That WHO report authored by a large group of naturopaths and other traditional medicine specialists cites this 2001 UCSF Profile of a profession for that statement The relevant statement is found at the foot of page 8 In turn those sources were Finken D 1986 Naturopathy America s homegrown alternative healing art Medical Self Care 39 43 November December 1986 Baer HA 1992 The potential rejuvenation of American naturopathy as a consequence of the holistic health movement Medical Anthropology 13 369 383 Gort EH and Coburn D 1988 Naturopathy in Canada Changing relationships to medicine chiropractic and the state Social Science in Medicine 16 10 1061 1072 Canadian Naturopathic Association 1999 Questions Answers about Naturopathic Medicine Available Accessed December 5 2000 One may note that none of these source statements refer to anything but North America Either the Benchmarks for Training in Naturopathy neglected to cite a source or the generalization to many parts of the world is a primary assertion in Benchmarks