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Asmita Patel
Asmita Patel
PhD (Public Health)
Poster Presentation:
Poster Presentation:
Naturopathic graduates’ views on integrating naturopathy within mainstream primary health care:
Study aims: To identify the views of naturopathic graduates regarding the integration of naturopathy within mainstream primary health care to support the health and wellbeing of New Zealanders.
The research presented in this poster qualitatively explored graduate naturopaths’ views regarding conditions and symptoms that could benefit from integrative health care. This included examples of how specific naturopathic principles of practice, including the utilisation of herbal medicine could provide holistic additional support.
Learning Outcomes:
To gain an understanding of naturopathic graduates’ views regarding the integration of naturopathy with mainstream primary health care/biomedicine (as these graduates will help shape the future of naturopathic practice in New Zealand)
To identify conditions and symptoms that naturopathic graduates perceive can benefit from integrative health care (i.e., integration of naturopathy with biomedicine).
To identify naturopathic graduates’ suggestions on how to integrate naturopathy with mainstream primary health care/biomedicine.
Published:
Patel, A., Carruthers, R., & Smith, S.D. (2025) Why individuals studied naturopathy and what they hoped to contribute as naturopaths: a New Zealand study. Advances in Integrative Medicine, 12(2), 100475. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aimed.2025.03.005
Bio:
Bio:
Dr Patel earned her PhD in public health from Auckland University of Technology.
She has held research positions at several tertiary institutions in the Auckland region. She has worked on a wide-range of health-related studies.
She is currently Research Manager at South Pacific College of Natural Medicine (SPCNM), where she is also a guest lecturer on the Foundations of Research paper. Since 2013, Dr Patel has conducted original research studies across traditional Chinese medicine, naturopathy, and herbal medicine, as well as in physical activity, prostate cancer and gerontology.
She has a publication track record and has published her research (including naturopathic research) in peer-reviewed international and domestic journals. In 2025, she became an Editorial Board Member for the Australian Journal of Herbal and Naturopathic Medicine (AJHNM).
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