Public Health Education, Indian Institute of Public Health, New Delhi, India.
Indian J Public Health. 2012 Jan-Mar;56(1):12-6. doi: 10.4103/0019-557X.96950.
In order to respond to the changing paradigm of public health challenges, India needs adequately trained public health professionals. Public health education is a tool to create public health professionals. Public health education in India is at cross-roads on several fronts. Traditionally, public health education in India was offered through medical schools and was open for medical graduates only. However, recently the country has witnessed an emergence of institutions offering public health programs to nonmedical background graduates. An examination of the history and current status of public health education can provide us with an insight into the evolution of the discipline in the country. This is important as in order to respond to the public health education challenges in the present time, we need to understand the historical directions taken by the discipline in the past. This review captures how the public health education efforts in the country have been aided by concerted actions within the discipline and by an enabling environment and a positive intent at the national level, whereby we can better understand the context for the recent developments in Indian public health.
为了应对公共卫生挑战模式的变化，印度需要有足够训练的公共卫生专业人员。公共卫生教育是培养公共卫生专业人员的工具。印度的公共卫生教育在几个方面都处于十字路口。传统上，印度的公共卫生教育是通过医学院提供的，只对医学毕业生开放。然而，最近，该国出现了一些为非医学背景的毕业生提供公共卫生项目的机构。对公共卫生教育历史和现状的考察，可以使我们深入了解该学科在该国的发展演变。这一点很重要，因为为了应对当前的公共卫生教育挑战，我们需要了解过去该学科所经历的历史方向。本综述阐述了在学科内部的协同行动以及国家层面的有利环境和积极意愿的帮助下，该国的公共卫生教育工作是如何取得进展的，从而使我们能够更好地了解印度公共卫生领域最近的发展情况。
