Baker Philip R A, Dingle Kaeleen, Dunne Michael P
1 Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
2 Hue University, Hue, Vietnam.
Asia Pac J Public Health. 2018 Nov 16:1010539518810555. doi: 10.1177/1010539518810555.
The Asia-Pacific region has rapidly changing health needs. This reshaping of health priorities is directly affecting current and future public health education. This brief review focuses on foundational public health skills including epidemiology, biostatistics, and health informatics. Epidemiological skills, in particular, are essential for policymakers and practitioners to identify the emergence of problems and to inform priority setting of public health efforts. Training needs to move beyond didactic, passive learning methods in class settings to approaches that engage and challenge students and academics in active, flexible learning and realistic problem-solving. We provide an overview of future trends in public health training in the Asia-Pacific region and illustrate the diversity of online training resources globally that can enrich staff and student skills and complement our active, class-based teaching.
亚太地区的卫生需求正在迅速变化。这种卫生重点的重塑正直接影响着当前和未来的公共卫生教育。本简要综述聚焦于基础公共卫生技能，包括流行病学、生物统计学和卫生信息学。尤其是流行病学技能，对于政策制定者和从业者识别问题的出现以及为公共卫生工作的重点设定提供依据至关重要。培训需要超越课堂上的说教式、被动学习方法，转向能够让学生和学者积极参与、灵活学习并解决实际问题的主动学习方法。我们概述了亚太地区公共卫生培训的未来趋势，并举例说明了全球在线培训资源的多样性，这些资源可以提升工作人员和学生的技能，并补充我们基于课堂的主动教学。
