Health care systems models and occupational therapy.
Health care system models featuring four alternative future scenarios are discussed relative to occupational therapy. Five prevailing theoretical models of occupational therapy practice and three practice systems are described as they interact for service provision. Occupational therapy as an open system is presented as possessing the potential to successfully embrace and negotiate changes a in the health care system as projected for the future.
Professor Occupational Therapy Associate Vice Pres, San Jose University, San Jose, CA, 95192-0021.
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