Educating the public health workforce: Issues and challenges
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Educating the public health workforce: Issues and challenges
BACKGROUND In public health, as well as other health education contexts, there is increasing recognition of the transformation in public health practice and the necessity for educational providers to keep pace. Traditionally, public health education has been at the postgraduate level; however, over the past decade an upsurge in the growth of undergraduate public health degrees has taken place. ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Australia and New Zealand Health Policy
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1743-8462
DOI: 10.1186/1743-8462-6-8