LIn, Vivian;
Canaway, Rachel;
Carlton, Anne-Louise;
Ijaz, Nadine;
Sawadogo, Natewinde;
Patel, Gupteswar;
Rong, Hongguo;
(2025)
Workforce, regulation and capacity needed for integration of
traditional medicine.
Bulletin of the World Health Organization
, 103
(12)
pp. 814-822.
10.2471/blt.25.293560.
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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 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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Workforce, regulation and capacity needed for integration of traditional medicine |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.2471/blt.25.293560 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.2471/blt.25.293560 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2025 The authors; licensee World Health Organization. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution IGO License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/legalcode), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. In any reproduction of this article there should not be any suggestion that WHO or this article endorse any specific organization or products. The use of the WHO logo is not permitted. This notice should be preserved along with the article’s original URL. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10217116 |
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