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ArticleBulletin of the World Health Organization2025

Workforce, regulation and capacity needed for integration of traditional medicine.

Vivian Lin, Rachel Canaway, Anne-Louise Carlton, Nadine Ijaz, Gupteswar Patel, Natewinde Sawadogo, Hongguo Rong, Kabir Sheikh

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Article in Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Vivian LinFaculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
Rachel CanawayDepartment of General Practice & Primary Care, Level 4, Medical Building North Wing, Grattan St, University of Melbourne, 3010, Victoria, Australia.
Anne-Louise CarltonSchool of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
Nadine IjazDepartment of Law and Legal Studies, Carlton University, Ottawa, Canada.
Gupteswar PatelSchool of Health and Care Sciences, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, England.
Natewinde SawadogoInstitut Universitaire de Formations Initiale et Continue, Université Thomas Sankara, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
Hongguo RongCentre for Evidence-Based Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China.
Kabir SheikhGlobal Business School for Health, Faculty of Population Health Sciences, University College London, London, England.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The widespread use of traditional, complementary and integrative medicines (traditional medicine) across the world suggests that integration of traditional medicine into the formal health system is one strategy for extending universal health coverage (UHC). To improve access to and the quality of traditional medicine services will require attention to strengthening the traditional medicine workforce. The challenges associated with making such improvements should not be underestimated due to the many different practices, service delivery models and education systems for traditional medicine, as well as relevant policy and governance frameworks. Countries have adopted varying strategies to integrate traditional medicine into health systems to date. We consider how to strengthen and build capacity of the traditional medicine workforce so it might better contribute to the UHC agenda. We examine key issues and challenges for traditional medicine, and suggest analytical models for understanding the complexity inherent to integration of traditional medicine and making sense of different components of the traditional medicine workforce.

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Health WorkforceIntegrative MedicineMedicine, TraditionalDelivery of Health CareHumansUniversal Health Insurance

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PMID41328207
PMCPMC12665273

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