A diverse range of services were developed in NSW in response to the emerging HIV epidemic. These services included innovative multidisciplinary service models of care most of which have been durable. Allied health teams and ancillary services funded by non-government organisations have played a vital role in delivering care and support in the community. A consistency of approach to treatment a...

2 The Role of Computed Tomography in Trans-catheter Aortic Valve Replacement Tammy Jones, Stephanie Lough. Faculty: Division of Radiation Science Technology Education, College of Allied Health Professions, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE According to the American Heart Association, aortic stenosis, which is the narrowing of the aortic valve opening, remains one of the most comm...

The allied health professions form approximately 18% of the health workforce in Australia and are well placed to contribute to future multidisciplinary models of health care. There are many reports describing the health workforce in Australia for the medical and nursing professions but there is very little information available about the nature of the allied health workforce. Recent studies hav...

Globally, nations are confronted with the challenge of providing affordable health services to populations with increasing levels of noncommunicable and chronic disease. Paradoxically, many nations can both celebrate increases in life expectancy and bemoan parallel increases in chronic disease prevalence. Simply put, despite living longer, not all of that time is spent in good health. Combined ...

High ozone mixing ratios are a serious concern of public health. While ozone concentrations are high on weekdays due to anthropogenic emissions, they are often higher on weekends. This phenomenon has been named the weekend effect. This study uses the University of California, Irvine-California Institute of Technology (UCI-CIT) air quality model to assess the weekend effect in the South Coast Ai...

We show that children who are born at or just before the weekend less likely to be breastfed, owing poorer breastfeeding support services in hospitals weekends. use this variation estimate effect of on children's development first seven years life, for a sample births low-educated mothers. find large effects cognitive but no health noncognitive during period childhood we consider. Regarding mec...

BACKGROUND Physical activity (PA) improves health outcomes accumulating evidence suggests that sedentary time (ST), especially parent-reported screen-time, is associated with negative health outcomes in children. The aim of the present study is to describe levels and patterns of PA and ST across the day and week and activity pattern differences between the sexes, across all weekdays and time sp...

BACKGROUND Telephone-administered cognitive behavioural therapy (T-CBT) has attracted international recognition as a potential means of providing effective psychological treatment whilst simultaneously lowering costs, maximizing service efficiency and improving patient access to care. A lack of rigorous exploration of therapist perspectives means that little is known about professional readines...

CONTEXT Therapy assistants (TAs) are widely used in the delivery of therapy services in rural Western Australia (WA). Appropriate training for TAs is an essential part of their practice; however, to date most TAs are trained 'on-the-job', thus taxing the scarce resources of rural and remote allied health professionals (AHPs). There has been limited recognized training that is suitable to their ...