Noun
allied health (uncountable)
The range of health care services outside the scope of the medicine, dentistry and nursing professions, e.g. music therapy, physiotherapy, optometry, etc.
Hypernym: health care (healthcare)
Coordinate terms: dentistry, medicine, nursing, veterinary medicine
Allied health professionals are angry with Mater over its decision to introduce a new pay and conditions scale for new employees that would see them paid less than existing employees in the same positions. Source: Internet
He was the Professor of Toxicology & Dean of the Faculty of Allied Health Sciences in UKM, visiting professor at Kyoto University and Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Yale School of Public Health. Source: Internet
The letter dated September 25 was signed by Chairmen of the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), Comrade C.K. Monde, and Nigeria Union of Allied Health Professionals (NUAHP), Comrade O.O. Farotimi. Source: Internet
The program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP) upon recommendation of the Medical Assisting Education Review Board (MAERB). Source: Internet