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Review
. 2014 Jul 21:2:88.
doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2014.00088. eCollection 2014.

Public health education in South Asia: a basis for structuring a master degree course

Rajendra Karkee  1
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Public health education in South Asia: a basis for structuring a master degree course

Rajendra Karkee. Front Public Health. .

Abstract

Countries in South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) lack enough public health workforces to address their poor public health situation. Recently, there have been efforts to develop capacity building in public health in these countries by producing competent public health workforce through public health institutes and schools. Considering the wide nature of public health, the public health education and curricula should be linked with skills, knowledge, and competencies needed for public health practice and professionalism. The 3 domains of public health practice and the 10 essential public health services provide an operational framework to explore this link between public health practice and public health education. This framework incorporates five core areas of public health education. A master degree course in public health can be structured by incorporating these core areas as basic and reinforcing one of these areas as an elective followed by a dissertation work.

Keywords: South Asia; postgraduate course; public health education; public health practice; public health workforce.

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The 3 domains and 10 activities of public health practice. Modified from Ref. (15).
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