Educating the Public Health Workforce: A Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT: The aim of this scoping review was to identify and characterize the recent literature pertaining to the education of the public health workforce worldwide. The importance of preparing a public health workforce with sufficient capacity and appropriate capabilities has been recognized by major organizations around the world (1). Champions for public health note that a suitably educated workforce is essential to the delivery of public health services, including emergency response to biological, manmade, and natural disasters, within countries and across the globe. No single repository offers a comprehensive compilation of who is teaching public health, to whom, and for what end. Moreover, no international consensus prevails on what higher education should entail or what pedagogy is optimal fo

SUBMITTER: Tao D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5826052 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature