Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Hebrew University-Hadassah, Jerusalem, Israel.
School of Public Health, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
Front Public Health. 2024 Aug 26;12:1416497. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1416497. eCollection 2024.
Competency frameworks are essential for analyzing capabilities of Schools of Public Health to adequately prepare public health (PH) professionals to address contemporary challenges. This study maps the competency profiles of PH training programs in Israel using a novel curriculum mapping tool.
This study assessed all five Israeli Health Education Institutions (HEIs) offering MPH or Bachelors in Public Health (BPH) degrees across 57 competencies in six domains to determine the extent to which competencies were addressed in the curriculum. The competencies list was based on the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER) List of Core Competences for the Public Health Professional, adapted for Israeli HEIs.
The core curricula in the four MPH programs addressed 45-84% of all competencies. The BPH program addressed 79% of competencies. In MPH programs, the core curricula addressed most or all competencies in the Methods and the Socioeconomic Determinants of Health domains. Competencies in the domains of Environmental Determinants of Health, Health Policy, Economics & Organization, and Health Promotion and Prevention were less comprehensively addressed in most core curricula. Students' opportunities to broaden their exposure to competencies outside the core curricula were context dependent.
The curriculum competencies mapping tool that was developed served to assess both strengths and shortcomings in PH education in Israel. The findings demonstrate a highly variable array of PH curriculum models in Israeli HEIs, as well as overall shortcomings in the Environmental, Health Policy Economics and Organization, and Health Promotion and Prevention domains. This analysis has already led to reassessment of the curriculum, and will continue to guide the next steps to increase the harmonization of PH training curricula and to better meet PH challenges in Israel.
能力框架对于分析公共卫生学院的能力至关重要，这些能力可以使公共卫生（PH）专业人员充分准备好应对当代挑战。本研究使用新的课程映射工具来绘制以色列 PH 培训计划的能力概况。
本研究评估了提供 MPH 或公共卫生学士（BPH）学位的五所以色列健康教育机构（HEIs）在六个领域的 57 项能力中的所有五项，以确定课程中涵盖的能力范围。该能力清单基于欧洲地区公共卫生学院协会（ASPHER）公共卫生专业人员核心能力清单，并针对以色列 HEIs 进行了调整。
四个 MPH 课程的核心课程涵盖了所有能力的 45-84%。BPH 课程涵盖了 79%的能力。在 MPH 课程中，核心课程涵盖了方法和健康的社会经济决定因素领域的大部分或所有能力。在大多数核心课程中，环境健康决定因素、健康政策、经济学与组织以及健康促进与预防领域的能力涵盖得不够全面。学生扩大对核心课程以外能力的接触机会取决于背景。
开发的课程能力映射工具用于评估以色列 PH 教育的优势和劣势。研究结果表明，以色列 HEIs 中存在高度多样化的 PH 课程模式，以及环境、健康政策经济学与组织以及健康促进与预防领域的总体不足。这种分析已经导致了课程的重新评估，并将继续指导下一步行动，以增加 PH 培训课程的协调一致，并更好地应对以色列的 PH 挑战。
