Introduction As Kazakhstan faces making investments in their extensive vocational education and training system, there are important forces driving the vocational education and training system in Kazakhstan to bring employers more actively into the educational process. The first reason to engage employers is to improve system level governance, to engage social partners in planning for vocationa...

Historically, in the absence of baccalaureate education in the public health, entry level education was offered at the graduate level in the Master of Public Health (MPH) degree. As MPH education was not preceded by baccalaureate education in the discipline, there are not typically prerequisite requirements for MPH admission, and introductory coursework in public health has always been offered ...

The 1991 paper, "Physical education's role in public health" described the importance of physical education in addressing public health problems. On its 20th anniversary, this article reviews accomplishments in improving the health impact of physical education and identifies areas lacking progress. Major accomplishments include development of evidence-based programs, documentation of health and...

INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND Undergraduate education for public health has grown rapidly in the last decade since the Institute of Medicine recommended that “. . .all undergraduates should have access to education in public health.” Despite the growth of undergraduate education for public health in 4-year institutions, public health education in community colleges is at an early stage of develop...

OBJECTIVE To undertake a meta-synthesis of the literature on the main concepts and practices related to permanent education in health. METHODS A bibliographical search was conducted for original articles in the PubMed, Web of Science, LILACS, IBECS and SciELO databases, using the following search terms: "public health professional education", "permanent education", "continuing education", "pe...