Health Communication as a Public Health Training and Workforce Development Issue
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Educating and training the public health workforce.
We do not know the number of institutions where public health and its closely related topics are taught and trained. According to current estimates, there are about 400 schools of public health worldwide, plus an unknown number of units or departments specifically devoted to hygiene, epidemiology, social medicine, etc. This number is rising and, interestingly, a large part of the increase is ta...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0090-0036,1541-0048
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2015.302748e10.2