Core competency for health education professionals

SAKAGAMI Keiko

doi:10.11260/kenkokyoiku.19.163

At the 18^th IUHPE World Conference and the 19^th IUHPE World Conference, the needs of domains of core competencies for health educators and health promoters were proposed and the discussion was continued among the leaders of the IUHPE and stakeholders from different countries. In June, 2008, Galway consensus conference was held at Galway, Ireland, as an international collaboration process to share values, issues and needs and identify the domains of core competencies in health education and promotion. The following is the eight domains of core competencies: 1. Catalyzing change, 2. Leadership, 3. Assessment, 4. Planning, 5. Implementation, 6. Evaluation, 7. Advocacy, 8. Partnerships. This discussion was continued at the 20th IUHPE World Conference held in Geneva, Switzerland. Four panelists from the countries that were not able to come to the Galway Consensus Conference were invited to the session, and mainly discussed with other attendees of the session about 2 focused points: 1) the needs and possibility of a consensus on domains of core competencies on health education and promotion, and 2) the implications of the development for health-promotion capacity building. This article summarized the review of the sessions related to Competency at the 20th IUHPE World Conference held in Geneva, Switzerland.

Core competency for health education professionals

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