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"Welcome to this textbook, Life Cycle Nutrition for Public Health Professionals. It was written as the result of interactions with other public health nutrition academicians, practitioners, and graduate students that indicated the need for such a text, developed from a public health and community-based focus rather than a clinical nutrition perspective. This text links to the expressed Public Health 3.0 strategy that supports the need for public health leaders to develop and embrace community-wide approaches to assuring conditions in which all people can be healthy. Thus, the text considers nutrition through the entire human life course as viewed through a population health lens. The text is designed for public health students who will benefit from enhanced knowledge of nutrition principles and nutrition students who will benefit from enhanced knowledge of public health principles, as well as public health nutrition practitioners. A distinguished group of authors have collaborated to develop the contents"--

Entrepreneurship is reflected in mass media and pop culture by television shows like Shark Tank and The Profit. In fact, entrepreneurship was characterized as the hype of the 1990s (De Leeuw, 1999) and entrepreneurship education has since been described as booming (Fayolle, 2013). The increase in college degree programs in entrepreneurship has been documented by a range of researchers (Jones et al., 2012; Kuratko, 2005; Wakefield, 2012). Recently, such entrepreneurship programs have begun to extend across campuses and beyond the walls of business schools. Such cross campus programs are currently to be found in curricula in the arts, the sciences, and engineering, as well as in medical schools (Nambisan, 2015).The aim of the present paper is to describe an interdepartmental entrepreneurship curriculum with extra-curricular activities developed at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois, for graduate students in public health. Before describing this entrepreneurship curriculum, the changing healthcare landscape is briefly reviewed; the conceptual links between entrepreneurship and the social determinants model of health explored, and entrepreneurship education in the health professions discussed. Shepherd and Patzelt (2015) assert that entrepreneurship scholarship has pushed health topics largely to the periphery. This paper represents an attempt to bring entrepreneurial education among public health professionals closer to the core of healthcare.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of genomics training workshops for public health professionals and professionals-in-training. Design: A pre- and post-test evaluation design with 3-month follow-up. Setting and Participants: Thirteen genomics training workshops were delivered across Texas to 377 public health professionals and professionals-in-training (66.7% were ethnic minorities). Intervention: Three-hour theory-based, face-to-face genomics training workshops focusing on family health history practice were delivered. Methods: We administered surveys prior to the workshops, immediately post-workshops, and at 3-month follow-up to examine the changes in participants' knowledge, attitudes, intention, self-efficacy, and behavior in adopting genomics into public health practice. Linear mixed modeling analyses were used to analyze the quantitative survey data. A content analysis was also conducted for qualitative survey data analysis. Results: Genomics practice significantly improved among public health professionals at 3-month follow-up ( P < .01). For all participants, knowledge, attitudes, intention, and self-efficacy scores increased significantly immediately post-workshop compared to the pre-workshop scores (all Ps < .01). Knowledge and attitudes scores at the 3-month follow-up remained significantly higher than those scores at the pre-workshop (all Ps < .01). The feedback from workshop participants was positive. Conclusion: Our genomics training workshop is an effective program that can be disseminated at a national level to establish genomic competencies among public health professionals and professionals-in-training in the United States.

"This book outlines the relationship between racism and health, while providing public health professionals with a variety of actions, strategies, and tools to understand and address the public health implications of racism, as well as inspiration to pursue health equity"--

Zusammenfassung
Hintergrund Zur Anzahl und Verteilung akademisch qualifizierter Fachkräfte
aus dem Bereich Public Health in den unteren Gesundheitsbehörden liegen bislang
wenige Daten vor. Das Ziel der vorliegenden Untersuchung war die Analyse der
Verteilung von Public-Health-Professionals im Öffentlichen Gesundheitsdienst in
Deutschland.
Methode Mittels Online-Survey wurden die Amtsleitungen der 376 deutschen
Gesundheitsämter zur Präsenz von Public-Health-Professionals und Ihrer Sicht auf
Personalbedarfe befragt. Der Begriff Public-Health-Professionals wurde
operationalisiert. Die Erhebung erfolgte ab 06/2023 mit einer Laufzeit von 14
Wochen. Die Ergebnisse wurden deskriptiv ausgewertet.
Ergebnis Die Teilnahmerate an der Befragung betrug 40,4% (n=152).
Durchschnittlich beschäftigten die teilnehmenden Gesundheitsämter 2,6 (SD 3,85,
MD 2) Public-Health-Professionals. 28,3% (n=43) der Amtsleitungen gaben an,
keine Public-Health-Professionals zu beschäftigen. Es berichteten 78,3% (n=119)
der Amtsleitungen, mehr Personal zu benötigen. Zudem äußerten 65,1% (n=99), mehr
Personal mit Studium oder Zusatzstudium im Bereich Public Health zu
benötigen.
Schlussfolgerung Fachpersonal aus dem Bereich Public Health ist noch nicht
in allen Gesundheitsämtern in Deutschland vertreten. Sowohl die Verteilung von
Public-Health-Professionals in den teilnehmenden Gesundheitsämtern, als auch die
Sicht der Amtsleitungen bezüglich des Bedarfs für diese Berufsgruppe im eigenen
Gesundheitsamt sind heterogen. In der Zusammenschau zeigt sich ein klarer Bedarf
bei der Stärkung der Zusammenarbeit zwischen der akademischen Public
Health-Profession und dem Öffentlichen Gesundheitsdienst.

Context: Public health practitioners are involved in a wide array of contexts. Local and national government public health agencies; domestic and international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs); and academic institutions are just a few examples of the settings where public health practitioners work. Acting ethically and meeting ethical commitments in a practical and transdisciplinary endeavor as complicated as public health necessitates careful consideration. Ethical practice ensures that public health institutions work properly and that individual public health practitioners maintain their integrity. There is little debate about the importance of ethics in public health professional practice and, as a result, the necessity for a corresponding professional code of ethics. Policy Options: Only an US-American code of public health ethics has been created so far. Since ethical considerations in public health are heavily dependent in contexts, the aim of this document is to initiate a discussion surrounding the establishment of a Code of Ethics for Public Health Professionals in Europe. Recommendations: Stimulate the discussion on a European code of public health ethics. Make a clear distinction between public health ethics and medical ethics. Recognize public health as a profession and not just a medical specialty. Recognize the need for a common code of ethics among public health professionals in Europe. Use Kotter's Model based on the Theory of Change as a roadmap when creating the European public health code of ethics. Treat the European code of ethics as a "living document". Encourage further research on a European code of ethics. Acknowledgements: We thank Professor James C. Thomas for his guidance and support in developing this paper, as well as Professor Kasia Czabanowska for her help and for providing the opportunity to have explore this special project. We also thank all the interviewees for their time and contributions. Contributions: All authors contributed equally to this work. Conflict of interest: ...

In 1995, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the Public Health Service (PHS) recommended that special attention be given to the information needs of unaffiliated public health professionals. In response, the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) Greater Midwest Region initiated a collaborative outreach program for public health professionals working in rural east and central Iowa. Five public health agencies were provided equipment, training, and support for accessing the Internet. Key factors in the success of this project were: (1) the role of collaborating agencies in the implementation and ongoing success of information access outreach projects; (2) knowledge of the socio-cultural factors that influence the information-seeking habits of project participants (public health professionals); and (3) management of changing or varying technological infrastructures. Working with their funding, personnel from federal, state, and local governments enhanced the information-seeking skills of public health professionals in rural eastern and central Iowa communities.

In response to the decline in child vaccination coverage and the subsequent occurrence of large vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks, in 2017 Italy introduced a new law that made ten vaccines mandatory for children aged 0–16 years. The policy change initiated an ongoing debate among the general public, as well as in the political arena and the scientific community, over this major public health concern. Hence, we conducted a survey aimed at assessing Italian public health professionals' attitudes towards and opinions on mandatory vaccination. A validated online questionnaire was administered to 1350 members of the Italian Society of Hygiene, Preventive Medicine and Public Health. Among the 1044 responders (response rate 77%), a large majority were in favour of the Italian mandatory vaccination law (91%) and against its repeal (74%). Nevertheless, according to our sample, maintaining a high level of vaccination coverage without the need to mandate would be preferable, and thus efforts to promote vaccine confidence and proactive vaccine uptake are still needed.

During the 1990s, Brazil saw the creation of a Unified Health System (SUS), based on the principals of universal and free access, fully integrated care, and decentralisation and participation. The reforms leading to SUS run counter to the international macroeconomic prescription of the time, which emphasised a reduction of the state's role in social policy, but are seen by many experts in the field as a reform success story. What are the origins of this reform? This article argues that the financial crises of the social security and the interaction between the sector's principal actors (military regime, techno-bureaucracy, private sector and sanitário movement made up of highly trained public sector health professionals) produced policies capable of introducing important changes of a reformist nature in the early 1980s. This interpretation contrasts to the most recurrent one in the national literature on the Brazilian health sector, which points to the 1988 Constitution as a sectoral turning point. (IDS Bull/GIGA)

In response to a nationwide rise in obesity, several states have passed legislation to improve school health environments. Among these was Arkansas's Act 1220 of 2003, the most comprehensive school-based childhood obesity legislation at that time.

The author argues that the Healthy Communities movement provides public health professionals with an opportunity to become not just community leaders but also agents of change in a broad political sense. Extending the work of Kohlberg and other developmental psychologists, the author describes five levels of civil discourse. Professionals who practice the inclusive, consensus-oriented level of discourse, which is consistent with the philosophy of Healthy Communities, can help reinvigorate civil society and democracy as a part of making their communities healthier.