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In Italy the different regional healthcare models are structured, in order to provide both a single theoretical framework and to enable direct comparisons. In this paper we examine whether and how the regional healthcare systems include alternative medicines and, if so, whether this can be specifically attributed to the different organisational models in place. This analysis will be preceded by a framework to show how in Italy there is a constant and continuous increase in non-conventional medicine (NCM), determined from a research by citizens of a person-centred medicine and preventive. We shall examine how NCM has been incorporated in the National Health System (SSN) in Italy, from the time the Regional Health Systems were set up, and the factors that have contributed to their inclusion or exclusion. After a brief synopsis of the process of growth, distribution and recognition of NCM in Italy, we shall describe how it has been incorporated and consolidated in the regional healthcare systems.

How migrant families are put together and the forms they take varies with the cultural\ud and social origins, though also with the family’s migratory strategy, the sociocultural\ud context of the host country and the latter’s chosen migration policy. Exploratory\ud fieldwork in an Italian area led us to adopt a combined analytical framework in\ud studying such families, bearing in mind both the theory of civic stratification and the\ud transnational perspective of migratory processes. In the first part of the article, we shall\ud explore certain implications of transnationalism and conclude that reunited families are\ud intrinsically transnational. In the second part, we shall apply the concept of civic\ud stratification to the study of family reunification. A third section will analyse some of\ud the results of our fieldwork, on which to validate the combined analytical approach. Our\ud contention is that a transnational perspective and civic stratification can be usefully\ud integrated and provide a new interpretive key to various aspects of family reunification

The presence of migrants as a phenomenon of globalization forces the various world health systems to face up to the problem of inequality penalising this population. Although new to immigration, Italy has seen an increase in immigrant health inequalities. Access to health services is a critical issue here.

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