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

Whittaker, Paula; Pegorie, Matthieu; Read, Donald A.; Birt, Christopher A.; Foldspang, Anders

doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckp157

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“…Likewise, local health managers were favoured with the position by ties of kinship or political affiliations. In addition, new competencies have arisen, alien to the managers' qualifications and training, and this is a problem found in various countries (Battaglio Junior and Condrey, 2009;Kebede et al, 2010;Whitaker et al, 2010). The shortage of specific training in health management reported by the subjects proves the difficulty faced by local managers in the light of their new attributions.…”

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Public health management in Brazilian small municipalities with low municipal human development indices (HDI-M): a quest for innovation

Schwab

Bisinelli

França

et al. 2014

IJIL

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This study deals with public health management in small Brazilian municipalities with low HDI-M through analysis of financial resources. Findings indicated some innovations, but not enough, with managers needing specific administration learning, although they state their desire to improve services. Unstructured reports do not contribute to health planning, showing no relationship between the scope of health actions and financial resources. Management needs to evolve to intersectoral decisions, with social participation in planning. This would make it possible to solve more health problems and provide a universal and equitable service to the population in the process of National Health System decentralisation.

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Public health management in Brazilian small municipalities with low municipal human development indices (HDI-M): a quest for innovation

Schwab

Bisinelli

França

et al. 2014

IJIL

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“…To achieve the proposed aim, we organized and conducted three exploratory workshop activities based on focus-groups (Evanghelidis, 2005;Zappas, 2008;Whittake, Pegorie, Read, Birt, & Foldspang, 2010), a set of 11 semi-structured questions being the framework on which the debate was built for each of them (Krueger & Casey, 2005;Agrabian, 2004;Bulai, 2000;Chelcea, 2004;Iluț., 1997;Morgan, 1998;Vaughn & all, 1996). Previously, starting from a suggestive didactical movie (Reputeagency, 2005), there has been a briefly update of the theoretical information on assertive communication and assertive behaviour.…”

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Strategies Of Assertive Communication In The Teaching Profession

Anghel¹

2019

The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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The aim of the study is to collect and interpret empirical data to outline the perception of students about the role of assertive communication in inter-human communication and into the teacher-student communication. In pursuit of this intention, we organized and conducted three exploratory workshop activities based on the focus group. The concepts of didactic profession and assertive communication are delimitated from the perspective of the latest theories. There are presented arguments concerning the importance of integrated development of some teaching competence to the students who are trained for teacher profession such as: communication skills, self-assertion and self-management. The research focuses on several essential dimensions of assertive communication, namely, initiating communication, selfesteem, defending one's own rights, expressing positive and negative emotions. Its results give us insights into the students' personal perspectives on building the teacher-student relationship, on the concrete selfassertion strategies they use consciously, on handling conflicts and injustice situations, and on the techniques used to manage emotions in the context of didactic relations. Starting from the types of assertive behaviours manifested by students in communication a structure of training and personal development needs of students is being developed, as well as a series of educational strategies that can meet the expectations of future teachers.

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“…Since the 90s, in Europe (31, 32), training programmes are increasingly structured around exit competences, in terms of what the graduate should be able to do in order to achieve certain performance standards expected by future employers. Public health competences may be defined as a complex set of measurable behaviours made up of knowledge, skills and attitudes that can be shown to predict and measure effective performance (33).…”

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Education for public health in Europe and its global outreach

Bjegović-Mikanović

Jovic-Vranes

Czabanowska

et al. 2014

Global Health Action

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IntroductionAt the present time, higher education institutions dealing with education for public health in Europe and beyond are faced with a complex and comprehensive task of responding to global health challenges.ReviewLiterature reviews in public health and global health and exploration of internet presentations of regional and global organisations dealing with education for public health were the main methods employed in the work presented in this paper. Higher academic institutions are searching for appropriate strategies in competences-based education, which will increase the global attractiveness of their academic programmes and courses for continuous professional development. Academic professionals are taking advantage of blended learning and new web technologies. In Europe and beyond they are opening up debates about the scope of public health and global health. Nevertheless, global health is bringing revitalisation of public health education, which is recognised as one of the core components by many other academic institutions involved in global health work. More than ever, higher academic institutions for public health are recognising the importance of institutional partnerships with various organisations and efficient modes of cooperation in regional and global networks. Networking in a global setting is bringing new opportunities, but also opening debates about global harmonisation of competence-based education to achieve functional knowledge, increase mobility of public health professionals, better employability and affordable performance.ConclusionsAs public health opportunities and threats are increasingly global, higher education institutions in Europe and in other regions have to look beyond national boundaries and participate in networks for education, research and practice.

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

Cited by 14 publications

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Public health management in Brazilian small municipalities with low municipal human development indices (HDI-M): a quest for innovation

Public health management in Brazilian small municipalities with low municipal human development indices (HDI-M): a quest for innovation

Strategies Of Assertive Communication In The Teaching Profession

Education for public health in Europe and its global outreach

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