Department of Public Health, Ashkelon Academic College, Ben Tzvi 12, Ashkelon 78211, Israel.
Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, P.O. Box 653, Beer Sheva 8410501, Israel.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Sep 2;18(17):9265. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18179265.
Health services quality and sustainability rely mainly on a qualified workforce. Adequately trained public health personnel protect and promote health, avert health disparities, and allow rapid response to health emergencies. Evaluations of the healthcare workforce typically focus on physicians and nurses in curative medical venues. Few have evaluated public health workforce capacity building or sought to identify gaps between the academic training of public health employees and the needs of the healthcare organizations in which they are employed. This project report describes the conceptual framework of "Sharing European Educational Experience in Public Health for Israel (SEEEPHI): harmonization, employability, leadership, and outreach"-a multinational Erasmus+ Capacity Building in Higher Education funded project. By sharing European educational experience and knowledge, the project aims to enhance professionalism and strengthen leadership aspects of the public health workforce in Israel to meet the needs of employers and the country. The project's work packages, each jointly led by an Israeli and European institution, include field qualification analysis, mapping public health academic training programs, workforce adaptation, and building leadership capacity. In the era of global health changes, it is crucial to assess the capacity building of a well-qualified and competent workforce that enables providing good health services, reaching out to minorities, preventing health inequalities, and confronting emerging health challenges. We anticipate that the methods developed and the lessons learned within the Israeli context will be adaptable and adoptable by other countries through local and cultural adjustments.
卫生服务的质量和可持续性主要依赖于合格的劳动力。经过充分培训的公共卫生人员可以保护和促进健康，避免健康差距，并能够对卫生紧急情况做出快速反应。对医疗保健劳动力的评估通常侧重于治疗医学场所的医生和护士。很少有人评估公共卫生劳动力的能力建设，或者试图确定公共卫生员工的学术培训与他们所服务的医疗保健组织的需求之间的差距。本项目报告描述了“在以色列共享欧洲公共卫生教育经验 (SEEEPHI)：协调、就业能力、领导力和外展”的概念框架——这是一个由欧洲复兴开发银行高等教育能力建设资助的跨国项目。通过分享欧洲的教育经验和知识，该项目旨在提高以色列公共卫生劳动力的专业精神，并加强领导力，以满足雇主和国家的需求。该项目的工作包由以色列和欧洲机构共同牵头，包括实地资格分析、绘制公共卫生学术培训计划、劳动力适应和建设领导力能力。在全球卫生变化的时代，评估一支高素质和有能力的劳动力的能力建设至关重要，这可以使他们提供良好的卫生服务，接触少数民族，预防健康不平等，并应对新出现的健康挑战。我们预计，在以色列背景下制定的方法和吸取的经验教训将通过地方和文化调整，为其他国家所适应和采用。
