Do academic competencies relate to 'real life' public health practice? A report from two exploratory workshops.

摘要

Public health (PH) organizations in different parts of the world (such as North America1'2) have recently been seeking to define competencies relevant to PH practice. The Association of Schools of PH in the European Region (ASPHER) has initiated a programme to produce a European PH competency framework.3'4 ASPHER invited all member schools to participate in brainstorming workshops which yielded a provisional list of competencies.3 These were discussed and supplemented with more competencies at two European conferences (at Aarhus University, Denmark, in April 2008, and at Ecole des Hautes Etudes de Sante Publique (EHESP), Paris, France, in October 2008), with the participation of representatives of national health systems as well as of schools of PH (SsPH); the conferences aimed at further development of the lists based on continuing dialogue between SsPH and PH stakeholders.