Department of Health Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Health Promot J Austr. 2022 Oct;33 Suppl 1(Suppl 1):50-56. doi: 10.1002/hpja.634. Epub 2022 Jul 19.
Public health advocacy is a fundamental part of health promotion practice. Advocacy efforts can lead to healthier public policies and positive impacts on society. Public health educators are responsible for equipping graduates with cross-cutting advocacy competencies to address current and future public health challenges.
Knowledge of the extent to which students are taught public health advocacy is limited. To determine whether advocacy teaching within public health degrees matches industry needs, knowledge of pedagogical approaches to advocacy curricula is required. This study sought to understand the extent to which advocacy is taught and assessed within Australian public health degrees.
Australian public health Bachelor's and Master's degrees were identified using the CRICOS database. Open-source online unit guides were reviewed to determine where and how advocacy was included within core and elective units (in title, unit description or learning outcomes). Degree directors and convenors of identified units were surveyed to further garner information about advocacy in the curriculum.
Of 65 identified degrees, 17 of 26 (65%) undergraduate degrees and 24 of 39 (62%) postgraduate degrees included advocacy within the core curriculum, while 6 of 26 (23%) undergraduate and 8 of 39 (21%) postgraduate offered no advocacy curriculum.
Australian and international public health competency frameworks indicate advocacy curriculum should be included in all degrees. This research suggests advocacy competencies are not ubiquitous within Australian public health curricula. The findings support the need to advance public health advocacy teaching efforts further.
公共卫生倡导是健康促进实践的重要组成部分。倡导工作可以促成更健康的公共政策，并对社会产生积极影响。公共卫生教育者有责任让毕业生具备跨领域的倡导能力，以应对当前和未来的公共卫生挑战。
对于学生接受公共卫生倡导教育的程度，我们知之甚少。为了确定公共卫生学位中的倡导教学是否符合行业需求，需要了解倡导课程的教学方法。本研究旨在了解澳大利亚公共卫生学位中倡导教学和评估的程度。
使用 CRICOS 数据库确定澳大利亚的公共卫生学士和硕士学位。审查开源在线单元指南，以确定核心和选修单元（在标题、单元描述或学习成果中）中包含倡导的位置和方式。对确定的单元的学位主任和召集人进行调查，以进一步了解课程中的倡导情况。
在确定的 65 个学位中，26 个本科中有 17 个（65%），39 个研究生中有 24 个（62%）在核心课程中包含倡导，而 26 个本科中有 6 个（23%），39 个研究生中有 8 个（21%）没有倡导课程。
澳大利亚和国际公共卫生能力框架表明，所有学位都应包含倡导课程。本研究表明，倡导能力并不是澳大利亚公共卫生课程中的普遍存在。研究结果支持进一步推进公共卫生倡导教学工作的必要性。
