Epidemiology training and public health practice

Epidemiology in public health practice

• Several models exist for planning public health policies and programmes. Three important ones are: the Precede-Proceed model, the Five-Stage Community Organisation model and the Intervention Mapping model. • These models provide a detailed insight into the processes that take place during the four stages of the public health cycle. • Analysis of these models results in the following seven epi...

[Public health: knowledge, practice and training].

This paper presents a discussion regarding Public Health's main challenges: knowledge of it, professional practice and training human resources. It begins by recognising Latin-America's unequal and polar socio-sanitary context and the sanitary field's myriad single referents, paying special attention to essential public health functions, the Millennium development goals and the Latin-American A...

Methods in epidemiology and public health: does practice match theory?

Epidemiology is widely perceived as a public health discipline within which methodology matters. Methods dominate educational curriculums and influential textbooks. 3 Epidemiological societies regularly feature methods sessions at their national and international meetings and, at least informally, the discipline recognises the methodologists who study the methods and the practitioners who use t...

Teaching/Training and Practice of Public Health/PSM/Community Medicine

[Traditional epidemiology, modern epidemiology and public health].

There have been significant developments in epidemiologic methodology during the past century, including changes in basic concepts, methods of data analysis, and methods of exposure measurement. However, the rise of modern epidemiology has been a mixed blessing, and the new paradigm has major shortcomings, both in public health and scientific terms. The changes in the paradigm have not been neu...