Potential uses of health promotion competencies
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 t...
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Australian Health Promotion Association
2008
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| Online Access: | http://www.healthpromotion.org.au/journal/journal-downloads/article/hpja/8-hpja-2008-volume-19-number-3/50-potential-uses-of-health-promotion-competencies http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/3817 |
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| author | Shilton, T. Howat, Peter James, R. Hutchins, C. Burke, Linda |
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-38172017-01-30T10:34:15Z Potential uses of health promotion competencies Shilton, T. Howat, Peter James, R. Hutchins, C. Burke, Linda training workforce development Health promotion competencies uses 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. 2008 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/3817 http://www.healthpromotion.org.au/journal/journal-downloads/article/hpja/8-hpja-2008-volume-19-number-3/50-potential-uses-of-health-promotion-competencies Australian Health Promotion Association fulltext |
| spellingShingle | training workforce development Health promotion competencies uses Shilton, T. Howat, Peter James, R. Hutchins, C. Burke, Linda Potential uses of health promotion competencies |
| title | Potential uses of health promotion competencies |
| title_full | Potential uses of health promotion competencies |
| title_fullStr | Potential uses of health promotion competencies |
| title_full_unstemmed | Potential uses of health promotion competencies |
| title_short | Potential uses of health promotion competencies |
| title_sort | potential uses of health promotion competencies |
| topic | training workforce development Health promotion competencies uses |
| url | http://www.healthpromotion.org.au/journal/journal-downloads/article/hpja/8-hpja-2008-volume-19-number-3/50-potential-uses-of-health-promotion-competencies http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/3817 |