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The European Journal of Public Health 2009 19(3):232-235; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckp069
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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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Public health capacity building—not only the property of the medical profession

Christopher A. Birt1 and Anders Foldspang2

1 Executive Board Member, ASPHER; Senior Fellow, Division of Public Health, University of Liverpool; and Co-Chair of the Board of Trustees of Heart of Mersey, Merseyside, UK
2 Past President, ASPHER; Professor, Director, Master of Public Health Education Programme, School of Public Health, University of Aarhus, Denmark

Correspondence: Christopher A. Birt, Division of Public Health, Whelan Building, University of Liverpool, Brownlow Hill, Liverpool, L69 3GB, UK, tel: +44 151 478 1807, fax: +44 151 794 5588, e-mail: christopher.birt@liverpool.ac.uk

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   Introduction
 
In this issue of the Journal, Westerling1 provides a comprehensive overview of the work performed by the Public Health (PH) Section of the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS), as this relates to the further development and harmonization of medical specialization in PH within the EU. He makes some very important points, many of which effectively have been overlooked and ignored, including by the European Commission, for much too long. His points regarding the harmonization of specialist training, the need for uniformly high standards of PH practice across the EU, as well as for high quality of education and training of PH specialists, and concerning the urgent need to define the core content of the specialty, are all well made. However, although all this is splendid stuff, he deludes himself if he believes that this remains a matter only for the medical profession: PH in the 21st century has become . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Multi-disciplinarity
 

   The creation of ‘100% PH professionals’
 

   Competencies
 

   Building a new integrated European PH workforce
 

   Conclusions
 

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