Allied Health: Practice Issues and Trends into the New Millennium

This book presents an overview of the concerns facing the largest and most diverse pool of health workers in the United States as they provide disease detection, prevention, dietary, health promotion, rehabilitation and health management services at all levels of health care delivery. This unique book addresses critical issues that affect allied health practice, including managed health care, computer technology, drug information, and demographic trends in society, with an emphasis on implications for education. The book also includes appendices listing allied health organizations, accrediting agencies, and descriptions of federally recognized allied health professions. Allied Health: Practice Issues and Trends in the New Millennium examines public policy, research needs, new directions for accreditation, interprofessional collaborative alliances, employment opportunities, practice directions, and much more. E-Streams says this book is "Recommended for students interested in allied heath as a profession, and for professionals involved in career counseling and educational planning. . . . A good reference source for academic libraries, especially those that support a health sciences curriculum and for a teacher's college library."