This paper examines the development and achievements of the Teaching Public Health Networks (TPHNs) in England; an initiative that aimed to catalyse collaborative working between the public health workforce and further and higher education, to enhance public health knowledge in the wider workforce with a view to enhancing capacity to tackle inequalities and meeting public health targets. This p...

OBJECTIVES The Teeth Tales trial aimed to establish a model for child oral health promotion for culturally diverse communities in Australia. DESIGN An exploratory trial implementing a community-based child oral health promotion intervention for Australian families from migrant backgrounds. Mixed method, longitudinal evaluation. SETTING The intervention was based in Moreland, a culturally di...

The rural California county of San Luis Obispo, serving 45,000 population, lacked money, as do most rural counties, for the employment of a health educator. However, early in 1945 the need was considered so urgent that the local Tuberculosis Association decided to include health education experience as a job requisite for its first fulltime executive secretary. Since November, 1945, a trained h...

Despite a recent focus on the mental health of students, primary and middle school mental health education in China has been hampered by a lack of resources fand inadequate professional training. This study assessed the mental health education competency of primary and middle school head teachers using the Mental Health Education Competency Questionnaire, a measure based on data from documentar...

Countries in South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) lack enough public health workforces to address their poor public health situation. Recently, there have been efforts to develop capacity building in public health in these countries by producing competent public health workforce through public health institutes and schools. Considering the wide nature of public health, the p...

The base paper by Petrakova and Sadana is a thoughtprovoking call for innovation and action in public health education. The approach used by the BRAC University James P Grant School of Public Health (BSPH) in Bangladesh addresses many of these issues. To be relevant to the needs of society, we envision our graduates to: be committed to the health needs of the global South; • be equipped to deal...

background: planning the educational programs and informing people regarding the prevention of widespread diseases like cancers is necessary. with regard to high mortality rate of gastric cancer, the present study was conducted to define the effect of education based on health belief model on knowledge, attitude and nutritional practice of homemakers. materials and methods: in this intervention...

introduction: over the past few decades, two revolutionary approaches have emerged as a new form of medical education: electronic medical education and web-based medical education. a number of well-known medical institutions, such as harvard and johns hopkins used a wide range of cyberspace capabilities to increase their competitiveness. researchers have expressed that cyberspace will change he...

extractcontinuing education is not new for us because there  is emphasis on learning and continuing education  in our culture including literature, religion, and special  traditions in different ways  .as prophet muhammad (pbuh) says: “seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave” that  it is emphasis on continuous learning and continuous. in the holy quran  the word of “alam “repeatedly stated ...

Leadership is the perception or acceptance by members of a group of their superior's ability to inspire, influence and motivate them to meet their goals and contribute to the achievement of shared objectives. This article analyzes the characteristics of bioethics and the profile of the bioethicist in relation to the comprehensive development required of health leaders. We address this relations...