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Educating the public health workforce: Issues and challenges
BACKGROUND: In public health, as well as other health education contexts, there is increasing recognition of the transformation in public health practice and the necessity for educational providers to keep pace. Traditionally, public health education has been at the postgraduate level; however, over...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2673231/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19358714 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-8462-6-8 |
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author | Fleming, Mary Louise Parker, Elizabeth Gould, Trish Service, Melinda |
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description | BACKGROUND: In public health, as well as other health education contexts, there is increasing recognition of the transformation in public health practice and the necessity for educational providers to keep pace. Traditionally, public health education has been at the postgraduate level; however, over the past decade an upsurge in the growth of undergraduate public health degrees has taken place. DISCUSSION: This article explores the impact of these changes on the traditional sphere of Master of Public Health programs, the range of competencies required at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and the relevance of these changes to the public health workforce. It raises questions about the complexity of educational issues facing tertiary institutions and discusses the implications of these issues on undergraduate and postgraduate programs in public health. CONCLUSION: The planning and provisioning of education in public health must differentiate between the requirements of undergraduate and postgraduate students – while also addressing the changing needs of the health workforce. Within Australia, although significant research has been undertaken regarding the competencies required by postgraduate public health students, the approach is still somewhat piecemeal, and does not address undergraduate public health. This paper argues for a consistent approach to competencies that describe and differentiate entry-level and advanced practice. |
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spelling | pubmed-26732312009-04-25 Educating the public health workforce: Issues and challenges Fleming, Mary Louise Parker, Elizabeth Gould, Trish Service, Melinda Aust New Zealand Health Policy Commentary BACKGROUND: In public health, as well as other health education contexts, there is increasing recognition of the transformation in public health practice and the necessity for educational providers to keep pace. Traditionally, public health education has been at the postgraduate level; however, over the past decade an upsurge in the growth of undergraduate public health degrees has taken place. DISCUSSION: This article explores the impact of these changes on the traditional sphere of Master of Public Health programs, the range of competencies required at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and the relevance of these changes to the public health workforce. It raises questions about the complexity of educational issues facing tertiary institutions and discusses the implications of these issues on undergraduate and postgraduate programs in public health. CONCLUSION: The planning and provisioning of education in public health must differentiate between the requirements of undergraduate and postgraduate students – while also addressing the changing needs of the health workforce. Within Australia, although significant research has been undertaken regarding the competencies required by postgraduate public health students, the approach is still somewhat piecemeal, and does not address undergraduate public health. This paper argues for a consistent approach to competencies that describe and differentiate entry-level and advanced practice. BioMed Central 2009-04-09 /pmc/articles/PMC2673231/ /pubmed/19358714 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-8462-6-8 Text en Copyright © 2009 Fleming et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Commentary Fleming, Mary Louise Parker, Elizabeth Gould, Trish Service, Melinda Educating the public health workforce: Issues and challenges |
title | Educating the public health workforce: Issues and challenges |
title_full | Educating the public health workforce: Issues and challenges |
title_fullStr | Educating the public health workforce: Issues and challenges |
title_full_unstemmed | Educating the public health workforce: Issues and challenges |
title_short | Educating the public health workforce: Issues and challenges |
title_sort | educating the public health workforce: issues and challenges |
topic | Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2673231/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19358714 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-8462-6-8 |
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