The health education strategy of the Regional Office for Europe, World Health Organization

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Medical EducationVolume 24, Issue 3 p. 209-209 Free Access The health education strategy of the Regional Office for Europe, World Health Organization First published: May 1990 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2923.1990.tb00001.xAboutSectionsPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat The Copenhagen Office of the World Health Organization held an important International Consultation in Venice on 4–8 December 1989, on the educational policy concerned in training of the health professions. The Ministry of Health of Italy assisted in holding the Consultation, and the Smith Kline Foundation provided administrative support. The Association for Medical Education in Europe was well represented, as was the World Federation for Medical Education. It is accepted that the Federation has denied the medical educational parameter (through the Edinburgh Declaration), while the WHO European Office has defined the health care policy for Europe, greatly furthered by the specification of the 38 targets (WHO 1985). The Consultation decided: 1 Educational objectives are to be set at the level of nations and individual institutions, not by any international prescriptions. 2 The main need in educational content is for a shift from narrow concentration on disease orientation to a health-oriented education. 3 Regarding educational process, much interest attaches to the problem-solving approach and other methods which foster the self-learning approach and multi-professional cooperation. 4 Among education strategies, the emphasis was on teacher training and on renewed concern with optimal teaching of the health sciences. 5 Continuing medical education, now largely informal and even casual, is coming to be viewed as the main phase in medical education, and its significance is both as a change agent and as a means for maintaining professional competence. The Report of the Consultation (WHO 1990) will be a policy document of the greatest importance to medical schools, universities and ministries. The chairmen were Professor Andrzej Wojtczak of Poland and Dr S. Lombardini of Italy and Professor Albert Oriol i Bosch of Spain was the Rapporteur, with Dr P.O. Petersson the senior WHO participant representing Dr J.E. Asvall, the Regional Director. The Report will come at a time when those responsible in member states become increasingly alert to the need for professional education to be consonant with the country's health care needs. References World Health Organization (1985) Targets for Health for All. European Health for All Series. World Health Organization, Copenhagen. World Health Organization (1990) International Consultation on Health Manpower Education for Health for All. EUR/ICP/HMD 157. World Health Organization, Copenhagen. Volume24, Issue3May 1990Pages 209-209 ReferencesRelatedInformation