Gesundheitsförderung und Prävention im Kontext von Public Health

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

“…The content-based analyses revealed five major categories: 1) profession, 2) ethics, 3) education/training, 4) competencies and 5) quality. As the focus and content of the literature identified in the TABLE 1 | International efforts to foster the professionalization of health promotion that are illustrated by several indicators found in literature [2,14,21,22,[35][36][37] (Professional characteristics of health promotion: a scoping review of German and international literature, Switzerland, 2021).…”

“…While HP is clearly a central part of PH, it is important to consider how the two are connected [21,22]. As in HP, the professionalization discussion is also ongoing for PH [10,[23][24][25].…”

“…PH has to recognize the necessity of specific skills for HP [34]. There are international efforts to foster the professionalization of HP that are illustrated by several indicators found in literature [2,14,21,22,[35][36][37] and shortly listed in Table 1. Although the specialization of competencies in HP is a desirable outcome to tackle todays' pressing health problems to foster quality standard in HP practice, a gradual separation between PH and HP represents a major challenge for HP and PH because the workforce capacity of each discipline may be reduced by a segregation of these interconnected disciplines.…”

“…As in HP, the professionalization discussion is also ongoing for PH [ 10 , 23 – 25 ]. PH deals with a great variety of issues–including prevention, health care and tackling the social determinants of health [ 21 , 26 ] (e.g., see 10 Essential Public Health Operations; [ 27 ]) making PH very broad and complex to capture [ 10 , 26 , 28 – 30 ]. Moreover, PH is described as research orientated [ 28 , 31 ], and still overlaid by biomedical principles [ 32 , 33 ] whereas HP is clearly practically orientated to address the socioenvironmental determinants of health at a community level with a bio-psycho-social perspective.…”

Professional Identity Formation in Health Promotion Practitioners: Students’ Perspectives during an Undergraduate Program in Switzerland

“…HP is seen as field of action of public health (PH) with greatest practical relevance and therefore, the need for special competencies in HP [23]. PH deals with a great variety of issues-including epidemiology, health care and health services research [23,24] making PH very broad and complex to capture [24][25][26][27][28].…”