Framing public health education to meet the needs of professionals for war and peacebuilding: A commentary

Colette Cunningham; Lisa  Wandschneider

Framing public health education to meet the needs of professionals for war and peacebuilding: A commentary

Publication date: 2022

Public Health and Governance, 2022, Volume 20, Issue 1, pp. 19 - 22

https://doi.org/10.4467/20842627OZ.22.006.16432

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Framing public health education to meet the needs of professionals for war and peacebuilding: A commentary

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Public health plays a crucial role in restoring, protecting and promoting health of affected populations in times of war and armed conflict. Even though health effects of war are well explored, the development of competencies to address the public health impact had received little attention in public health curricula. We suggest building upon the WHO-ASPHER Competency Framework originally designed to strengthen Public Health Services in the European Region. It provides an already established framework for Schools of Public Health and additional public health organizations and, at the same time, can be extended to understand and prevent the political, economic, social, and cultural determinants of war.

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public health education, war, war prevention; ASPHER, Europa, edukacja dla zdrowia publicznego, kompetencje, pokój, specjaliści zdrowia publicznego, wojna, ASPHER, Europe, competencies, peacebuilding, peace through health, public health professionals

ASPHER, Europe, competencies, peacebuilding, peace through health, public health professionals, public health education, war, war prevention

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Information: Public Health and Governance, 2022, Volume 20, Issue 1, pp. 19 - 22

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/20842627OZ.22.006.16432

Article type: Original article

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Framing public health education to meet the needs of professionals for war and peacebuilding: A commentary

English:

Framing public health education to meet the needs of professionals for war and peacebuilding: A commentary

Authors

Colette Cunningham

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8641-341X

School of Public Health, University College Cork, Ireland

Lisa Wandschneider

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7527-0353

Department of Epidemiology and International Public Health, School of Public Health, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

Published at: 2022

Article status: Open

Licence: CC BY

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Colette Cunningham (Author) - 50%

Lisa Wandschneider (Author) - 50%

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