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The European Journal of Public Health Advance Access published online on October 12, 2009
The European Journal of Public Health, doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckp157
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

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Do academic competencies relate to ‘real life’ public health practice? A report from two exploratory workshops

Paula J. Whittaker1, Matthieu Pegorie1, Donald Read1, Christopher A. Birt2,3,4 and Anders Foldspang5

1 Mersey Deanery, Merseyside, UK
2 Division of Public Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
3 Trustees of Heart of Mersey, Merseyside, UK
4 Association of Schools of PH in the European Region (ASPHER)
5 School of Public Health, Aarhus University, Denmark

Correspondence: Christopher A. Birt, Division of Public Health, Whelan Building, University of Liverpool, Brownlow Hill, Liverpool, L69 3GB, UK, tel: +44 151 794 5606, e-mail: christopher.birt@liverpool.ac.uk

Received August 28, 2009, accepted September 7, 2009

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   From academic competencies ...
 
Public health (PH) organizations in different parts of the world (such as North America1,2) have recently been seeking to define competencies relevant to PH practice. The Association of Schools of PH in the European Region (ASPHER) has initiated a programme to produce a European PH competency framework.3,4 ASPHER invited all member schools to participate in brainstorming workshops which yielded a provisional list of competencies.3 These were discussed and supplemented with more competencies at two European conferences (at Aarhus University, Denmark, in April 2008, and at Ecole des Hautes Etudes de Santé Publique (EHESP), Paris, France, in October 2008), with the participation of representatives of national health systems as well as of schools . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   ... to their application in ‘practical’ applied service public health
 

   Participants’ comments
 

   Developing a European competency framework together
 

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