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Post-graduate medical education in public health: the case of Italy and a call for action
Anna OdoneGaetano Pierpaolo PriviteraCarlo SignorelliD'errico MmQuarto MFantini MpDonato FContu PMarranzano MBianco AStaniscia TGabutti GBonanni PGasparini RFabiani LPicerno ICesana GmPontello MmSignorelli CBorella PIlaria La TorreAttena FBaldo VCasuccio APelissero GStracci FPrivitera GpDamiani GVillari PFranco Enrique De PanfilisCapunzo MMura IMessina GSiliquini RParpinel MRomano G.subject
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Summary Public health technical expertise is of crucial importance to inform decision makers’ action in the field of health and its broader determinants. Improving education and training of public health professionals for both practice and research is the starting point to strengthen the role of public health so that current health challenges can be efficiently tackled. At the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER) Deans’ & Directors’ 2017 Annual Retreat, we presented the structure and management of public health training system in Italy, and we reported recent data on Italian public health specialists’ educational experience, employment opportunities and job satisfaction. Public health training in Italy is implemented in the context of the post-graduate medical education residency programme in Hygiene and Preventive Medicine, delivered by 34 University-based Schools of Public Health. We report relatively high employment rates across the county and wide spectrum of career opportunities for young public health specialists. However, job security is low and training expectations only partially met. We call upon other Schools of Public Health to scale up the survey within the broad ASPHER community in a shared and coordinated action of systematically collecting useful data that can inform the development of public health education and training models, their implementation and fruitful interaction with population health, health systems and services.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-07-11 |