Figueroa Jorge L, Birch David A, Rasar King Laura, Cottrell Randall R
University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, USA
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA.
Health Promot Pract. 2015 Jan;16(1):115-21. doi: 10.1177/1524839914535778. Epub 2014 Jun 4.
The purpose of this article is to provide a brief background of quality assurance efforts in health education, provide a brief overview of the new Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) accreditation process for stand-alone baccalaureate public health programs that prepare health education specialists, and describe the experience of two academic programs in reviewing their curricula for coverage of the newly approved CEPH requirements. The University of Alabama and the University of North Carolina Wilmington undertook a curriculum mapping exercise identifying which courses in their programs Introduced, Reinforced, and/or Covered each of the Critical Components Elements identified by CEPH. The mapping process is described, and recommendations for other programs considering accreditation under the newly adopted CEPH standards are provided.
本文旨在提供健康教育质量保证工作的简要背景，简要概述公共卫生教育新理事会（CEPH）对培养健康教育专家的独立学士学位公共卫生项目的认证过程，并描述两个学术项目在审查其课程以涵盖新批准的CEPH要求方面的经验。阿拉巴马大学和北卡罗来纳大学威尔明顿分校进行了课程映射练习，确定其项目中的哪些课程引入、强化和/或涵盖了CEPH确定的每个关键组成部分要素。描述了映射过程，并为考虑根据新采用的CEPH标准进行认证的其他项目提供了建议。
