Naturopathy works, too, flagstaff.

See “The role of the prosthetics and naturopathy centre in health care”, p. 3, a working paper submitted by the Prosthetics and Naturopathy Centre to the First Regional Conference on Disability held by the Arab Institute for Human Rights, Sana`a, 11-13 October 2002.

The policies and work plans in the Tenth Plan include: extension of essential health services; developing Ayurved, naturopathy services, and traditional healing systems like homeopathy, and Yunani as the supplementary health service; management, and decentralization of the health sector; special health service to control communicable, and non-communicable diseases; disseminating system; partnership/participation of the Government, non-government, and private sectors and reproductive health services.

A number of States mentioned additional services or settings not specifically mentioned in the questionnaire, such as brief population-based interventions (Australia), work with street children through community institutions (Chile), acupuncture, yoga and naturopathy (India), consultation services by narcotic control officers (Japan and Zambia), civil society and non-governmental organizations (Mozambique), community approaches (Myanmar), faith/religious assistance/therapy (Palau, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, the United States of America, and Venezuela), naltrexone (Singapore), outreach (Sri Lanka), health promotion (Swaziland), poison control centres (Tunisia) and private clinics (Uzbekistan).

The strategies in the Tenth Plan include: increasing investment to provide essential health service to the poor and the backward communities; developing Ayurved, naturopathy services and traditional healing systems like homeopathy, and Yunani as the supplementary health service by promoting local medicinal herbs and enhancing skills and expertise; decentralizing the health services according to The Local Self-Governance Act, 1999; enhancing access to essential health services in rural and remote areas through special services such as safe motherhood, reproductive health, child health, nutrition, tuberculosis, kala-zar (typhus), malaria, Japanese encephalitis, and other communicable diseases; providing basic health services from the local and central level institutions, governmental, non-governmental, and private health institutions; managing the human, financial and physical resources by improving the quality of health services provided by the collaboration of the Government, private and non-government sectors; reducing maternal, and child mortality by launching reproductive health programmes and family planning service (Tenth Plan, p. 477).