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Bashkin O, Dopelt K, Mor Z, Leighton L, Otok R, Duplaga M, MacLeod F, De Nooijer J, Neumark Y, Paillard-Borg S, Tulchinsky T, Zelber-Sagi S, Davidovitch N. The Future Public Health Workforce in a Changing World: A Conceptual Framework for a European-Israeli Knowledge Transfer Project. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2021; 18:9265. [PMID: 34501853 PMCID: PMC8430594 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18179265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2021] [Revised: 08/28/2021] [Accepted: 08/31/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
Health services quality and sustainability rely mainly on a qualified workforce. Adequately trained public health personnel protect and promote health, avert health disparities, and allow rapid response to health emergencies. Evaluations of the healthcare workforce typically focus on physicians and nurses in curative medical venues. Few have evaluated public health workforce capacity building or sought to identify gaps between the academic training of public health employees and the needs of the healthcare organizations in which they are employed. This project report describes the conceptual framework of "Sharing European Educational Experience in Public Health for Israel (SEEEPHI): harmonization, employability, leadership, and outreach"-a multinational Erasmus+ Capacity Building in Higher Education funded project. By sharing European educational experience and knowledge, the project aims to enhance professionalism and strengthen leadership aspects of the public health workforce in Israel to meet the needs of employers and the country. The project's work packages, each jointly led by an Israeli and European institution, include field qualification analysis, mapping public health academic training programs, workforce adaptation, and building leadership capacity. In the era of global health changes, it is crucial to assess the capacity building of a well-qualified and competent workforce that enables providing good health services, reaching out to minorities, preventing health inequalities, and confronting emerging health challenges. We anticipate that the methods developed and the lessons learned within the Israeli context will be adaptable and adoptable by other countries through local and cultural adjustments.
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- Osnat Bashkin
- Department of Public Health, Ashkelon Academic College, Ben Tzvi 12, Ashkelon 78211, Israel; (K.D.); (Z.M.); (T.T.)
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- Department of Public Health, Ashkelon Academic College, Ben Tzvi 12, Ashkelon 78211, Israel; (K.D.); (Z.M.); (T.T.)
- Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, P.O. Box 653, Beer Sheva 8410501, Israel;
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- Department of Public Health, Ashkelon Academic College, Ben Tzvi 12, Ashkelon 78211, Israel; (K.D.); (Z.M.); (T.T.)
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- The Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER), Avenue de Tervueren 153, 1150 Brussels, Belgium; (L.L.); (R.O.)
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- The Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER), Avenue de Tervueren 153, 1150 Brussels, Belgium; (L.L.); (R.O.)
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- Department of Health Promotion and e-Health, Institute of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Medical College, ul. Skawińska 8, 31-066 Kraków, Poland;
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- School of Public Health, University College Cork, T12 XF62 Cork, Ireland;
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- School of Health Professions Education, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands;
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- Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Hebrew University-Hadassah, Jerusalem 91120, Israel;
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- Department of Health Sciences, The Swedish Red Cross University College (SRCUC), P.O. Box 1059, 14121 Huddinge, Sweden;
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- Department of Public Health, Ashkelon Academic College, Ben Tzvi 12, Ashkelon 78211, Israel; (K.D.); (Z.M.); (T.T.)
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- Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Haifa, 199 Aba Khoushy Ave. Mount Carmel, Haifa 3498838, Israel;
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- Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, P.O. Box 653, Beer Sheva 8410501, Israel;
- The Israeli Association of Public Health Physicians (IPAPH), Israeli Medical Association, P.O. Box 3566, Ramat Gan 5213604, Israel
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Rahu M, Vlassov VV, Pega F, Andreeva T, Ay P, Baburin A, Bencko V, Csépe P, Gebska-Kuczerowska A, Ondrusová M, Ribak J. Population health and status of epidemiology: WHO European Region I. Int J Epidemiol 2014; 42:870-85. [PMID: 23918855 DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyt054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND This article of the International Epidemiological Association commissioned paper series stocktakes the population health and status of epidemiology in 21 of the 53 countries of the WHO European Region. By United Nations geographical classification, these countries belong to Eastern Europe, Western Asia and South-Central Asia. METHODS Published data were used to describe population health indicators and risk factors. Epidemiological training and research was assessed based on author knowledge, information searches and E-mail survey of experts. Bibliometric analyses determined epidemiological publication outputs. RESULTS Between-country differences in life expectancy, amount and profile of disease burden and prevalence of risk factors are marked. Epidemiological training is affected by ongoing structural reforms of educational systems. Training is advanced in Israel and several Eastern European countries. Epidemiological research is mainly university-based in most countries, but predominantly conducted by governmental research institutes in several countries of the former Soviet Union. Funding is generally external and limited, partially due to competition from and prioritization of biomedical research. Multiple relevant professional societies exist, especially in Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary. Few of the region's 39 epidemiological academic journals have international currency. The number of epidemiological publications per population is highest for Israel and lowest for South-Central Asian countries. CONCLUSIONS Epidemiological capacity will continue to be heterogeneous across the region and depend more on countries' individual historical, social, political and economic conditions and contexts than their epidemiologists' successive efforts. National and international research funding, and within- and between-country collaborations should be enhanced, especially for South-Central Asian countries.
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- Mati Rahu
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, National Institute for Health Development, Tallinn, Estonia.
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