tailieunhanh - Master’s Degree in Public Health Core Competency Model

Health care workers should explain the importance of directly observed treatment as a standard of care for all patients. The health worker must watch the patient swallow all the drugs. This will ensure that the patient takes the correct drugs regularly for the required time. If injections are needed, they will be given properly. For example, if the patient does not take all of the drugs, he or she will continue to spread TB to others, and his or her TB will not be cured. It is dangerous to stop or interrupt treatment, because then. | ASPH Education Committee Master s Degree in Public Health Core Competency Model Version August 2006 ASSOCIATION OF J n SCHOOLS OF PUBLIC HEALTH September 30 2006 Dear Colleague The Association of Schools of Public Health ASPH is pleased to present the ASPH master s degree in public health MPH core competencies Version to all stakeholders in graduate public health education. These competencies represent a national effort undertaken between August 2004 and August 2006 by 332 members of the academic and practice communities under the jurisdiction of the ASPH Education Committee. In releasing these competencies ASPH aims to stimulate a national discussion on the competencies needed by MPH graduates in light of the new challenges of 21st century public health practice. Included are 119 competencies for the five core areas of public health Biostatistics Environmental Health Sciences Epidemiology Health Policy and Management and Social and Behavioral Sciences and seven cross-cutting areas Communication Diversity and Culture Leadership Professionalism and Ethics Program Planning and Assessment Public Health Biology and Systems Thinking . This set is intended as a resource and guide for those interested in improving the quality and accountability of graduate public health education and training. In this effort ASPH is not prescribing the method nor the processes for student achievement of the competencies nor techniques for faculty to implement the competencies recognizing that implementation of the competencies may vary as a function of each school s mission and goals. ASPH believes that the competency set will also be useful to colleagues at graduate public health programs employers practice and agency partners the Council on Education for Public Health CEPH and the National Board of Public Health Examiners NBPHE . We are extremely grateful to the many leaders who participated in the competency development process and especially Dr. Judith Calhoun the project s .