Practical competencies for public health education: a global analysis
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Practical competencies for public health education: a global analysis Leanne Coombe1
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Christina Severinsen2 • Priscilla Robinson3
Received: 2 March 2020 / Revised: 3 August 2020 / Accepted: 13 August 2020 Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+) 2020
Abstract Objectives We quantified the contents of existing public health competency frameworks against the elements of the World Federation of Public Health Associations’ Global Charter for the Public’s Health. Methods We conducted a desktop analysis of eight public health competency frameworks publicly available on the internet. Using a pre-formed template, competency statements from each framework were mapped against the elements of the Global Charter—core public health services (Protection, Promotion and Prevention) and overarching enabling functions (Information, Governance, Capacity, and Advocacy). We then quantified coverage of the Charter’s elements in each of the frameworks. Results We found that although the public health competency frameworks vary considerably in terms of coverage and focus, they all cover every element contained in the Global Charter. However, there were a number of areas of competency identified in some frameworks not explicitly referred to in the Charter including cultural safety, human rights and systems thinking. Conclusions The Global Charter provides a mechanism for comparing competency sets, checking public health curricula content, informing competency framework and curricula (re)design, and planning and monitoring workforce needs. Keywords Competency frameworks Curricula Global Charter for Public Health Mapping
Introduction The World Federation of Public Health Associations (WFPHA) is an organisation which seeks to coordinate public health activities conducted through its worldwide public health membership. The WFPHA recognises the Vienna Declaration (United Nations 1993), which underscored the importance of the Ottawa Charter (World Health
& Leanne Coombe [email protected] Christina Severinsen [email protected] Priscilla Robinson [email protected] 1
Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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School of Health Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
Organization 1986). It also acknowledges the existence of both new and re-emerging threats to public health, and the importance of the Sustainable Development Goals (United Nations 2015). Aligning with these acknowledgements, the WFPHA has developed and published a Global Charter for the Public’s Health (Lomazzi 2016) (henceforth the Global Charter), an internationally applicable framework describing the structures of public health practice. The Global Charter framework elements include core public health services (Protection, Prevention and Promotion) that are supported by a set of overarching enabling functions (Information, Governance, Capacity, an
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