Who Will Keep the Public Healthy?: Educating Public Health Professionals for the 21st CenturyBioterrorism, 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. But are the programs they rely on provide the high caliber professional training they require? |
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1 Introduction | 27 |
2 History and Current Status of Public Health Education in the United States | 41 |
3 The Future of Public Health Education | 61 |
4 Future Role of Schools of Public Health in Educating Public Health Professionals for the 21st Century | 108 |
5 The Need for Public Health Education in Other Programs and Schools | 129 |
Their Roles in Educating Public Health Professionals | 145 |
Appendixes | 183 |
Appendix B School of Public Health Survey Instrument | 190 |
Appendix C Organizational Input | 199 |
Appendix D The Education of Public Health Professionals in the 20th Century | 222 |
Appendix E Occupational Classifications | 262 |
Appendix F A Collection of Competency Sets | 265 |
Appendix G Public Meetings | 278 |
Appendix H Committee Biographies | 283 |