Variations in perceptions of urban and rural health promotion competencies
Issue addressed: To identify perceptions of essential competencies by rural and urban-based health promotion practitioners. Methods: Data were collected using two rounds of a Delphi to rank competencies as either not relevant, aspecific competency relevant to some but not all health promotion practi...
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| author | Shilton, T. Lower, Anthony Howat, Peter James, Raymond |
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| description | Issue addressed: To identify perceptions of essential competencies by rural and urban-based health promotion practitioners. Methods: Data were collected using two rounds of a Delphi to rank competencies as either not relevant, aspecific competency relevant to some but not all health promotion practitioners, a desirable or essentialcompetency. The sample consisted of members of the Australian Health Promotion Association (AHPA) and the Public Health Association of Australia (PHM) Special Interest Group in health promotion. A snowballing technique was also used to increase rural representation. Results: Two rounds of the Delphi resulted in 207 duplicate responses, 148 (72%) urban and 57 (27%) rural. Rural practitioners were significantly more likely to perceive the skills required to implement health promotion strategies as essential (t=-2.4, p=O.015). Statistically significant competencies in rural areas included media skills, research/evaluation skills and use of information technology. Conclusions: There are some significant variations in the perceived essential competencies required by rural health promotion practitioners. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-335312017-01-30T13:37:37Z Variations in perceptions of urban and rural health promotion competencies Shilton, T. Lower, Anthony Howat, Peter James, Raymond urban competencies rural Health promotion Issue addressed: To identify perceptions of essential competencies by rural and urban-based health promotion practitioners. Methods: Data were collected using two rounds of a Delphi to rank competencies as either not relevant, aspecific competency relevant to some but not all health promotion practitioners, a desirable or essentialcompetency. The sample consisted of members of the Australian Health Promotion Association (AHPA) and the Public Health Association of Australia (PHM) Special Interest Group in health promotion. A snowballing technique was also used to increase rural representation. Results: Two rounds of the Delphi resulted in 207 duplicate responses, 148 (72%) urban and 57 (27%) rural. Rural practitioners were significantly more likely to perceive the skills required to implement health promotion strategies as essential (t=-2.4, p=O.015). Statistically significant competencies in rural areas included media skills, research/evaluation skills and use of information technology. Conclusions: There are some significant variations in the perceived essential competencies required by rural health promotion practitioners. 2003 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/33531 Australian Health Promotion Association restricted |
| spellingShingle | urban competencies rural Health promotion Shilton, T. Lower, Anthony Howat, Peter James, Raymond Variations in perceptions of urban and rural health promotion competencies |
| title | Variations in perceptions of urban and rural health promotion competencies |
| title_full | Variations in perceptions of urban and rural health promotion competencies |
| title_fullStr | Variations in perceptions of urban and rural health promotion competencies |
| title_full_unstemmed | Variations in perceptions of urban and rural health promotion competencies |
| title_short | Variations in perceptions of urban and rural health promotion competencies |
| title_sort | variations in perceptions of urban and rural health promotion competencies |
| topic | urban competencies rural Health promotion |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/33531 |