The need to integrate Public Health courses in Health Professions curriculum

Clinical prevention and population health: curriculum framework for health professions.

The Clinical Prevention and Population Health Curriculum Framework is the initial product of the Healthy People Curriculum Task Force convened by the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine and the Association of Academic Health Centers. The Task Force includes representatives of allopathic and osteopathic medicine, nursing and nurse practitioners, dentistry, pharmacy, and physician assi...

Changing the Conversation, Why We Need to Reframe Corruption as a Public Health Issue; Comment on “We Need to Talk About Corruption in Health Systems”

There has been slow progress with finding practical solutions to health systems corruption, a topic that has long languished in policy-makers “too difficult tray.” Efforts to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) provide a new imperative for addressing the long-standing problem of corruption in health systems making fighting corruption at all levels and in all its for...

The need to pay attention to differences in health literacy and knowledge in health education interventions

The Health Literacy (HL) is an individual and social capacity for access, understanding, evaluation of information and health services, and optimal utilization of it for health promotion [1]. Today, HL has been recognized as an important and vital indicator of the results and costs of health care the need for the effective health care system, has a good level of health literacy [2]. According t...

Canadian medical schools slow to integrate health informatics into curriculum.

Relevance of Public Health BSc Curriculum to Job Requirements and Health System Expectations: Views of Graduates on Courses Syllabi and Content

Introduction: Public health experts play an important role in implementation of health centers’ programs. The comments and suggestions of graduate employees of this field about the level of functionality of the curriculum to professional requirements needed by graduates could help determine the shortcomings. This study aimed to investigate the level of coordination of curriculum and syllabus of...