What Is Essential in the Essential Health Benefits? And Will Occupational Therapy Benefit?

Habilitative services: an essential health benefit and an opportunity for occupational therapy practitioners and consumers.

Daniel Brown, JD, is Senior State Policy Analyst, American Occupational Therapy Association, 4720 Montgomery Lane, Bethesda, MD 20814; dbrown@aota. org Brown, D. (2014). Health Policy Perspectives—Habilitative services: An essential health benefit and an opportunity for occupational therapy practitioners and consumers. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 68, 130–138. http:// dx.doi.org/10...

Is reporting race and ethnicity essential to occupational therapy evidence?

Charles Ellis, Jr., PhD, CCC-SLP, is Associate Professor, Department of Health Sciences and Research, College of Health Professions, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston. In 2017, the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) will reach its centennial. As the profession moves toward this momentous milestone, a new vision for occupational therapy has emerged. AOTA’s Centennial...

Needling toward essential health benefits.

What is essential tremor?

Classic essential tremor is a clinical syndrome of action tremor in the upper limbs (at least 95 % of patients) and less commonly the head, face/jaw, voice, tongue, trunk, and lower limbs, in the absence of other neurologic signs. However, the longstanding notion that essential tremor is a monosymptomatic tremor disorder is being challenged by a growing literature describing associated disturba...

What is the essential neurological examination?

In order to determine which aspects would be essential to the neurological examination (NE) in a given specific situation (a patient referred with a potential neurological complaint, but the history suggests that a neurological problem is unlikely), we presented the same questionnaire used by Moore and Chalk in Canada to 19 neurologists in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. We considered significant aspec...