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Make the most of your contribution to health care delivery!
Allied Health: Practice Issues and Trends in the New Millennium is a comprehensive look at present and future concerns in the allied health care field. Leading experts in allied health practice and education address practice and policy issues that have developed as technology and a changing health care environment have created new and expanded roles for allied heath professionals. With the allied health field projected to add an estimated four million new jobs by 2005 in the United States alone, this book is an essential resource for maximizing the knowledge and skills necessary to deliver safe, efficient, effective, and equitable care.
Allied Health: Practice Issues and Trends in the New Millennium presents an overview of the concerns facing the largest and most diverse pool of health workers in the United States as they provide disease detection, prevention, dietary, health promotion, rehabilitation and health management services at all levels of health care delivery. This unique book addresses critical issues that affect allied health practice, including managed health care, computer technology, drug information, and demographic trends in society, with an emphasis on implications for education. The book also includes appendices listing allied health organizations, accrediting agencies, and descriptions of federally recognized allied health professions.
Allied Health: Practice Issues and Trends in the New Millennium presents information on:
public policy
research needs
new directions for accreditation
interprofessional collaborative alliances
employment opportunities
practice directions
and much more!
Allied health professionals play a critical role in health care delivery, comprising a significant portion of the health care work force with tremendous potential for addressing issues of health care cost, quality, and access within the health care system. Allied Health: Practice Issues and Trends in the New Millennium is an essential resource for the future of health care in the United States and a must read for allied health care educators and students, and health care policymakers.
Contents
About the Editors
Contributors
Preface
Chapter 1. Historical Overview: Evolution of the Allied Health Professions
Introduction
The Changing Medical Paradigm
Toward a Definition of Allied Health
The Evolving U.S. Health Care System
The Evolving Role of Education and Standards for the Allied Health Professions
A New Majority in the Health Professions
Toward Recognition of the Allied Health Professions
Summary
Chapter 2. Role of the Federal Government in Allied Health Education
The Nebraska Story: A Case Study
The Federal Government and Health Professions Education
Program Examples
Conclusion
Chapter 3. Primary Health Care
Introduction
Case Study
Primary Care Definition
Major Specialties That Interact with Primary Care
Who Practices Primary Care?
Controversies and Conceptual/Systemic Flaws
Summary and Future Considerations
Chapter 4. Rehabilitative and Restorative Therapies
History of the Development of Rehabilitative and Restorative Therapies
How Teams Work Together
The Role of Research
Chapter 5. Health Care Management
Health Management Defined
Health Care Management Organizational Structure
Health Care Management Functions
Meeting the Challenge
Chapter 6. Chemical and Dietary Therapies
Case Study of Testimonials of Efficacy of Certain Therapies
Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Dietary Supplements
Facts About Food
Summary
Chapter 7. Diagnostic Services
Multidisciplinary Health Care Team
Case Study
Factors in Selecting Laboratory Tests
Laboratory and Other Diagnostic Procedures
Chapter 8. Psychosocial Interaction and Its Therapeutic Impact on Patients' Physical and Mental Health: Implications for Health Care Providers
Introduction
Technical Competence versus People Skills
Definition of Health
Psychosocial Therapies
Expectations from a Successful Health Care Provider
Health Workers and Stress
How to Handle Stress
Health Workers As Care Providers, Leaders, and Managers
Chapter 9. Interdisciplinary and Community-Based Health Care
Interdisciplinary Behavioral Approaches
Behavioral Services in Hospitals
The Case of Jason
Depression in Primary Care
Community Health Services
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Treatments
Chapter 10. Demographic and Health Trends in the Twenty-First Century
Aging Population
Racial and Ethnic Diversity
Poverty and Underserved Populations
Changes in the Family Structure
Demographic Changes and the Allied Health Professions
Chapter 11. New Directions for Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs
Part I: Overview of Accreditation
Part II: Accreditation in Allied Health
Part III: Issues in Allied Health Education
Part IV: New Directions
Conclusion
Chapter 12. Allied Health Education in a Global Community
Introduction
Overview of Race and Origin of the U.S. Population
Cultural Competence in a Global Community
Trends Shaping Use of Complementary and Alternative Approaches
Implications for Education and Practice
Summary
Chapter 13. Genomics, Proteomics, and Allied Health
Introduction
Overview
Role of Genetics in Health Care
Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues
Pharmacogenomics
Conclusion
Chapter 14. Interprofessional Collaborative Alliances
Introduction
Definition of Terms
Need for Collaboration
Case Example
Barriers Related to Interprofessional Work
Interprofessional Alliance Model
Case Example: Interprofessional Alliance Model
Summary
Chapter 15. Impact of Technology on Allied Health Education
Case Study
Familiarity with Technology
Preservice Technology Preparation of Allied Health Practitio
