Developing the public health workforce: training and recognizing specialists in public health from backgrounds other than medicine: experience in the UK.

Conclusion: The transition from a predominantly medical to a multidisciplinary public health specialist workforce over a relatively short timescale is unprecedented globally and was the product of a sustained period of grass roots activism aligned with national policy innovation. the UK experience might provide a model for other countries seeking to develop public health specialist workforce capacity in line with the Essential Public Health Operations. PMID: 29942671 [PubMed]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29942671?dopt=Abstract

Source: Public Health Reviews - June 28, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Public Health Rev Source Type: research

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