Certification terminology In February 1994, the AOA Board of Trustees adopted the following standardized definitions of certification and eliminated certificates of special recognition. General Certification (formerly “Primary Certification”): The primary certification conferred on diplomates who meet the requirements in a specified field of medical practice under the jurisdiction of a certifyi...

The "Guide to Classification of Occupational Therapy Personnel" has been developed as a resource for the American Occupational Therapy Association and for health care administrators and others requiring the services of occupational therapy personnel. The guide to common job roles of occupational therapy describes the qualifications and performance expectations of associated roles. The job roles...

Patients who received occupational therapy services (OT Group) and those who did not (NOT Group) were compared in a retrospective record review to determine the efficacy of occupational therapy in reducing the need for restraint in a state psychiatric hospital. There were 60 subjects with an Axis I diagnosis in each group who met the qualifications of a continuous 90-day minimum inpatient statu...

Evidence is presented for the UK, the US and France that the pace of change in the structure of employment by occupation has not been accelerating. Changes in the occupational structure of employment are taken to proxy changes in the net demand for labour by skill level. Efforts are made to make the data for these three countries comparable, reflecting the problem that data published by the ILO...

This study explores the regulatory basis and applied aspects of qualification centers in Ukraine, focusing on their role recognizing professional qualifications addressing gaps. The establishment is grounded Ukrainian legislation, with main responsibility awarding through validation non-formal informal learning based occupational standards. center accreditation process overseen by National Qual...

This paper creates a pseudo cohort of individuals who left school in the mid-1990s, using Labour Force Survey. The extent of low achievement at school amongst this group is documented, and then the impact of such low achievement on labour force status is estimated. The main focus of the paper is then to investigate to what extent unqualified school leavers can improve their labour market status...

This paper creates a pseudo cohort of individuals who left school in the mid-1990s, using Labour Force Survey. The extent of l ow achievement at school amongst this group is documented, and then the impact of such low achievement on labour force status is estimated. The main focus of the paper is then to investigate to what extent unqualified school leavers can improve their labour market statu...

Concerns have been raised about the capacity of the health workforce to meet increasing future health care demands. Strategies aimed at improving workforce supply, at least in Australia, are focused heavily on education (ie, increasing the number of training places in key health professions) and recruitment (ie, recruiting overseas-trained health care professionals). Data from the 2006 Australi...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether parental social class and cognitive ability in childhood, as well as social and psychological factors, particularly personality traits, are independently associated with binge drinking in 50 year old adults assessed in a longitudinal birth cohort study. METHOD 17,415 babies born in Great Britain in 1958 and followed up at 11, 33, and 50 years of age. Their bin...

Article history: Received 15 October 2007 Received in revised form 16 April 2009 Accepted 17 April 2009 Available online 9 May 2009 Determinants of intergenerational social mobility were examined in 8287 men from the British Cohort Study 1970. Confirming previous research, parental social class, childhood intelligence, and educational qualifications were the strongest predictors of occupational...