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Who will keep the public healthy? : educating public health professionals for the 21st century / Kristine Gebbie, Linda Rosenstock, and Lyla M. Hernandez, editors.

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Bioterrorism, drug-resistant disease, transmission of disease by global travel ... there's no shortage of challenges facing America's public health officials. Men and women preparing to enter the field require state-of-the-art training to meet these increasing threats to the public health....

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Corporate Author: Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Educating Public Health Professionals for the 21st Century
Other Authors: Gebbie, Kristine M., Rosenstock, Linda, Hernandez, Lyla M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2003.
Series:Online access: NCBI NCBI Bookshelf.
Subjects:
Public health > Study and teaching.
Schools of public health.
Table of Contents:
  • Abstract
  • Executive summary
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. History and current status of public health education in the United States
  • 3. future of public health education
  • 4. Future role of schools of public health in educating public health professionals for the 21st century
  • 5. need for public health education in other programs and schools
  • 6. Public health agencies: their role in educating public health professionals
  • 7. Conclusion
  • References
  • Appendix A: School of public health catalogue abstraction
  • Appendix B: School of public health survey instrument
  • Appendix C: Organizational input
  • Appendix D: Education of public health professionals in the 20th century
  • Appendix E: Occupational classifications
  • Appendix F: A collection of competency sets
  • Appendix G: Public meetings
  • Appendix H: Committee biographies.

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