Health promotion and disease prevention in the education of health professionals: a mapping of European educational programmes from 2019.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health professionals face barriers in carrying out effective health promotion and disease prevention. To indicate what are the needs for curriculum development in educational programmes, this study aims to provide an overview of how various health professionals are currently trained in health promotion and disease prevention at different educational levels.

Methods

In 2019, a descriptive mapping exercise was performed focusing on European programmes for different health and healthcare professionals at the three levels of education (undergraduate, postgraduate, and continuous professional development [CPD]). Data were collected by a self-developed online survey that was distributed using a modified snowball method.

Results

A total of 186 educational programm

SUBMITTER: Patja K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9652036 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature