tailieunhanh - báo cáo sinh học:" Central America Field Epidemiology Training Program (CA FETP): a pathway to sustainable public health capacity development"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học quốc tế đề tài : Central America Field Epidemiology Training Program (CA FETP): a pathway to sustainable public health capacity development | Human Resources for Health BioMed Central Review Open Access Central America Field Epidemiology Training Program CA FETP a pathway to sustainable public health capacity development Augusto Lopez and Victor M Cáceres Address Division of Global Public Health Capacity Development Coordinating Office for Global Health Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 1600 Clifton Road MS E-93 Atlanta GA 30333 USA Email Augusto López - alopez@ Victor M Cáceres - vac5@ Corresponding author Published 16 December 2008 Received 25 January 2008 Accepted 16 December 2008 Human Resources for Health 2008 6 27 doi l478-449l-6-27 This article is available from http content 6 l 27 2008 López and Cáceres licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract The Central America Field Epidemiology Training Program CA FETP is a public health capacitybuilding training programme aimed at developing high-caliber field epidemiologists at various levels of the public health system. It began in 2000 as part of the effort to rebuild public health infrastructure in six Central American and Caribbean countries following the devastation of Hurricanes Mitch and Georges in late 1998. Since then the CA FETP has evolved from one regional training programme managed by CDC to several national FETPs with each country assuming ownership of its domestic programme. The curriculum is competency-based and is divided into a three-tiered training pyramid that corresponds to the needs at the local district and central levels of the health system. Trainees at each tier spend about 20 of their time in the classroom and 80 in the field implementing what they have learned while being mentored by graduates of the .