Jarillo-Soto Edgar C, López-Arellano Oliva
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco.
Rev Salud Publica (Bogota). 2007 Jan-Mar;9(1):140-54. doi: 10.1590/s0124-00642007000100014.
This paper presents a discussion regarding Public Health's main challenges: knowledge of it, professional practice and training human resources. It begins by recognising Latin-America's unequal and polar socio-sanitary context and the sanitary field's myriad single referents, paying special attention to essential public health functions, the Millennium development goals and the Latin-American Association of Public Health Education. Emphasis is placed on three components: knowledge of public health (levels, domains, disciplines, temporality, dimensions and complexity), social practice (state-public, collective general practice and group professional practice) and human resources' training (professional, technical, training and up-dating). An essential challenge is then identified for each of these components and a set of proposals to be launched from the Latin-American Association of Public Health Education is outlined (interchange, partnerships and advocacy).
对公共卫生的认知、专业实践以及人力资源培训。文章开篇就认识到拉丁美洲社会卫生状况不平等且两极分化，以及卫生领域存在众多单一指标，特别关注基本公共卫生职能、千年发展目标和拉丁美洲公共卫生教育协会。重点放在三个方面：公共卫生知识（层次、领域、学科、时效性、维度和复杂性）、社会实践（国家-公众、集体一般实践和团体专业实践）以及人力资源培训（专业人员、技术人员、培训和更新）。随后为每个方面确定了一项关键挑战，并概述了拉丁美洲公共卫生教育协会将推出的一系列建议（交流、伙伴关系和宣传）。
