A Call for Action: Advocating for Increased Funding for the Allied Health Professions: ASAHP Leadership Development Program.
A Call for Action: Advocating for Increased Funding for the Allied Health Professions: ASAHP Leadership Development Program.
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行动呼吁：倡导增加对联合医疗专业的资助：ASAHP 领导力发展计划。
作者：
David H. Demo;Donna Fry;Nancy Devine;Andrew Butler
专职医疗人员是一组多样化的医疗保健工作者，他们为患者提供必要的服务，以补充或代替医生，护士和医疗辅助人员提供的服务。产生对专职医疗人员需求增加的两股力量是美国人口老龄化和与实施《患者保护和平价医疗法案》相关的医疗保健改革。虽然专职医疗人员占医疗保健工作人员的近60%，但用于支持专职医疗领域的劳动力培训、教师发展和研究的资金大大落后于医生和护理专业的资金。需要加大宣传力度，提高人们对联合卫生专业对卫生保健的贡献的认识，并扩大对所有卫生保健专业的供资。
Allied health professionals are a diverse group of health care workers who provide necessary services to patients in addition to, or in place of, services provided by physicians, nurses, and medical paraprofessionals. Two forces generating increased demand for allied health professionals are the aging of the US population and health care reform associated with the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Although the allied health professions comprise nearly 60% of the health care workforce, the funding to support workforce training, faculty development, and research in the allied health fields lags substantially behind funding for the physician and nursing professions. Increased advocacy efforts are needed to increase the awareness of what the allied health professions contribute to health care and to expand funding across all health care professions.