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Mapping the current educational provision for the Public Health workforce in Scotland

Mapping the current educational provision for the Public Health workforce in Scotland. Margaret Simons Public Health Specialist Rhiannon Walters Specialist in Public Health. The Project. Explicitly or implicitly: Public health Health improvement Health protection Health promotion.

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Mapping the current educational provision for the Public Health workforce in Scotland

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  1. Mapping the current educational provision for the Public Health workforce in Scotland

  2. Margaret Simons Public Health Specialist • Rhiannon Walters Specialist in Public Health

  3. The Project Explicitly or implicitly: • Public health • Health improvement • Health protection • Health promotion Current education provision Against the Scottish Credit & Qualifications Framework

  4. Objectives • Identify education courses • Searchable database for use by the PH workforce in Scotland • Framework for future development • Classification of modules • Gap analysis

  5. Courses for Competencies • Sector of the public health workforce • Skills and knowledge • 10 Key Areas for PH competence

  6. Where? • Scottish Higher and Further Education • Distance learning opportunities • Outwith formal education settings

  7. Level Focus Course Name Mode of delivery Costs Admission criteria Modules Assessment procedures Information Fields

  8. Acceptance criteria • Population focus • Mid career health professionals • Not social policy • Environmental sciences with a health focus • Management only in context of PH

  9. Results

  10. Classification & gap analysis • To add a broad classification of courses by Key Area, with an explanation to assist in searching. • To provide a broad analysis showing any gaps in provision of public health education across all levels of competencies in both Higher and Further Educational institutions in Scotland

  11. Key areas 1. Surveillance and assessment of the population's health and well-being 2. Promoting and protecting the population's health and well-being 4. Collaborative working for health 8. Strategic leadership for health 10. Ethically managing self, people and resources.

  12. Knows/Knows-how competencies • Required for public health specialist registration • Complementary to “shows-how” (experience)

  13. KA8 Strategic Leadership for Health 8a1 Different models of leadership and their appropriate application in different contexts 8a2 Ways in which individuals and teams learn and the benefits and disadvantages of different approaches 8a3 Up-to-date knowledge of health issues, organisational structures and changes, and funding mechanisms

  14. Method - Classification • Modules - based on title • Amount of information to classify varied • Based on wording of KH competencies • Synonyms validated by 2 researchers • 0-4 KAs per module • Summary KA by course (0 or 1 modules)

  15. Gap Analysis - Strengths Basic PH and research areas 1. Surveillance and assessment of the population's health and well-being 2. Promoting and protecting the population's health and well-being 3. Developing quality and risk management within an evaluative culture 9. Research and development

  16. Gap analysis - weaknesses Pragmatic, more recently developed 4. Collaborative working for health 8. Strategic leadership for health 10. Ethically managing self, people and resources

  17. Aberdeen University (Courses)

  18. Intro: Concepts Epidemiology /1 1. What is Epidemiology? 2. The epidemiological concept of population {KA1} 3. The concept of risk and measures of disease frequency{KA1} 4. Presentation and interpretation of epidemiological data on risk {KA1} 5. Variation in disease by time, place and person {KA1}

  19. Intro: Concepts Epidemiology /2 6. Variation: the role of error, bias, risk modification and confounding {KA1} 7. Cause & effect: the epidemiological approach {KA1} 8. Natural history, spectrum, iceberg, population patterns and screening {KA1} 9. Study design: overview {KA9} 10. Foundations for future epidemiology {KA1} {KA3} {KA9}

  20. Dundee – MSc PH (Modules) • Epidemiology and demography {KA1} • Medical statistics {KA1} • Research methods {KA3} {KA9} • Public Health {KA1} {KA2} • Computing (optional) {KA1} • Environmental health (optional) {KA2} • Applied epidemiology {KA1} • Behavioural science {KA2} • Health promotion {KA2} • Health care management {KA10} • Health economics (optional) {KA5}

  21. Robert Gordon MSc Health Improvement and Promotion • Introduction to Health Improvement and Promotion {KA2} {KA5} • Implementing Health Improvement Through Empowerment {KA5} {KA7} • Integrating Social Policy into Health Improvement and Promotion. {KA2} {KA5} {KA6} • Research Methods {KA3} {KA9} • Managing Health Improvement Programmes {KA5} • EITHER International Approaches to Health Improvement {KA5} • OR Evaluation in Practice {KA3}

  22. Uni Hertfordshire with Utrecht and The Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health • Epidemiology {KA1} • Principles of public health {KA1} {KA2} • Public health microbiology of food and drinking water {KA1} {KA2} • Risk analysis • Technical aspects of food safety {KA2} • Veterinary aspects of public health {KA1} {KA2} • Health and food safety {KA2} • Environmental health and consumer protection {KA2} • National and European perspectives • Research methods {KA3} {KA9}

  23. LSHTM MSc Clinical Trials MSc Epidemiology: Principles & Practice MSc Infectious diseases MSc Public Health (General) MSc Public Health (Environment and Health) MSc Public Health (Health Promotion) MSc PH (Health Services Management)

  24. LSHTM: PH (Health Promotion) C Basic Statistics for PH & Policy {KA1} {KA2} {KA6} C Basic Epidemiology {KA1} C Introduction to Health Economics {KA5} C Principles of Social Research. {KA9} C Health Promotion Theory {KA2} C Health Promotion Practice {KA2}

  25. LSHTM: PH (Health Promotion) 2 O Health Services {KA5} O Environment, Health & Sustainable Development. {KA2} O Health Policy, Process & Power {KA2} O Health Care Evaluation {KA3} O Economic Analysis for Management & Policy {KA5}

  26. LSHTM: PH (Health Promotion) 3 O Organisational Management {KA10} O Health Services Management {KA10} O Financial Management {KA10} O Environmental Health Policy {KA2} {KA6} O Health Impact and Decision Analysis {KA6} O Medical Anthropology in PH {KA1} {KA2} O Globalisation & Health

  27. Informal Opportunities • EPIET • RCGPs • CHEX

  28. Now and the future • Make the database interactive to explore the use that can be made of it. • Gap analysis has indicated a shortage of courses for training in the newer and pragmatic PH skills • Consideration to wider PH workforce

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