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Multidisciplinary Public Health: Understanding the Development of the Modern Workforce
Jenny Wright
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Description for Multidisciplinary Public Health: Understanding the Development of the Modern Workforce
Paperback. A lively and comprehensive review of policy change in England, making useful comparisons with the rest of the UK. It includes the voices of key protagonists in the development of the public health workforce. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; MBNS; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. .
Including the voices of key protagonists in the development of the public health workforce, this book is an important addition to the history of public health in England. It charts events leading to the unique achievement, from 2003, of specialist status, equivalent to public health medical consultants, for those from non-medical backgrounds. Setting these changes in context it discusses implications for practitioners and the wider UK public health workforce. A lively and comprehensive review of policy change, Multidisciplinary public health: Understanding the development of the modern workforce concludes with a reflection on the new public health system under way ... Read more
Including the voices of key protagonists in the development of the public health workforce, this book is an important addition to the history of public health in England. It charts events leading to the unique achievement, from 2003, of specialist status, equivalent to public health medical consultants, for those from non-medical backgrounds. Setting these changes in context it discusses implications for practitioners and the wider UK public health workforce. A lively and comprehensive review of policy change, Multidisciplinary public health: Understanding the development of the modern workforce concludes with a reflection on the new public health system under way ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
352g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447300328
SKU
V9781447300328
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Ref
99-50
About Jenny Wright
Jenny Wright contributed to UK multidisciplinary public health from 2000, developing national competency and assessment frameworks and promoting public health careers. Now retired, she is completing a PhD on public health women doctors in England. Fiona Sim OBE is current chair of the Royal Society for Public Health, Honorary Senior Lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine ... Read more
Reviews for Multidisciplinary Public Health: Understanding the Development of the Modern Workforce
Recent developments in public health are poorly understood by the public. Multidisciplinary public health provides a readable history, based on the authors' own involvement, of one key change in modern public health - the incorporation of non-medical people into the mainstream public health workforce. Virginia Berridge, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Public health in England has ... Read more