Goodman Julien D, Muckelbauer Rebecca, Müller-Nordhorn Jacqueline, Cavallo Franco, Kalediene Ramune, Kuiper Tom, Otok Robert
1 Agency for Public Health Education Accreditation (APHEA), Avenue de l'Armée, Legerlaan, 10, 1040 Brussels, Belgium
2 Berlin School of Public Health, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin.
Eur J Public Health. 2015 Dec;25(6):1112-6. doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckv054. Epub 2015 Mar 30.
In 2011 the Agency for Public Health Education Accreditation (APHEA) was initially launched focusing on Master level (second cycle) education.
Between 2012 and 2013 the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region, APHEA and partner schools conducted a study on the compliance of Master level programmes of public health to the accreditation criteria. A web-based survey of second cycle programmes of public health across 29 countries was conducted using the APHEA criteria. The 29 countries were categorized into four regions: Northern, Southern, Central and Eastern and Western. We applied a Chi square test to identify regional differences with regard to the compliance of the programmes to the criteria.
Data from 51 out of 71 schools contacted were analyzed. The compliance to the two themes of student and faculty exchange and quality management were lowest for programmes of public health throughout the EHEA. There were significant differences in the compliance between the regions with higher compliance in the Northern European region.
Student and faculty exchange and quality management are essential for schools and programmes of public health to improve the quality of their education through expanding international knowledge and the pertinence of skills taught within European and national contexts. The results show that there are intrinsic issues with exchange and quality management as well as the role of national accreditation agencies in defining public health education for the future workforce.
2011年，公共卫生教育认证机构（APHEA）最初成立，专注于硕士层次（第二阶段）教育。
2012年至2013年期间，欧洲区域公共卫生学校协会、APHEA及合作学校对公共卫生硕士层次项目符合认证标准的情况进行了一项研究。使用APHEA标准对29个国家的公共卫生第二阶段项目开展了基于网络的调查。这29个国家被分为四个区域：北部、南部、中部以及东部和西部。我们应用卡方检验来确定各区域在项目符合标准方面的差异。
对所联系的71所学校中51所学校的数据进行了分析。整个欧洲高等教育区（EHEA）公共卫生项目在学生和教师交流以及质量管理这两个主题方面的符合度最低。各区域之间在符合度上存在显著差异，北欧区域的符合度更高。
学生和教师交流以及质量管理对于公共卫生学校和项目通过在欧洲及国家背景下拓展国际知识和所教授技能的相关性来提高其教育质量至关重要。结果表明，交流和质量管理以及国家认证机构在为未来劳动力界定公共卫生教育方面的作用存在内在问题。
