normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 introduction: organizations planned in-service trainings for updating of personnel’s information. icdl (international computer driving license) is one of the most important trainings. the purpose of this research is evaluation the some aspects of icdl in-service trainings from the viewpoints of administrators and personnel...

The future allied health workforce needs to be flexible to meet the needs of an ageing population with increasing chronic health care needs and geographically dispersed populations in many developed countries. Existing research shows the maldistribution of the Australian health workforce, with allied health professionals being poorly represented in rural and remote areas. This mixed-methods lon...

Nursing Standard is published during PHE’s week of action, held to promote and celebrate the contribution of nurses, midwives and allied health professionals as ‘health-promoting practitioners’. This will be followed next Tuesday by PHE’s annual nursing conference, where the Framework for Personalised Care and Population Health will be published. The title reveals the challenge: providing perso...

Background While evidence-based practice is a familiar concept to allied health clinicians, knowledge translation (KT) is less well known and understood. The need for a framework that enables allied health clinicians to access and engage with KT was identified. The aim of this paper is to describe the development of the Translating Allied Health Knowledge (TAHK) Framework.   M...

Kinesiology departments have recently started to offer allied health education programs to attract additional students to teacher education units (9). Although allied health professions offer increased work opportunities, insufficient enrollment and training of minority students in these academic fields contribute to underrepresentation in the workforce (3). To improve workforce diversity, kine...

BACKGROUND An economic evaluation of interventions for older people requires accurate assessment of costing and consideration of both acute and long-term services. Accurate information on the unit cost of allied health and community services is not readily available in Australia however. This systematic review therefore aims to synthesise information available in the literature on the unit cost...

conclusions these findings indicate relatively high prevalence rate of ha infection among nurses and paramedical personnel at this hospital. nevertheless, 30% of the health workers have been seronegative and are still at risk of ha infection development. considering that the disease has more severe course as age increases, improvement of standard hygiene and prevention strategies are recommende...

True integration requires a shift in all levels of medical and allied health education; one that emphasizes team learning, practicing, and evaluating from the beginning of each students' educational experience whether that is as physician, nurse, psychologist, or any other health profession. Integration of healthcare services will not occur until medical education focuses, like the human body, ...