The three domains of public health: An internationally relevant basis for public health education?

Thorpe, Allison; Griffiths, Siân; Jewell, Tony; Adshead, Fiona

doi:10.1016/j.puhe.2007.05.013

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“…The search was limited to research published in English from 2000 to 31st January 2021. An Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) filter in development by the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) was used to ensure retrieval of literature from relevant countries [ 8 ]. Searches were conducted in February 2021.…”

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Delivery of public health interventions by the ambulance sector: a scoping review

Ablard,

Miller,

Poulton

et al. 2023

BMC Public Health

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Background With millions of unscheduled patient contacts every year and increasing call outs clustered around the most deprived communities, it is clear the ambulance sector could have a role to play in improving population health. However, the application and value of a public health approach within the ambulance sector has not been comprehensively explored. A scoping review was undertaken to explore the role of the ambulance sector in the delivery of public health interventions and what impact this has on population health and ambulance sector outcomes. Methods A search strategy was developed on MEDLINE and translated to other major medical and health related bibliographic databases (Embase; CINAHL; HMIC; Science and Social Sciences Citation Index; Cochrane Library) to identify literature published since 2000 in OECD countries. Targeted grey literature, reference list, and citation searching was also carried out. Search results were downloaded to Microsoft Excel and screened by three reviewers according to pre-determined inclusion / exclusion criteria. Data from included studies, such as the type of activity noted within the paper, the population involved and the public health approach that was utilised, was extracted from within the paper using a data extraction form and narratively synthesised. Results Fifty-two references were included in the final review (37 database searching; 9 reference list searching; 6 grey literature). Included articles were categorised according to the relevant public health domains and subdomains as articulated by the UK Faculty of Public Health: Health improvement domain: Public health education and advice (Health promotion sub-domain) (n=13) Emergency Services personnel providing vaccines (Disease prevention sub-domain) (n=1) Health care public health domain Paramedicine (Service delivery sub-domain) (n=30) Screening tools and referral pathways used by the ambulance sector (Service delivery sub-domain) (n=28) Health intelligence using ambulance sector data (population health management sub-domain) (n=26) Of note, some domains (e.g. health protection) returned nil results. Discussion The scoping review demonstrates the breadth of public health related activities in which the ambulance sector is involved. However, an overemphasis on demand management outcomes precludes definitive conclusions on the impact of ambulance sector-led public health initiatives on public health outcomes. Future evaluations of public health initiatives should incorporate wider health system perspectives beyond the immediately apparent remit of the ambulance sector.

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confidence: 99%

Delivery of public health interventions by the ambulance sector: a scoping review

Ablard,

Miller,

Poulton

et al. 2023

BMC Public Health

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“…Epidemiology, biostatistics, and health information skills are core to the 3 domains of health protection, health improvement, and health service quality improvement. 1 Quantitative skills are essential for policymakers and practitioners to identify problems and to inform priority setting of public health efforts.…”

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Future of Public Health Training: What Are the Challenges? What Might the Solutions Look Like?

Baker

Dingle

Dunne

2018

Asia Pac J Public Health

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The Asia-Pacific region has rapidly changing health needs. This reshaping of health priorities is directly affecting current and future public health education. This brief review focuses on foundational public health skills including epidemiology, biostatistics, and health informatics. Epidemiological skills, in particular, are essential for policymakers and practitioners to identify the emergence of problems and to inform priority setting of public health efforts. Training needs to move beyond didactic, passive learning methods in class settings to approaches that engage and challenge students and academics in active, flexible learning and realistic problem-solving. We provide an overview of future trends in public health training in the Asia-Pacific region and illustrate the diversity of online training resources globally that can enrich staff and student skills and complement our active, class-based teaching. Keywords Epidemiology, public health, public health training, active learning, Asia-Pacific Consortium for Public Health A major reshaping of the burden of disease in the Asia-Pacific region is occurring as populations age, become more affluent and sedentary, and communicable diseases are more controlled. The nature of communities and their public health services are undergoing significant transformation. Although the broad goals of public health-to promote and protect the health and well-being of people and their communities-remain constant, the strategies and methods we apply must be contemporary and responsive to rapid social, economic, and technological changes. Public Health Skills in the Context of Rapid Change Epidemiology, biostatistics, and health information skills are core to the 3 domains of health protection, health improvement, and health service quality improvement. 1 Quantitative skills are essential for policymakers and practitioners to identify problems and to inform priority setting of public health efforts.

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“…A framework consisting of three domains of public health is useful to manage the wide nature of public health and to clarify its boundaries in terms of public health practice and public health education ( 15 ). The three domains, health improvement, health protection, and health services, are inter-related with a common core (Figure 1 ).…”

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Public Health Education in South Asia: A Basis for Structuring a Master Degree Course

Karkee

2014

Front. Public Health

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Countries in South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) lack enough public health workforces to address their poor public health situation. Recently, there have been efforts to develop capacity building in public health in these countries by producing competent public health workforce through public health institutes and schools. Considering the wide nature of public health, the public health education and curricula should be linked with skills, knowledge, and competencies needed for public health practice and professionalism. The 3 domains of public health practice and the 10 essential public health services provide an operational framework to explore this link between public health practice and public health education. This framework incorporates five core areas of public health education. A master degree course in public health can be structured by incorporating these core areas as basic and reinforcing one of these areas as an elective followed by a dissertation work.

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The three domains of public health: An internationally relevant basis for public health education?

Cited by 9 publications

References 18 publications

Delivery of public health interventions by the ambulance sector: a scoping review

Delivery of public health interventions by the ambulance sector: a scoping review

Future of Public Health Training: What Are the Challenges? What Might the Solutions Look Like?

Public Health Education in South Asia: A Basis for Structuring a Master Degree Course

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