OBJECTIVE The service type offered by a home care agency contracted by the Queensland government is not based on the qualifications of the worker providing the service, but the service itself. This allows agencies to substitute certain levels and categories of labour in order to provide a service to meet their contract obligations. This study investigated evidence of labour substitution between...

Instruction -Allied health Cardiopulmonary science $ 418,174 $ 279,116 $ 19,456 $ 89,754 $ 8,180 $ 18,668 $ 3,000 Child and family services 552,505 376,566 32,029 125,474 2,368 16,068 Communication disorders 979,359 537,795 103,973 193,067 12,378 131,447 699 Occupational therapy 564,624 385,498 33,976 122,160 4,344 18,646 Physical therapy 762,755 486,231 49,573 16...

The Australian health care industry prior to the 1990s was notable for its relative stability and uniformity in relation to organisational design. Since then, new organisational designs have proliferated and a diversity of approaches is evident. The new fluidity in organisational design is particularly evident amongst the allied health professions. The aim of this paper is two-fold. Firstly, to...

The aim of this study was to identify what outcome measures or quality indicators are being used to evaluate advanced and new roles in nine allied health professions and whether the measures are evaluating outcomes of interest to the patient, the clinician, or the healthcare provider. A systematic search strategy was used. Medical and allied health databases were searched and relevant articles ...

*Department of Veterinary Biosciences, University of Illinois, College of Veterinary Medicine, Urbana, IL; Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nursing and Allied Health, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL; Livestock Disease and Diagnostic Center, College of Agriculture, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY; Department of Large Animal Clinics, College of Veterinary...

PURPOSE Recent evidence suggests that occupational standing is not independently associated with health outcomes when occupations are ranked using socioeconomic criteria. In this study we ask two questions. First, is occupational standing associated with health outcomes when health-related criteria are used to establish the relative standing of occupations? Second, are job characteristics more ...

Nutritional genomics offers great promise to personal health management based on the understanding of the relationship between diet, gene expression and health outcomes. Our readiness to deliver nutrigenetic-based nutrition education has been slow due to the complexity of gene-nutrient interaction and interplays between many disciplines such as genetics, nutrition, biostatistics, sociology, law...

There is currently no strong evidence regarding the most effective training approach for allied health professionals that will support them to consistently apply the best research evidence in daily practice. Current evidence-based practice training tends to be 'one size fits all', and is unlikely to be appropriate for all allied health disciplines because of the variability in their tasks and s...