The Australian Complementary Medicine Workforce: A Profile of 1,306 Practitioners from the PRACI Study

Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 385-394

  Steel, Amie ^a,b   Leach, Matthew ^b,c   Wardle, Jon ^b   Sibbritt, David ^b   Schloss, Janet ^a   DIezel, Helene ^a   Adams, Jon ^a  

^a Endeavour College of Natural Health (Brisbane)   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

complementary therapies; health workforce; personnel

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANALGESIA; AROMATHERAPY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIAN; AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY; AYURVEDA; BODY WEIGHT; CHINESE MEDICINE; CHIROPRACTOR; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; COUNSELOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GERONTOLOGY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SURVEY; HERBAL MEDICINE; HOMEOPATHY; HUMAN; KINESIOLOGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASSAGE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NEW SOUTH WALES; NORTHERN TERRITORY; NUTRITION; PHYSICIAN; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUEENSLAND; REFLEXOLOGY; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA; TRADITIONAL HEALER; VICTORIA; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WORK ENGAGEMENT; YOGA; AUSTRALIA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 85045850000     PISSN: 10755535     EISSN: 15577708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/acm.2017.0206     Document Type: Article

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