Health Training Courses Research Articles

A method for linking health and social training courses of medium length to research.

By means of a process of pragmatic and philosophical investigation set out in three stages a method has been successively developed and set to work for linking health and social training courses of medium length to research. This method consists of strategies and prescriptive models. In the first stage the training is organised and the teachers' frames of references are developed. During the second stage an intensified identification of the major subjects and professional competences is started, by means of the feedback process inherent in the strategy. On this follows the further identification of relevant fields of research--elucidated by the prescriptive models--by means of a research process. From the third stage, which comprises a solid research and developmental programme, consisting of three principal phases, the prescriptive models are directive. In the last phase these models provide the criteria for the analysis of the follow-up and results of the research link within training courses.

SAFETY AND HEALTH ORGANISATIONS, INFORMATION SOURCES AND TRAINING COURSES

SAFETY AND HEALTH ORGANISATIONS, INFORMATION SOURCES AND TRAINING COURSES

Evaluating Short Health Training Courses through Content Analysis

Evaluating Short Health Training Courses through Content Analysis

World Health Organization

During September 1953 sessions of four regional committees of the World Health Organization were held. From September 7 to 10, the third session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe met in Copenhagen. Among the major recommendations of the committee, which was attended by delegates from 22 countries, was that Geneva should become the permanent site of the regional office for Europe. For 1955 aid to health projects, training courses, and other activities in European countries, the committee recommended a budget of approximately $l,600,000. Part of this amount was to come from the regular budget of WHO, and the rest from United Nations technical assistance funds, UNICEF, and other agencies having joint program arrangements with WHO. The work already carried out through the regional office for Europe received general approval, minor revisions in the plans for 1954 were made, and a program for 1955 was discussed and approved. Particular attention in the plans for Europe was given to educational and training activities; these included conferences on various subjects, such as modern trends in tuberculosis control, and special studies of interest to many countries on such subjects as water standards, teaching methods for nurses, and sanitary engineering terminology in English and French. An extensive fellowship program was also approved. Despite the emphasis on education and training in the program for 1955, almost a fifth of the total budget for this year was to be devoted to the control of certain communicable diseases, such as tuberculosis (in Austria, Finland and Turkey), diphtheria and whooping cough (in Yugoslavia), and trachoma (in Tunisia and Morocco).