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The European Journal of Public Health, doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckp043
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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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The harmonization of the medical speciality in Public Health in the EU countries—a challenge for the profession

Ragnar Westerling1,2,3

1Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Social Medicine, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
2Department of Social Medicine, Academic Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden
3President of the UEMS section for Public Health

Correspondence: Ragnar Westerling, Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala Science Park, SE-751 85 Uppsala, Sweden, tel: +46 (0) 18 6113568, fax: +46 (0) 18 506404, e-mail: ragnar.westerling@pubcare.uu.se

Received March 6, 2009, accepted March 9, 2009

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   Introduction
 
Facing the challenges for Public Health in Europe it is of importance to outline a common strategy for a European training programme in Public Health. At present the medical speciality of Public Health is strengthening its position in the EU medical specialist system. According to the present EU decision the speciality Public Health Medicine will be automatically recognized in all EU countries, i.e. a specialist trained in one EU country will be recognized as a specialist in all EU countries.1 As a consequence, Public Health today is one of the established specialities in EU. Thus, the need for harmonization of the specialist training is further emphasized. The objective of this paper is to discuss the process of harmonization of the speciality in Public Health in the EU countries.

Public Health as a medical speciality focuses on the health of the population. In its broadest sense Public Health includes all measures . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   The core content of the medical speciality in Public Health
 

   The content and competencies of the specialist training
 

   Organization of the speciality and specialist training in Public Health
 

   Fields for discussion
 

   Appendix 1
 
Medical specialities in Public Health recognized by the EU 2005 (1)

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