A role for workforce competencies in evidence-based health promotion education
Promot. educ
; 14(1): 28-34, 2007. ilus, tab
Artigo
em Inglês
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Biblioteca responsável:
BR67.1
Localização: BR67.1
ABSTRACT
Education programs should be based on research about the knowledge and skills required for practice, rather than on intuition or tradition, but there is limited published curriculum research on health promotion education. This paper describes a case study of how workforce competencies have been used to assist evidence-based health promotion education in the areas of curriculum design, selection of assessment tasks and continuous quality assurance processes in an undergraduate program at an Australian university. A curriculum-competency mapping process successfully identified gaps and areas of overlap in an existing program. Previously published health promotion workforce competencies were effectively used in the process of selecting assessment items, providing clear guidelines for curriculum revision and a useful method to objectively assess competency content in an evidence informed framework. These health promotion workforce competencies constituted an additional tool to assess course quality. We recommend other tertiary institutions consider curriculum-competency mapping and curriculum based assessment selection as quality and evidence based curriculum review strategies. (AU)
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Coleções:
Bases de dados temática
Contexto em Saúde:
Agenda de Saúde Sustentável para as Américas
Problema de saúde:
Objetivo 7: Evidência e conhecimento em matéria de saúde
Base de dados:
CidSaúde - Cidades saudáveis
Assunto principal:
Competência Profissional
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Papel (figurativo)
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Educação em Saúde
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Medicina Baseada em Evidências
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Promoção da Saúde
Tipo de estudo:
Guia de prática clínica
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Estudo prognóstico
País/Região como assunto:
Oceania
Idioma:
Inglês
Revista:
Promot. educ
Ano de publicação:
2007
Tipo de documento:
Artigo