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Future Directions for Public Health Education Reforms in India

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Public Health, September 2014
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Title
Future Directions for Public Health Education Reforms in India
Published in
Frontiers in Public Health, September 2014
DOI 10.3389/fpubh.2014.00068
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Sanjay P. Zodpey, Himanshu Negandhi, Rajiv Yeravdekar

Abstract

Health systems globally are experiencing a shortage of competent public health professionals. Public health education across developing countries is stretched by capacity generation and maintaining an adequate 'standard' and 'quality' of their graduate product. We analyzed the Indian public health education scenario using the institutional and instructional reforms framework advanced by the Lancet Commission report on Education of Health Professionals. The emergence of a new century necessitates a re-visit on the institutional and instructional challenges surrounding public health education. Currently, there is neither an accreditation council nor a formal structure or system of collaboration between academic stakeholders. Health systems have little say in health professional training with limited dialogue between health systems and public health education institutions. Despite a recognized shortfall of public health professionals, there are limited job opportunities for public health graduates within the health system and absence of a structured career pathway for them. Public health institutions need to evolve strategies to prevent faculty attrition. A structured development program in teaching-learning methods and pedagogy is the need of the hour.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 2%
Unknown 42 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 9 21%
Researcher 6 14%
Other 4 9%
Professor 2 5%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 5%
Other 4 9%
Unknown 16 37%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 13 30%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 16%
Social Sciences 2 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 2%
Psychology 1 2%
Other 3 7%
Unknown 16 37%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 November 2019.
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#6,674,205
of 23,577,761 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Public Health
#2,312
of 11,267 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#69,077
of 253,730 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Public Health
#26
of 74 outputs
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