scholarly journals GH:ADT Project: developing a framework of Global Health concepts and a learning objectives catalogue

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
J Stratil ◽  
E A Rehfuess ◽  
K Geffert
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Global Health ◽  
General Framework ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Tropical Medicine ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Health Concepts ◽  
Systematic Reflection

Abstract Background Global Health (GH) is receiving increasing attention, in Germany, Europe and internationally. Despite an increased demand, teaching on GH remains fragmented and heterogeneous in the university landscape in German-speaking countries. Moreover, there is a lack of common understanding of GH and interpretations range from GH as tropical medicine to GH as everything related to health. This project aims to develop (A) a framework of different GH concepts, as a basis for (B) a set of GH learning objectives for German-speaking countries. Methods A review of publications providing GH definitions was carried out. Following a concept analysis approach, we developed a general framework of different and partially overlapping GH understandings. Building on these results we conducted an overview of reviews on learning objectives and curricula for GH to develop a set of learning objectives. Results The general framework distinguishes between GH concepts describing GH as (1)a set of global health issues (e.g. COVID-19), (2) a global ideal to strive for, (3 + 4) any activities relating to said global health issues or ideals (e.g. all activities contributing to health equity), and (5) sets of activities meeting various characteristics (e.g. being transdisciplinary and transnational). Within each concept, multiple sets of axes allow a more granular distinction of the concepts (e.g. regarding the relation to public health and tropical medicine). The list of key learning objectives shows considerable overlap with widely accepted public health core competencies. Differences include e.g. a (stronger) emphasis on intercultural and interdisciplinary collaboration, globalisation and transnational determinants of health. Conclusions A systematic reflection on commonalities and differences in the understanding of GH is important for a shared understanding. Based on the GH learning objectives we will develop core competencies for GH, including through an online survey of GH experts. Key messages The GH:ADT framework of global health concepts supports a systematic reflection on and recognition of the multi-dimensional nature of Global Health. The learning objectives identified in the GH:ADT project can be a valuable tool for curriculum development.

scholarly journals Valuing experiential knowledge in health promotion: a new method to build up knowledge in France

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
A Laurent ◽  
C Ferron ◽  
P Berry ◽  
B Soudier ◽  
B Georgelin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Conclusive Evidence ◽  
Experiential Knowledge ◽  
New Method ◽  
Tobacco Prevention ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Sports Clubs

Abstract Issue Effectiveness analyses of health promotion (HP) interventions (HPI) abound nowadays in France, but few research details how HPI work, nor explains how practitioners can translate conclusive evidence from the literature into action. Furthermore, large amounts of experiential knowledge remain untapped and undervalued. To close these gaps, a national multidisciplinary committee, comprising public officials, academics and practitioners, has worked since 2016 at designing a new method to build up knowledge in HP. CEKHP The method aims at Capitalizing, collecting and circulating Experiential Knowledge in HP (CEKHP). Committee members first investigated methods used in other countries to synthesize and share practical evidence, then drafted and experimented CEKHP in 11 different settings to test its relevance and applicability. Results Key components of CEKHP are: 1/CEKHP consists in in-depth semi-structured interviews and offers a guideline template adjustable for various contexts and multiple public health issues (behaviors, environments, etc.); 2/a trained outsider, mastering 7 core competencies, must conduct CEKHP; 3/CEKHP includes a framework for reporting key mechanisms that influence HPI outcomes. Detailed mechanisms include: context, partnerships, key steps, barriers and levers, ethics, theoretical foundations (intervention models, evidence-based literature, etc.), transferability. A guidebook and a toolkit are published in 2020. CEKHP successfully disseminates within the French HP community. It is currently used as the main data collection tool in a research project investigating health promoting sports clubs (PROCeSS) and in a practice-focused project documenting tobacco prevention (DCAP). Lessons Practitioners benefit from access to knowledge on how HPI work. CEKHP offers new tools to value and disseminate experiential knowledge. Given that policymakers increasingly prioritize funding in France on documented HPI, providing such tools and training is crucial. Key messages CEKHP offers a new method in the French context that has proven fruitful in various settings, for various public health issues, and can be useful to practitioners and researchers alike. Building up experiential knowledge with and for practitioners can be effective at both documenting practices and helping them gain new skills and better understanding of their interventions.

Communicable diseases in the immigrant population attended to in a tropical medicine unit: Epidemiological aspects and public health issues

2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 4-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Manzardo ◽  
Begoña Treviño ◽  
Jordi Gómez i Prat ◽  
Juan Cabezos ◽  
Eliana Monguí ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Communicable Diseases ◽  
Tropical Medicine ◽  
Immigrant Population ◽  
Health Issues

scholarly journals A Report on a Visit to the School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Narinderjeet Kaur ◽  
Abraham Chin ◽  
Eric Tan ◽  
Nelbon Giloi ◽  
Mohd Yusof Hj Ibrahim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Opportunity To Learn ◽  
Tropical Medicine ◽  
Japanese Culture ◽  
Medicine Department ◽  
Master Of Public Health ◽  
Short Course ◽  
Generous Support

  Introduction: In August 2018, three Master of Public Health (MPH) students from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University Malaysia Sabah visited the School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health (TMGH), Nagasaki University in Japan. Methods: They were joined by a faculty lecturer from the Community and Family Medicine Department. The objective of the ten-day educational trip was to attend the short course on Spatial Eco-Epidemiology Technologies at Public Health at Nagasaki University, School of TMGH. Results: The trip provided students with practical and theoretical experience of the latest technologies in the field of spatial eco-epidemiology. It also provided an opportunity to learn from the Japanese culture and gave them a well-rounded foundation upon which to build their knowledge for future careers in public health. Conclusion: This fantastic opportunity would not have been possible without the generous support and funding provided by UMS Student Mobility Programme.

scholarly journals Professional Characteristics of Health Promotion: A Scoping Review of the German and International Literature

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Verena Biehl ◽  
Thomas Gerlinger ◽  
Frank Wieber
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Search Strategy ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
International Literature ◽  
Professional Characteristics ◽  
Health Promotion And Education ◽  
German Speaking

Objective: This scoping review investigates current developments in the professional characteristics of health promotion (HP) with a focus on the German speaking part of Europe. The conceptualization of HP is a prerequisite for progressing HP professionalization and clarifying the interconnectedness between HP and Public Health.Methods: The search strategy was informed by sociological professionalization theories. Original publications were included in a content-based analysis.Results: Ninety publications (37 original publications) were identified in the review. The results are summarized in categories based on professional characteristics: 1) profession, 2) ethics, 3) education/training 4) competencies, and 5) quality. The professionalization of HP regarding the professional characteristics is less developed in the German compared to the international literature.Conclusion: The mixed findings emphasize the relevance of a common HP conceptualization. The HP core competencies, which have been developed by the International Union for Health Promotion and Education must be further promoted. A strong HP workforce within Public Health strengthens the HP status in policy contexts and society and its contribution to promoting health and tackling social inequalities in health.

scholarly journals Letter From The Editors

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Long ◽  
Harrison Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Public Health Research ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Great Uncertainty ◽  
Scientific Innovation ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
The World ◽  
Human Adaptability

This past year has been characterized by great uncertainty, turmoil, and profound loss due to the COVID-19 pandemic. No matter where in the world you are, there is no doubt in our minds that some aspect of your life has been altered. However, in some ways, the pandemic has also provided opportunities to showcase our human adaptability, resilience, and scientific innovation. The pandemic has also renewed focus on the vital roles that public health research and advocacy play in ensuring our collective wellbeing in society. Therefore, it has never been more important for our journal to continue our mission of relaying innovative solutions to interdisciplinary global health issues from a variety of academic, cultural, and geographic perspectives.

scholarly journals Engaging a wider public health workforce: bringing public health into architecture education

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (Supplement_4) ◽  
Author(s):  
R Marsh ◽  
P Pilkington ◽  
E Marco ◽  
L Rice
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Health Workforce ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Public Health Workforce ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Public Health Professionals ◽  
Public Health Training ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
Health Concepts

Abstract Background Current public health challenges necessitate the closer working of public health with built environment professionals. Despite growing evidence of benefits, there remains little progress in practice. Architects can play a key role in ensuring urban and building design is health promoting, however there is no requirement to teach health by architectural accreditation bodies across Europe. Objectives In the United Kingdom in 2010, the Public Health Practitioner in Residence programme (PHPiR) was established to address this situation. Public health professionals are embedded within the Faculty of Environment and Technology at the University of the West of England, and contribute to research, pedagogic programme development, teaching and mentoring. The aim was to embed public health concepts and issues into architecture training, to empower the profession as part of the wider workforce, to improve health and wellbeing when designing buildings and places. The PHPiR was evaluated using the Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, Maintenance (RE-AIM) framework. Data was collected (questionnaires, focus group, semi-structured interviews, programme documentation) on a Masters of Architecture cohort (N = 34) at intervals from 2011-2019 to see if the PHPiR has long lasting effects as students enter practice. Results Public health concepts including; inequalities, life course approach, and social capital, became embedded into the architecture curriculum. Projects produced had increased reference to wider health promoting issues and participants thinking shifted from the building itself to who would use the building, suggesting the intervention achieved its aims. Conclusions The PHPiR offers a novel approach for built environment professions to better understand public health issues and the relevance to their chosen fields. This model could be applied to other courses and replicated in educational institutions and public health training programmes across Europe. Key messages The PHPiR influenced the architecture curriculum, improved architects understanding and public health issues and concepts, and empowered them to create more health promoting environments. Embedding public health professionals into training for other disciplines may be an effective, sustainable method for increasing the wider public health workforce.

Human Rights Treaty Bodies

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Mason Meier ◽  
Virgínia Brás Gomes
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Global Health ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Health Practitioners ◽  
Treaty Body ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Public Health Practitioners

This chapter assesses the role of human rights treaty bodies in monitoring, interpreting, and adjudicating health-related human rights obligations, facilitating accountability for the realization of human rights in health policy. With each core human rights treaty having its own corresponding human rights treaty body, these international institutions influence states and galvanize advocates to take action to realize human rights across a range of global health issues. Describing treaty body efforts to monitor state implementation, interpret human rights, and adjudicate individual complaints, this chapter examines the evolving composition and functions of these treaty bodies and analyzes their effectiveness in facilitating the implementation of human rights as a basis for global health. Given recent United Nations efforts to strengthen treaty body functions and streamline monitoring processes, treaty bodies provide complementary approaches for public health practitioners to support accountability for the implementation of health-related human rights.

scholarly journals PANDEMIC EMERGENCE: PUBLIC HEALTH OR SECURITY ISSUES?

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (22) ◽  
pp. 120-129
Author(s):  
Nor Anita Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Mortality Rates ◽  
High Morbidity ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Global Health Issue ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

The novel coronavirus pandemic (SARS-CoV-2) has spread from human transmission and emerged as a public and global health issue that becomes serious due to high morbidity and mortality rates. This article aims to see that the aspect of a pandemic is not only involving public health issues as known but also a threat to a security issues in a country. The study of writing applies doctrinal methods. As a result of discussions and analysis, this article found that the emergence of pandemics occur on a large scale has trigger threats, panic, and fear that can cause public health and security issues to be addressed.

The risks of public health partnerships with the food and beverage industry

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
M McKe
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Present Evidence ◽  
The Public ◽  
Health Partnerships ◽  
Regulatory Processes ◽  
Beverage Industry ◽  
Food And Beverage Industry ◽  
Food And Beverage

Abstract Martin McKee will question whether the private sector can be trusted to act as partners in addressing global health issues such as the NCD pandemic, and present evidence that suggests health actors should proceed with caution when considering the industry as potential bedfellows. He will argue that the known actions of many commercial organisations impose an obligation on those seeking to engage with public health bodies to demonstrate absolute transparency, while the public health bodies have an obligation to understand the ways in which commercial organisations seek to shape the dominant narrative and capture regulatory processes.

scholarly journals Peopling Global Health

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 376-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
João Biehl ◽  
Adriana Petryna
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
International Health ◽  
Tropical Medicine ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Global Health Initiatives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Health Initiatives

The field of Global Health brings together a vastly diverse array of actors working to address pressing health issues worldwide with unprecedented financial and technological resources and informed by various agendas. While Global Health initiatives are booming and displacing earlier framings of the field (such as tropical medicine or international health), critical analyses of the social, political, and economic processes associated with this expanding field — an “open source anarchy” on the ground — are still few and far between. In this essay, we contend that, among the powerful players of Global Health, the supposed beneficiaries of interventions are generally lost from view and appear as having little to say or nothing to contribute. We make the case for a more comprehensive and people-centered approach and demonstrate the crucial role of ethnography as an empirical lantern in Global Health. By shifting the emphasis from diseases to people and environments, and from trickle-down access to equality, we have the opportunity to set a humane agenda that both realistically confronts challenges and expands our vision of the future of global communities.

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