Potential uses of health promotion competencies

Abstract

Projects in Australia and internationally over the past two decades have sought to define and clarify competencies required to work in health promotion. It is now apparent that such competencies are very useful to health promotion practice. However, to date little attempt has been made to describe those uses. More than 200 health promotion practitioners throughout Australia were engaged in workshops to explore and define potential uses of health promotion competencies. The suggestions from these 10 workshops are summarised in eight categories of uses. Agreed health promotion competencies have potential to impact on recruitment, training, employment policy and health promotion practice.

O que vem se falando por aí em competências no ensino da promoção da saúde na formação do enfermeiro?

“…Na descrição metodológica, entre as oito publicações analisadas, seis apresentam caráter descritivo [12][13][14][16][17][18] e há um estudo randomizado 15 e um estudo de reflexão 19 .…”

“…O cenário de desenvolvimento de competências em promoção da saúde são os cursos de graduação 14,16,19 . A graduação é considerada um lócus privilegiado para a formação para a promoção da saúde baseada em competências 27 .…”

“…Vale destacar que se sugere priorizar o trabalho com as competências nos cursos de graduação devido ao maior tempo de duração, quando comparado aos cursos de pós-graduação, e a abordagem da promoção da saúde nos anos finais do curso é indicada como mais proveitosa do que no início, pela maturidade (clínica e política) dos estudantes 16 .…”

Creating a sustainable health promotion workforce in Australia: a health promoting approach to professionalisation

“…While other international regulation projects have been required to establish 'domains of practice' or competencies, 2,3 this has already been achieved in Australia with the development of AHPA Core Competencies for Health Promotion. 8 This project was able to move beyond defining health promotion competencies and consider questions associated with models of regulation.…”

Evaluation of health promotion training for the Western Australian Aboriginal maternal and child health sector

“…3,4 However, MCH workers often lack time and confidence to provide preventive health support since health promotion is a small part of, or absent from, their professional training. [5][6][7][8] Health promotion training has been identified as a critical component of building health promotion capacity [9][10][11][12][13][14] and integral to the reorientation of health services towards the principles and practice of health promotion. 3,4 The collaborative, participatory features of capacity building echo those valued within Aboriginal communities.…”