Regional collaboration in public health training and research among countries of South Eastern Europe
Genc Burazeri1, Ulrich Laaser2, Vesna Bjegovic3, Lidia Georgieva4 on behalf of the: Consortium for Public Health Collaboration in South Eastern Europe5
1 Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Tirana University, Albania
2 Section of International Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Bielefeld, Germany
3 Institute of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, FR Yugoslavia
4 Department of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Faculty of Public Health, Medical University, Sofia, Bulgaria
5 See at: http://www.snz.hr/ph-see
Correspondence: Genc Burazeri MD, MPH, Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tirana, Rr. "Dibres", N.371, Tirana, Albania, tel: +355682150535, fax: +3554232102, Email: gburazeri{at}yahoo.com
It is argued that each country of South Eastern Europe should have its own school of public health. However, a basic prerequisite of modern public health training is the comprehensiveness of the programme and a worldview approach. Most of the countries of South Eastern Europe face the same difficulties to adapt their inherited communist structures of public health training to Western standards. A regional collaboration would facilitate the process of establishing schools of public health in all countries of the region and support the training of public health professionals at all levels.
Key points
- South East Europe includes Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Macedonia, Moldavia, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, and Slovenia.
- Public health institutions in South East Europe face similar difficulties to adapt their inherited teaching structures to Western standards.
- Public health institutions in South East Europe should make a joint effort towards establishing regional training programmes.
- A regional approach in public health training would enable an efficient use of resources in countries of South East Europe.
Keywords: public health, regional approach, school of public health, South Eastern Europe, training programme
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