What should the African health workforce know about disasters? Proposed competencies for strengthening public health disaster risk management education in Africa.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As part of efforts to implement the human resources capacity building component of the African Regional Strategy on Disaster Risk Management (DRM) for the health sector, the African Regional Office of the World Health Organization, in collaboration with selected African public health training institutions, followed a multistage process to develop core competencies and curricula for training the African health workforce in public health DRM. In this article, we describe the methods used to develop the competencies, present the identified competencies and training curricula, and propose recommendations for their integration into the public health education curricula of African member states.

Methods

We conducted a pilot research using mixed methods approaches to dev

SUBMITTER: Olu O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5879558 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature