background and aims: the most important risk factors threatening health of young people include improper diet, inactivity, smoking, intentional and accidental damages, drugs, aids/hiv and psychiatric disorders. considering increased risky behaviors among teens during 2 last decades, it was decided to evaluate the effects of education and consultation roles in relation to health risks on perform...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to identify key factors affecting research capacity and engagement of allied health professionals working in a large metropolitan health service. Identifying such factors will assist in determining strategies for building research capacity in allied health. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 276 allied health professionals working within the Sydney Local Heal...

OBJECTIVE To critically examine utilisation of the 13 allied health services provided through Medicare Chronic Disease Management program and related general practitioner (GP) care planning initiatives. METHODS Statistics generated from national billing data from July 2005 to June 2009 were extracted from Medicare data and compared by profession, State or Territory and population. RESULTS M...

1 Department of Preventive Medicine, Kitasato University School of Medicine 2 Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kitasato University 3 Department of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine 4 Hirosaki University Graduate School of Health Sciences 5 Department of Public Health, Kitasato University School of Allied Health Sciences 6 Department of Physiolo...

OBJECTIVES To examine the uptake by general practitioners (GPs) of the five key components of the Better Outcomes in Mental Health Care (BOiMHC) initiative: education and training for GPs; the three-step mental health process; focussed psychological strategies; access to allied health services; and access to psychiatrist support. SETTING All Australian states and territories during the first ...

PURPOSE Allied health workforce recruitment and retention in remote areas is a global problem. Using case studies from the Australian allied health workforce, this paper adds new information by combining personality trait information with a detailed understanding of how the cases construe the demands of remote work, which may be useful in addressing this problem. METHODS Four cases (two urban...

BACKGROUND This study sought to determine whether early allied health intervention by a dedicated Emergency Department (ED) based team, occurring before or in parallel with medical assessment, reduces hospital admission rates amongst older patients presenting with one of ten index problems. METHODS A prospective non-randomized trial in patients aged sixty five and over, conducted in two Austr...

P3 Medial longitudinal arch development of school children Jasper W.K. Tong, Veni P. Kong Allied Health Specialties, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore; Physical Education and Sports Science Academic Group, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Correspondence: Jasper W.K. Tong Allied Health Specialties, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singap...

Allied health services benefit the management of many chronic diseases. The effects of health insurance on the utilisation of allied health services has not yet been established despite health insurance frequently being identified as a factor promoting utilisation of medical and hospital services among people with chronic disease. The objective of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to...