Publications by authors named "A Foldspang"
The main objective was to examine, how European Schools of Public Health (SPHs) responded to the COVID-19 pandemic through 2020, across the main activity domains of the SPHs. A cross-sectional survey based on an online questionnaire concerning the anti-COVID-19 activities from 1st March to 31st October 2020 of the 117 members of the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER). The questionnaire asked about 33 sub-themes within the four main themes of teaching, health communication to the public, research, and consultancy/advice.
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- * A strong public health education requires a well-rounded curriculum that integrates disciplines like sociology, epidemiology, and health promotion to build essential competencies.
- * The commentary emphasizes the need for collaboration among public health schools and departments to develop comprehensive curricula across various academic levels, offering a two-stage strategy for improvement.
Objectives: To consider the stage of implementation of main competences and EPHO skills in selected schools of public health in four European countries-France, Poland, Portugal, and the UK.
Methods: By use of visual analogue scales (VAS) ranging 1-5, the leads of three schools of public health (SPH) in each of the four countries, France, Poland, Portugal and the UK, reported the strength of intellectual and practical competences as well as skills to perform essential public health operations (EPHOs), offered by their education and training programmes.
Results: The self-reports indicated substantial coverage of the multidimensional public health discipline.