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Attitudes Of Western, Conventionally Trained Physicians Toward Integrative Medicine In Kenya: A Descriptive Correlational Study, Heather L. Hall Aug 2015

Attitudes Of Western, Conventionally Trained Physicians Toward Integrative Medicine In Kenya: A Descriptive Correlational Study, Heather L. Hall

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The 2007 policy draft of Kenya’s National Coordinating Agency for Population and Development (NCAPD) states that the primary source of health care for more than two-thirds of Kenya’s population is traditional medicine (as cited in NCAPD, 2008). The World Health Organization (WHO) (2013) suggests there should be an integration of TM into systems of national health care to increase health care access. Integrative medicine (IM) involves the integration of therapies from both alternative and mainstream medicine (Integrative medicine, 2014). Little is known about the attitudes of Western, conventionally trained physicians toward IM in a non-Western setting. The purposes of this …