The environment of medicine.

Abstract

technicians, respiratory therapists, and speech-language pathologists and audiologists. The 18-member committee contained representatives of all of the focus professions as well as representatives involved in the provision of health care services. The book's preface and executive summary explain the study's methodology and highlight the committee's recommendations. The body of the text is divided into eight chapters, most of which deal with the concepts of supply and demand from a variety of perspectives, including employer, educator, professional, accreditor, and legislator. The final chapter, Allied Health Personnel and Long-Term Care, is unique in its focus on a specific population in need of increased arid improved allied health services. Although this report was completed in the fall of 1987, it makes projections to the year 2000 and, as a result, contains valuable long·term in· formation for anyone involved in the proVision of health care services. The explanation and analysis of the data are enlightening and confirming. The report contains many examples of occupational therapy. The inferences made regarding licensure, staffing patterns, recruitment, salaries and wages, and educational programming are of particular interest. Katy Allen, MS, OTR/L