Considering the global context in public health workforce development
Public health ideas and challenges are without borders, and require a competent and committed global public health workforce.
Public health challenges are without borders and the global public health competences to cope with these challenges may be identical. However, there will be different scales and contexts within which the competences will be required and applied. Achieving clarity about skills and competences in a global context will require a generalised standards movement built over time based on collective understanding of shared public health values, terminology, techniques and practices, all of which can be translated into appropriate core curriculums for training and continuing professional development (CPD). It is intended with the current reforms, that Public Health England will work internationally to identify, understand and develop approaches to tackle health threats as well as to foster innovatory approaches to public health practice. Outcomes will feed into the appropriate public health education and training platforms to develop workforce competences..
Sources or references
- Global Public Health: a new era (2009) (eds) Beaglehole, R & R. Bonita, Oxford University Press
- The role of public health institutions in global health system strengthening efforts:the US CDC’s Perspective (2012) PloS Medicine, April 2012, Vol9, Idea 4
- Chen LC, Evans TG, Cash RA (1999) "Health as a global public good", in Global Public Goods. Edited by Kaul I, Grunberg I, Stern MA. New York: Oxford University Press.
- World Health Organization (2007) Everybody’s business: strengthening health systems to improve health outcomes. WHO’s framework for action. Geneva: World Health Organization.
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