These policy statements on Education, Research, Licensure and Certification, Access and Delivery of Care, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Partnerships, and Public Policy Advocacy are intended as recommendations and guidelines for allied, predoctoral, and postdoctoral dental education institutions, programs, and personnel. When used in this document, “dental education” refers to all asp...

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...

Precise, accurate and clear writing is essential for communicating in health sciences, as publication is an important component in the university criteria for academic promotion and in obtaining funding to support research. In spite of this, the development of writing skills is a subject infrequently included in the curricula of faculties of medicine and allied health sciences. Therefore clinic...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the level of awareness of the occupational therapy profession among final-year health sciences students at Kuwait University. METHODS This study utilized a survey targeting final-year students in the Health Sciences Center at Kuwait University schools of medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, and allied health sciences. The survey addressed awareness of occupational therapy, ...

background: although many countries had improvement in heath system in last twenty years but expense of research and its difficulties does not allow managers to solve their problems by doing research. if we accept that biostatistics is one of the scientific tools for research, we imply that in all domains of health system research applying statistical techniques is essential. this study was per...

OBJECTIVES The study involved Nigerian soldiers engaged in peacekeeping missions in Liberia and Yugoslavia. Using case illustrations, the study sought to describe patterns of homicidal violence among soldiers from the same country or soldiers from allied forces, and to suggest possible reasons for the attacks. DESIGN AND SETTING Nigeria was actively involved in peacekeeping missions in Liberi...

This paper focuses on the main problems that authors of rejected papers have had in their submissions to Pediatric Pulmonology over the past 5 years or so. It is intended as a teaching tool for residents, fellows, allied health personnel, practicing physicians and even some academic physicians who need a refresher on what goes wrong and how they may avoid rejection of their labor. The approach ...

OBJECTIVE To describe models used for the training of labour ward personnel in acute obstetric emergencies and to describe how these models have been evaluated and compared. DESIGN A systematic review of the following databases: Medline, the Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Embase, PsycLit, Allied and Alternative Medicine, Education Resources Information Center and th...

introduction: given the importance of spirituality and health as well as activities done by hospital personnel, the aim of present study is to evaluate the relationship between spirituality and general health and to assess some possible affecting factors such as demographic and work factors on these variables in hospital staff. materials and methods: this cross-sectional study was done on hospi...