Regulation Complementary Medical Practitioners

Authors: Anna Dixon © KING’S FUND 2008

In this report the experience of 16 countries in regards to this issue are reviewed:
Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Ghana, Hong Kong SAR, India, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, Socialist Republic of Vietnam, South Africa, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK), United States of America (USA).
Throughout, three domains of regulation are analysed: practice; education and training; licensing and registration of practitioners of traditional/complementary medicine.

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