Naturopaths in Ontario, Canada: geographic patterns in intermediately-sized metropolitan areas and integration implications.

The article presents a study aimed to analyze the relationship between complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and conventional medicine (CM) in consideration with integration opportunities. The study is undertaken through the use of nearest neighbour and local spatial autocorrelation statistical that analyses and surveys directed towards Doctors of Naturopathic Medicine (NDs). The results of the study show that NDs were strongly in favour for greater integration with the CM sector.