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• W2616403462 abstract "Introduction and background The burden of chronic diseases continues to increase in Africa, and numbers of new skilled health personnel are not keeping pace. Training and increasing the number of health-care personnel, therefore, remains a priority in African countries. In an attempt to meet the human resource challenges, developed countries (e.g. the United States of America) have offered a number of scholarships to help increase the number of personnel; and for a long time the training of public health professionals in the African continent depended on such scholarships. These scholarships required that the students leave their home countries and study public health in foreign settings, where the systems are based on foreign health policies and under different economic situations. Moreover, the acceptance of scholarships abroad provided its own challenges, like settling in a foreign country (uprooting or disrupting families) and loss of scholarship recipients to permanent resettlement abroad (brain drain). Despite these challenges, such scholarships provided a significant contribution to the preparation of the public health workforce in Africa, and they continue to offer valuable services. Ina way, overseas training was directly instrumental in starting the training programme at the National School of Public Health (NSPH), because the first four founding academics of the school all received their public health training in the USA, three of them having been recipients of overseas scholarships. Additionally, a foundation funded the school to initiate a regional fellowship programme. Over and above fellows' fees, this funding played a role in advancing the growth and quality of the academic programmes of the school. The increase in demand for health professionals worldwide has also placed pressure on institutions of higher learning that are engaged in the training of health professionals. The White paper for the transformation of the health system in South Africa (1) highlighted the need to not only increase the number of health professionals, but also to reorient their training so that there is a significant shift and expansion of focus from curative measures to disease prevention and health promotion. The AIDS pandemic has also intensified the need for health promotion strategies and qualified health personnel. Meaningful public health training programmes need to accommodate individuals who currently work full-time in health and welfare services. This would allow health personnel to implement new skills (2) in their current positions. Implementing this in Africa has been difficult. Clearly Africa needs public health professionals with the knowledge and skills to deal with myriad public health challenges. One solution is distance learning. For example, in Who will keep the public healthy? distance education is advocated as a method of enabling workers to continue in their work responsibilities by completing self-paced coursework ... this approach reduces the burden overworked and understaffed agencies feel as their staff members participate in educational programs. (3) In response, the then Medical University of Southern Africa (MEDUNSA) established a Faculty of Public Health, which was called the National School of Public Health. The school set out to develop public health education programmes that would accommodate health-care workers in South Africa who must study while still employed, as well as respond to public health human resource needs in South Africa and the sub-Saharan region. The school accepted the first cohort of master of public health (MPH) students in June 1998. Since then the NSPH has produced the highest number of MPH graduates compared to other MPH programmes in South Africa (Table 1). It is also the only programme in the country that offers the doctor of public health (DrPH) degree. Despite these apparent successes (due largely to distance learning), studies have not been conducted to assess the contribution of this programme to the training of the public health workforce in Africa. …" @default.
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• W2616403462 title "Training of Public Health Workforce at the National School of Public Health: Meeting Africa's needs/Formation Du Personnel Au Service De la Sante Des Populations Par l'Ecole Nationale De Sante Publique d'Afrique Du Sud: Une Reponse Aux Besoins De l'Afrique/Formacion De Los Trabajadores De Salud Publica En la Escuela Nacional De Salud Publica: Atender Las Necesidades De Africa" @default.
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