scholarly journals Health inequalities within professional health education at the University of Malta

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
C Copperstone ◽  
M Bonello
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Professional ◽  
Health Inequalities ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Mesh Terms ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Professional Health ◽  
The University ◽  
And Training

Abstract Background Addressing health inequalities is a crucial public health issue. It is thus imperative that health professionals are equipped with explicit competences to recognise and address health inequalities. Methods This is a multi-phase mixed-methods study exploring health inequalities and training within professional health curricula at the University of Malta. Phase One consists of a scoping study which explores whether and how health inequalities feature within the health professions' undergraduate curricula. This involved a systematic search of undergraduate health professional curricula, including competency profiles in each programme of study, using information available in the public domain. Academic year reviewed was 2019-2020. To ensure harmonisation, the two independent reviewers used the following search strategy: a) using a keyword descriptive approach (MeSH terms divided into two levels: direct, level one, and more general keywords, level two) and b) a more subjective approach to assess wider topic elements. Results Preliminary results emanating from mapping of 19 different programmes of study will be presented. A wide range of occurrences, from zero occurrences in some programmes to a maximum of one occurrence for level one and 12 for level two keywords in other programmes, was observed. Conclusions There is a wide disparity between the awareness of and training of inequalities across different professional training programmes. This provides the groundwork for Phase Two of this research during which public health stakeholders' attitudes and perceptions on health professional training and current practices will be explored. Findings from this study will provide the evidence and the impetus for possible interdisciplinary modules and/or continuous professional development programmes in health inequalities. Key messages The need for developing short courses/reviewing health curricula to incorporate health inequalities is encouraged. Public health professionals have a responsibility to address health inequalities in their professional practice.

scholarly journals An exploration of migrant women’s perceptions of public health messages to reduce stillbirth in the UK: a qualitative study

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomasina Stacey ◽  
Melanie Haith-Cooper ◽  
Nisa Almas ◽  
Charlotte Kenyon
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Perinatal Mortality ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Health Messages ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Public Health Messages ◽  
Associated Risk Factors ◽  
The Uk

Abstract Background Stillbirth is a global public health priority. Within the United Kingdom, perinatal mortality disproportionately impacts Black, Asian and minority ethnic women, and in particular migrant women. Although the explanation for this remains unclear, it is thought to be multidimensional. Improving perinatal mortality is reliant upon raising awareness of stillbirth and its associated risk factors, as well as improving maternity services. The aim of this study was to explore migrant women’s awareness of health messages to reduce stillbirth risk, and how key public health messages can be made more accessible. Method Two semi-structured focus groups and 13 one to one interviews were completed with a purposive sample of 30 migrant women from 18 countries and across 4 NHS Trusts. Results Participants provided an account of their general awareness of stillbirth and recollection of the advice they had been given to reduce the risk of stillbirth both before and during pregnancy. They also suggested approaches to how key messages might be more effectively communicated to migrant women. Conclusions Our study highlights the complexity of discussing stillbirth during pregnancy. The women in this study were found to receive a wide range of advice from family and friends as well as health professionals about how to keep their baby safe in pregnancy, they recommended the development of a range of resources to provide clear and consistent messages. Health professionals, in particular midwives who have developed a trusting relationship with the women will be key to ensuring that public health messages relating to stillbirth reduction are accessible to culturally and linguistically diverse communities.

Creating Academic and Health Care Partnerships that Impact Public Health

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 378-384
Author(s):  
Peter W. Grandjean ◽  
Burritt W. Hess ◽  
Nicholas Schwedock ◽  
Jackson O. Griggs ◽  
Paul M. Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Local Health ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Research Partnerships ◽  
Local Health Care ◽  
Training Community ◽  
The University

Kinesiology programs are well positioned to create and develop partnerships within the university, with local health care providers, and with the community to integrate and enhance the activities of professional training, community service, public health outreach, and collaborative research. Partnerships with medical and health care organizations may be structured to fulfill accreditation standards and the objectives of the “Exercise is Medicine®” initiative to improve public health through primary prevention. Barriers of scale, location, time, human resources, and funding can be overcome so all stakeholder benefits are much greater than the costs.

Body and health in the training of health professionals: a mapping of scientific production

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Márcia Cristina Rocha Paranhos ◽  
Lívia De Rezende Cardoso
Keyword(s):  
Health Professionals ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
National Curriculum ◽  
Health Curriculum ◽  
Academic Production ◽  
Unified Health System ◽  
Curriculum Guidelines ◽  
Theses And Dissertations ◽  
And Training

This article builds a mapping in order to analyze the theses and dissertations about body, health, curriculum and training of health professionals. For this, theses and dissertations were mapped in the period from 2010 to 2020 through a state-of-the-art study. The composition of the data is given by the presentation and discussion of the listed texts. As for research, these concern the production of bodies based on biotechnological discourses; professional training in health; others point to the curricula of health courses after the National Curriculum Guidelines (DCN); the performance of health professionals in relation to the Unified Health System (SUS); teaching strategies for health training; corporeidity in the curricula, especially in the curricula of the Physical Education course; the anatomoclinical body and educational health practices. In this perspective, some contributions, limits and possibilities of this academic production were observed.

Assessing health needs

2020 ◽  
pp. 42-53
Author(s):  
Andrew O’Shaughnessy ◽  
John Wright ◽  
Ben Cave
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Professional ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Service Planning ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Health Needs Assessment ◽  
Healthcare Needs ◽  
Health Agencies

HNA (health needs assessment) is a systematic method of identifying the unmet health and healthcare needs of a population and recommending changes to meet these unmet needs. It is used to improve health and other service planning, priority setting, and policy development. HNA is an example of public health working outside the formal health sector and presenting back to colleagues. Successful HNAs will also ensure that non-health agencies benefit from their findings. This chapter will describe why HNA is important and what it means in practice. Professional training and clinical experience teach that a health professional must systematically assess a patient before administering any treatment that is believed to be effective. This systematic approach is often omitted when assessing the health needs of populations

scholarly journals Integrating sustainability in professionals’ training in the field of health promotion and prevention

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
A Lutz ◽  
M Pasche ◽  
K Zürcher
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Health Training ◽  
Public Health Training

Abstract Background Climate change poses a number of threats and challenges to our societies and has direct impacts on human health. Raising awareness and training health professionals to sustainable development represents a major strategy in order to respond to climate challenges. This article describes a teaching experience conducted in the context of a Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in public health at the University of Lausanne, where students have been trained to sustainable development, through theoretical lessons and practical exercises. Objectives The integration of the topic of sustainable development in the teaching of health promotion and prevention to the students of the CAS in public health aimed to foster students' knowledge and competences in relation to this emerging topic. The main objective was to transmit concepts, methods and practical resources allowing them to incorporate sustainability into everyday health promotion and prevention practices. Results Health promotion and sustainable development share common goals and methodologies. The experience of teaching sustainability to public health students shows that these two topics can be easily integrated within a public health training, if teachers provide students with a clear theoretical and methodological framework, allowing them to make the appropriate connections between the two fields. Social determinants of health, intersectorial action and multilevel governance represent key topics that teachers can address with students in order to show the connections between public health and sustainability. Conclusions As stated in the 2019 Lancet Countdown on health and climate change, climate change is both a threat and an opportunity for our societies. While it puts health systems and professionals under considerable pressure, it also represents an opportunity to innovate and transform professional training and practices, and generate new knowledge and know-how. Key messages Training health professionals to sustainable development represents a major strategy to respond to climate change and its health impacts. In order to integrate sustainable development in public health training, teachers should provide students with a clear theoretical and methodological framework.

QUALITY OF VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND CAREER OF HR MANAGERS (IN THE ASSESSMENT OF GRADUATES)

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-34
Author(s):  
T. Chernyak
Keyword(s):  
Personnel Management ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Hr Managers ◽  
The University ◽  
And Training

The article discusses the current problems of assessing the quality of professional training of HR managers from the perspective of graduates of the HR direction working in this area.For ten years the author of the article has been assessing the quality of training university graduates as deputy vice rector for organizing practice, employment and promoting employment of graduates. The results of annual studies of satisfaction with the quality of education of all participants in the educational process: students; employers and graduates of the university were an indispensable indicator in the preparation and conduct of accreditation of the university, it has repeatedly reported at conferences and published. The accumulated experience allowed us to conduct annual monitoring studies on the problem of satisfaction with the quality of professional training of graduates of the Department of Personnel Management of the Siberian Institute of Management, a branch of the RANEPA. The article provides only some generalized results of the author's studies in 2017 - 2019 on assessing the quality of professional training and career of specialists from the position of graduates of the department. The author conducts a brief analysis of theoretical foreign and domestic sources to study the problems of assessing the quality of education and training of specialists; considers the problems of development of criteria for assessing the quality of training, external and internal assessment, and the inclusion of certain assessment objects in the assessment, relevant to universities. The practical focus of the article allows us to see both the positive aspects in the training of future specialists in the field of personnel management, and some omissions, which will improve the quality and applied nature of training, taking into account the identified needs of graduates oriented to the demands of the labor market.

Education and training of public health professionals in the European Region: variation and convergence

2012 ◽  
Vol 58 (6) ◽  
pp. 801-810 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vesna Bjegovic-Mikanovic ◽  
Dejana Vukovic ◽  
Robert Otok ◽  
Katarzyna Czabanowska ◽  
Ulrich Laaser
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
European Region ◽  
Public Health Professionals ◽  
And Training

Social economic inequalities and mental health. I. Concepts, theories and interpretations

2003 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 205-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola Bonizzato ◽  
Juan Eduardo Tello
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Health Inequalities ◽  
Social Deprivation ◽  
Material Deprivation ◽  
Occupational Class ◽  
Manual Search ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University

SummaryAims – Reconstructing the models used for approaching the inequalities issues in health, idenfiying the most relevant theoretical and conceptual contributions. Method – Literature electronic-search on Medline, Psyclit, Econlit, Social Science Index and SocioSearch using the key-words inequalities, deprivation, poverty, socio-economic status, social class, occupational class, mental health for the period 1965-2002; integrated with manual search. The material was classified according to the conceptual and theoretical interpretative models or to the analyses of the association 'inequalities-health' where health was expressed as mortality, morbidity or services utilisation. Results – Four different interpretative models about the genesis of inequalities were identified. Further theoretical developments overcome the distinction among conceptuals contrapositions selection versus causation, statistic artefactual versus real differences, individual behaviours versus material context. Since the 80's the concept of material deprivation has been enlarged to include social deprivation to explain health inequalities. The social exclusion is related to material deprivation and to social fragility enlarging the traditional aspects of poverty. The theories that better adapt to the psychiatric field are the social selection and social causation. Conclusions – The social exclusion and the new methodologies for measuring the inequalities seems to be an effective way for understanding of the inexplored aspects of the mental health inequalities.Declaration of Interest: This work was partly funded by the Department of the Public Health Sciences “G. Sanarelli” of the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and the Department of Medicine and Public Health of the University of Verona.

scholarly journals ON THE ISSUE OF VERIFICATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH APPLICATION OF IN TRAINING MASTERS OF PUBLIC HEALTH

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (21) ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia M. Kalyniuk ◽  
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Lubov M. Romaniuk ◽  
Nina Ye. Romaniuk ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Professional Community ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Public Health Professionals ◽  
Professional Self ◽  
Interdisciplinary Integration

The expediency of conducting research and experimental work at the stage of identifying opportunities to improve the educational process in training future public health professionals on the basis of interdisciplinary integration is substantiated. The article is devoted to the role of experimental pedagogical research as a means of testing the effectiveness of interdisciplinary integration in the training of future public health professionals. It is generalized that the issue of professional training of future specialists in the specialty «Public Health» in the pedagogical literature is considered as a component of professional self-determination and professional development in the context of the study of professional self-awareness. It is proved that the interdisciplinary integration in the training of future public health professionals is an integrated component that combines individual and personal features (awareness of the choice of profession, completeness and strength of knowledge in the chosen profession, the formation of professionally significant and empathetic qualities). It is socially oriented and oriented at building relationships and positioning oneself in the team, develops the ability to make decisions independently and take responsibility as well as personality characteristics; it implies the presence of strong beliefs in the values of the profession of public health specialist for the design of their own subjective deontological position in the work connected with their specialty. It is substantiated that the professional training of future medical professionals on the basis of interdisciplinary integration involves creating conditions for identifying personal and social experience of students with the profession and the professional community, is a process of mastering normative professional requirements that allow them to adequately perceive medical reality, as well as to develop professionally expedient strategies and tactics, tasks and plans of professional activity, to consciously regulate one’s own behavior within the established professional and normative imperatives. It was found that the professional training of future public health professionals on the basis of interdisciplinary integration is characterized by the presence of future professionals with a set of knowledge that reflects the substantive essence of intellectual, ideological and moral values; the ability to predict and design the process of professional activity taking into account its specifics in interaction with colleagues and patients and is determined by the content of professional medical ethics and deontology, ethical and moral imperatives and professional and ethical ideals and values of public health. The peculiarities of the formation of professional training of future public health specialists on the basis of interdisciplinary integration are studied.

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