Health Personnel - Legislation & jurisprudence
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Practicing dental hygienists' perceptions about the bachelor of science in dental hygiene and the oral health practitioner.

29 Sep 2009 No research data are available about practicing dental hygienists' opinions regarding the Bachelor of Science in Dental Hygiene (B.S.D.H.) and the oral health practitioner (OHP), a new professional category in dental hygiene; however, such views ... Read more...

Legal liability of medical toxicologists serving as poison control center consultants: a review of relevant legal statutes and survey of the experience of medical toxicologists.

30 Aug 2009 INTRODUCTION: Legal liability is an increasing concern in many areas of medicine, although the extent to which this alters the practice of medicine is unclear. To date the risk for litigation against medical toxicologists serving in the role of ... Read more...

Understanding the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006.

29 Jun 2009 The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 was enacted as a result of the Government adopting the recommendations of the Bichard Inquiry (2004), that looked into the circumstances surrounding the death of two children in Soham in 2002. The 2006 Act ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Health Personnel - Legislation & jurisprudence'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Practicing dental hygienists' perceptions about the bachelor of science in dental hygiene and the oral health practitioner. 29 Sep 2009
• Legal liability of medical toxicologists serving as poison control center consultants: a review of relevant legal statutes and survey of the experience of medical toxicologists. 30 Aug 2009
• [Arguments for mandatory influenza vaccination] 29 Jul 2009
• [Influenza vaccination for health care workers: should we strengthen individual responsibility or should it be mandatory?] 29 Jul 2009
• Understanding the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006. 29 Jun 2009
• Guidelines for managing conscientious objection to blood transfusion. 29 Jun 2009
• Executive summary: value-based purchasing and technology assessment in orthopaedics. 2 Jun 2009
• Emergency legal preparedness for hospitals and health care personnel. 30 May 2009
• Emergency response and liability laws. 30 May 2009
• Health care personnel response to protect the individual and public health under extreme conditions. 30 May 2009
• Law, liability, and public health emergencies. 30 May 2009
• [Personnel's rights and obligations in elder abuse in institutions] 29 Apr 2009
• The new face of public protection. 19 Apr 2009
• Dilemmas in intimate partner violence. 13 Apr 2009
• HPCSA: a mess in the Health Department's pocket. 30 Mar 2009
• How to avoid staff discrimination. 30 Mar 2009
• Health care information technology vendors' "hold harmless" clause: implications for patients and clinicians. 23 Mar 2009
• Integrative genomics, personal-genome tests and personalized healthcare: the future is being built today. 2 Mar 2009
• Regulation of health practitioners by trade practices and fair trading legislation. 30 Jan 2009
• A constitution for the NHS. 26 Jan 2009

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Technical information about 'Health Personnel'

Definition: Men and women working in the provision of health services, whether as individual practitioners or employees of health institutions and programs, whether or not professionally trained, and whether or not subject to public regulation. (From A Discursive Dictionary of Health Care, 1976)

Descriptor UI: D006282

Alternative terms: Health Personnel; Personnel, Health; Health Care Providers; Health Care Provider; Provider, Health Care; Providers, Health Care; Healthcare Providers; Healthcare Provider; Provider, Healthcare; Providers, Healthcare; Fieldworkers; Fieldworker; Field Workers; Field Worker; Worker, Field; Workers, Field;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; education; psychology;

Tree Number: M01.526.485; N02.360;

Online Note: pre-explosion = HEALTH PERSONNEL (PX)

History Note: 92; was NON MESH 1966-91; was see HEALTH MANPOWER 1989-91

Technical Notes: persons working in the field of health: do not confuse with HEALTH MANPOWER, the availability of HEALTH PERSONNEL