Student\u27s Perception and Attitudes Toward Public Health Profession and National Competency Examination

One form of quality assurance is convening public health\u27s national competencies examination in academic phase which is conducted before students graduate from university. The purpose of this study was to determine students\u27s perceptions and attitudes about public health\u27s profession and national competencies examination. The design of this study was descriptive qualitative employed case study approach. Focus group discussion was used to collect data. Data were analyzed by content analysis. Students felt less confident about their identity profession so that requires motivation by lecturer. Students expressed the need to improve public health graduates\u27s competencies since academic phase. National competencies examination is important to do as a solution to guarantee the graduates\u27s quality. Implementation of the competencies test is need to consider aspects of management and technical readiness. National competencies examination is a tool that could proves the identity of public health graduates\u27s competencies. Everyone with a public health background should know that there will be a competency test then they should have an adequate preparation

Global public health training in the UK: preparing for the future.

BACKGROUND: Many major public health issues today are not confined by national boundaries. However, the global public health workforce appears unprepared to confront the challenges posed by globalization. We therefore sought to investigate whether the current UK public health training programme adequately prepares its graduates to operate in a globalized world. METHODS: We used mixed methods involving an online cross-sectional survey of UK public health trainees on the international content of the Faculty of Public Health's written examination, a qualitative review of the Faculty's 2007 training curriculum and a questionnaire survey of all training deaneries in the UK. RESULTS: We found that global health issues are not addressed by the current training curriculum or in the written examination despite trainee interest for this. Many of the deaneries were also unreceptive to international placements. CONCLUSIONS: Despite the recognized educational legitimacy of global health placements and the favourable UK policy context, the opportunities and international content of public health training remain limited. In order to retain its position as a leader in the field of public health, the UK needs to adapt its training programme to better reflect today's challenges

Models of preconception care implementation in selected countries.

Globally, maternal and child health faces diverse challenges depending on the status of the development of the country. Some countries have introduced or explored preconception care for various reasons. Falling birth rates and increasing knowledge about risk factors for adverse pregnancy outcomes led to the introduction of preconception care in Hong Kong in 1998, and South Korea in 2004. In Hong Kong, comprehensive preconception care including laboratory tests are provided to over 4000 women each year at a cost of $75 per person. In Korea, about 60$12) for preconception health care services. These case studies illustrate programmatic feasibility of preconception care services to address maternal and child health and other public health challenges in developed and emerging economies

The objective structured public health examination (OSPHE): work-based learning for a new exam

Introduction: Postgraduate education for all healthcare professionals is shifting from traditional knowledge-based models towards competency-based training and assessment. 1 Norcini’s 2003 paper on work based assessment outline’s George Miller’s pyramid framework for assessing competence (see Figure 1) – with knowledge at the base (‘knows’), competence at the next level (‘knows how’), performance above this (‘shows how’) and action (‘does’) at the top. Action is what actually occurs in day to-day practice, while the lower levels are what are more commonly assessed in an artificial examination environment. 2 The Faculty of Public Health (FPH), the standard-setting body for specialists in public health, has addressed the move towards competency-based training in two ways. The first is the development of a new and more detailed curriculum. This links competencies, training outcomes and their assessment to specific stages in training. The second is the the introduction of the new objective structured public health examination (OSPHE), which will be discussed in this paper. The OSPHE targets the ‘shows how’ level of the pyramid – measuring performance in an examination setting

National and Global Health Law: A Scholarly Examination of the Most Pressing Health Hazards

The health of individuals, families, and communities has deep, intuitive meaning. So much of what we aspire to be as individuals or as members of society relies on health. Our shared intuitions about the value of health manifest themselves in public and political concerns. The media widely reports threats to the public\u27s health, such as a traveler with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, E-coli from contaminated spinach, miners\u27 deaths, unsafe children\u27s toys, and dangerous pharmaceuticals. Election years predictably spur new, or refashioned, proposals for health care reform. And there remain enduring, intractable health hazards, such as tobacco, obesity, motor vehicle crashes, and endemic diseases such as HIV/AIDS. The public hears much less about the health of the world\u27s poorest people, except perhaps during extreme events, such as a refugee crisis or a tsunami. But the world\u27s poor suffer multiple, compounding disadvantages that well surpass the burdens experienced by those in richer countries-poverty, famine, tropical diseases, and often the atrocities of war and dislocation, to name a few

Health Information and Social Security Entitlements

This study examines whether new health information, obtained through medical screening, affects entitlements to Social Security benefits. Random assignment of information is derived from a unique feature of the Continuous National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. To examine the effect of information on entitlements, the survey data are matched to administrative data from the Social Security Administration. The results suggest that new health information leads to delayed entitlements, particularly among workers near the early retirement age

Breast Self-Examination Teaching for Women in Chemical Dependency Programs

Fifty-two women from 5 chemical dependency programs participated in a 1 hour health education program teaching breast self-examination using breast models. Tactile skills and general information about breast cancer and breast self-examination were presented. The program was evaluated for its ability to teach this high risk population. Nine true/false questions and lump detection skills were evaluated using_a pretest/posttest non-experimental design. A level of significance for the true/false questions was set at .01, and for lump detection skills it was set at .05. Dependent t tests was used to statistically analyze the data. Participants improved their general knowledge about breast cancer and self-examination as a result of this program (p \u3c.01). Lump detection skills also improved (p \u3c.05). This study indicates health education programs are of value and can potentially decrease the survival discrepancy for breast cancer for a specific high risk population

Obesity, BMI, and Diet Quality: How does the South Measure Up?

This paper examines regional differences in obesity rates, Body Mass Index (BMI) and dietary quality, using data from the 1999-2002 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), Mobile Examination Center (MEC). For women, BMI and obesity prevalence may be higher in the Deep South states, but the difference is explained by demographic characteristics. Diet quality was found to be lower in the South.obesity, diet quality, food insecurity, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety, Health Economics and Policy, I10, I30,