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Workforce and Occupational Statuses of Aborigines

Abstract: earned income, of probable skill and training, of authority, of prestige and of other elements that make up an individual’s position in the social order. For the same reasons, differences in workforce and occupational statuses measure the economic and social subordination or superordination of identifiable populations, and changes in such indicators are the best clues to alterations in social rankings and in the

Allied health workers in pediatrics.

Abstract: I strongly disagree with the opinions of Dr. Pick in regard to the appropriate role of allied health workers. Dr. Pick is concerned with the private practice of pediatrics, while to me the more important issue is the overall health care of children. In view of the worsening crisis in health care delivery, we can no longer afford the luxury of letting highly trained health professionals perform functions that can be equally well performed by less highly trained personnel.

Nurses and pediatricians collaborate.

Abstract: The Academy's Committee on Pediatric Manpower was established because of the concerns of Academy membership about the numbers of American children who were not receiving health care and the tremendous pressures for service being placed on practicing pediatricians. The Committee recognized that solutions to these problems would be complex and multifaceted. One of the solutions which it chose to pursue in some depth was that of the interprofessional care of the ambulatory pediatric patient. This concept involves what is often referred to as an \"expanded\" role of the nurse, working in close collaboration with the pediatrician. The concept is of equal importance to the nursing profession, a large segment of which has come to deplore the increasing separation of nurses, particularly the most highly trained nurses of the profession, from patient caretaking.

The community physician of the future.

Abstract: HE second Green Paperl on the future structure . of the National Health Service in England may well’ be drastically changed with a Conservative administration in Parliament. Even so, there are several fundamentally new concepts in the Crossman model of National Health Service reorganization that could be retained in any new structure of the health services of Britain. One of these may well be the concept of a Community Physician to replace the time-honoured role of Medical Officer of Health2. Sir George Godber, Chief Medical Officer of the Department of Health and Social Security, writing in The Practitioner3 in 1968 said that &dquo;Whatever his title, the Medical Officer of Health of the future must become the Community Physician who will ensure with his clinical colleagues that a sensible district