,these evaluations are complicated.Evaluating the cost of acupuncture is highly challenging due to substantial institutional labor heterogeneity and the complexities of valuing patient-incurred indirect costs.Also,Acupuncture outcome measurement is heavily constrained by high clinical efficacy hetero-geneity and a critical lack of standardized evaluation methodologies.Furthermore,the advancement of acupuncture health economics is persistently hindered by resistant professional attitudes among prac-titioners and a severe scarcity of interdisciplinary expertise.From the perspective of health economics,this paper discusses several methods to reduce the cost of acupuncture,such as the use of disposable acupuncture needles,the selection of specific acupuncture therapy methods,the establishment of more appropriate doses of acupuncture,the appropriate application of acupuncture to specific diseases and/or stages of diseases,and the screening of good acupuncture"responders."Nevertheless,professionals with expertise in the health economics of acupuncture are limited,and more experts should be recruited.关键词
Acupuncture/Health economics/Cost-effectiveness/Clinical practice guidelines/Medical decision-makingKey words
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徐治,孙鹏,陈超..针灸卫生经济学:挑战与对策[J].世界针灸杂志（英文版）,2026,36(3):253-258,6.基金项目
The project is supported by the basic scientific research ex-penses of the central public welfare scientific research institutes at the Institute of Basic Theory for Chinese Medicine,China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences:YZ202020.The funding had no role in the design of the study （）
the collection,analysis,and interpretation of the data （）
or the writing of the manuscript. （）
