Melville Lilach, Howat Peter, Shilton Trevor, Weinstein Ruth
Ministry of Health, Israel. Correspondence to Lilach Melville, Deputy Manager, Department of Health Education and Health Promotion, Public Health Services, Ministry of Health, 20 King David Street, Jerusalem, Israel.
Promot Educ. 2006;13(3):178-84.
Health promotion competencies can help inform health promotion training and practice. Competency sets have been developed in countries with formal educational, professional and policy infrastructures for health promotion, but little action has occurred in countries where such infrastructures are only emerging. This study examines the views of Israeli health promotion practitioners about the competencies relevant for health promotion practice and compares them with the perceptions held by their Australian counterparts. This study builds on a growing body of literature addressing health promotion competencies and workforce planning. It examines the views of Israeli health promotion practitioners about the competencies relevant for health promotion practice in Israel, a country where health promotion is in its infancy and compares them with the perceptions held by their counterparts in Australia, another multi-cultural country, where health promotion practitioners are readily employed, academic teaching is established and discourse regarding health promotion competencies had been studied. Methodology used in a previous Australian study was adapted to suit Israeli requirements. A literature search was conducted and an expert panel recruited to review and amend the list of competencies compiled in Australia. The original questionnaire was modified to suit Israeli requirements. Several new competencies were added. The questionnaire was posted to 97 health promotion professionals. The returned questionnaires were analysed and compared to the Australian results. Differences were found mainly in areas requiring specific health promotion training.
健康促进能力有助于为健康促进培训与实践提供信息。在拥有正式的健康促进教育、专业及政策基础设施的国家，已经制定了能力标准集，但在那些此类基础设施刚刚起步的国家，相关行动却很少。本研究考察了以色列健康促进从业者对健康促进实践相关能力的看法，并将其与澳大利亚同行的看法进行比较。本研究建立在越来越多关于健康促进能力和劳动力规划的文献基础之上。它考察了以色列健康促进从业者对以色列健康促进实践相关能力的看法，以色列是一个健康促进尚处于起步阶段的国家，并将其与另一个多元文化国家澳大利亚同行的看法进行比较，在澳大利亚，健康促进从业者有大量就业机会，学术教学已经确立，并且关于健康促进能力的论述也已得到研究。之前澳大利亚一项研究中使用的方法被加以调整以适应以色列的要求。进行了文献检索，并招募了一个专家小组来审查和修改在澳大利亚编制的能力清单。原始问卷被修改以适应以色列的要求。增加了一些新的能力。问卷被寄给了97名健康促进专业人员。对回收的问卷进行了分析，并与澳大利亚的结果进行了比较。主要在需要特定健康促进培训的领域发现了差异。
