Informing UK policy development on the regulation of CAM practitioners: Lessons from Hong Kong?

Social Policy and Administration

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 711-728

  Dixon, Anna ^a   Peckham, Stephen ^b   Ho, Amy Po Ying ^c  

^a KING S FUND   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Complementary and alternative medicine; Hong Kong; Profession; Regulation; UK

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH POLICY; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; SERVICE PROVISION; STANDARD (REGULATION);

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; EUROPE; FAR EAST; HONG KONG; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 36549006519     PISSN: 01445596     EISSN: 14679515     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9515.2007.00581.x     Document Type: Article

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