Glynis Fox

Osteopathic health care is for every person, for all ages and stages of life. Osteopathic care is backed by high standards of training and knowledge. It is delivered safely to achieve beneficial outcomes and address many difficult health conditions that have become common today.

Osteopathic healthcare is a person-centered approach focused on maintaining and improving over-all health. Osteopathic professionals regard the body as an integrated whole, addressing prevention, diagnosis and treatment aimed at restoring and maintaining health.

Osteopathic professionals are providing osteopathic care worldwide in 46 countries. More and more people are seeking and gaining access to osteopathic care. The OIA is aligned with the WHO’s mission to improve health and ensure universal health coverage.

OIA's goal is to improve patient safety and the quality of osteopathic care internationally via high standards of education & regulation. There are two int'l standards for training: the WHO Benchmarks (2010) and the European Standard on Osteopathic Healthcare Provision (2015).

There are more than 200,000 osteopaths and osteopathic physicians around the world. In addition to individual health care, they provide advice across many sectors, including government, sports, occupational health, education, rehabilitation, etc. oialliance.org/wp-content/up…