Page Structure Ok looking at the possibility of expanding this page I think there s structural things which may need to happen International Focus Most sections describing naturopathy and even many of the criticisms are based on north american naturopathic practice As education practice and regulation can vary quite considerably from country to country I m recommending that at the very least the Practitioners section which could include education and professional bodies be laid out in a similar manner to the regulation section As for methods there are some things I know Naturopaths in Australia either can t do legally such as Acupuncture or Chinese medicine which are now both regulated or aren t generally trained to do I think the only greatly controversial thing in BHsc Nat is iridology which just takes up one unit The other thing I ve noticed on some pages is the reception listed by country and I m also wondering where private health rebates fit in Is that a regulation issue Criticisms and Controversies I think this could well be made into a section on its own the criticisms particular to north american naturopathic practice already have enough to fill one subheading as does cancer vaccines safety of treatments the claims of lack of scientific basis the issues surrounding unlicensed or unqualified practitioners a big one in Australia I don t think much of this belongs in other sections which should be a neutral description of the history and modality especially when many of the criticisms don t apply to all naturopaths Most of these issues should also have links to more in depth pages surrounding those issues I ve added a link for vaccines and I know there are well written pages for others Alternative Cancer Treatments and List of herbs with known adverse effects are two pages which seem quite comprehensive with a fair degree of scientific rigour Diagnosis I m wondering if this should have a section of it s own or whether it should be regionalised It could come partly under criticisms and controversies and it could also come under a larger heading of the relationships between naturopaths and other medical professionals In my course we are actively discouraged from making diagnoses knowing when to refer to a gp or specialist can be a matter of life and death at times and can require insistence especially as many natural health clients are somewhat cautious of their local gp This is also the other side the correlation surrounding low vaccination rates in natural health clients and other untreated illnesses although I m not sure where it should fit in Reception I ve noticed this on other natural health pages and I m wondering if this should have a separate section in terms of reception and utilisation by the public and acceptance or lack thereof by governments and medical authorities This is another thing which makes me wonder whether it would be better to split most of the article into countries and contain education practitioners methods regulation and reception under each of those Leaving the introduction history criticisms controversies as the only standalone sections Anyway some of these points sort of spilled into each other so I hope it s easy enough to see what I m getting at I m already collecting a considerable amount of solid references for Australian Naturopathy and a few for Europe I m wondering do I post links here in talk so they can be discussed before use in the main page