Building competency to deal with environmental health challenges: experiences and a proposal DOI Creative Commons
Giovanni Leonardi, Ariana Zeka, Matthew Ashworth

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Frontiers in Public Health, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 12

Published: Nov. 18, 2024

The global landscape of professional training in environmental health, encompassing ecological public health or lacks consistent implementation for programs practitioners, clinical professionals, and individuals across various disciplines, as well standardized curricula undergraduates. This gap is related to the overall lack capacity addressing population impacts triple challenge pollution, biodiversity loss, climate change, impeding worldwide transition development sustainability. paper reviews existing approaches their potential address challenges within necessarily tight timescale. Spreading best practice appears feasible even without substantial additional resources, through reorientation current practices via comprehensive multi-disciplinary programs. By adopting international focus education can shift from future decision-makers enhancing competencies professionals institutions.

Language: Английский

Development and validation of a Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices (KAP) questionnaire for healthcare professionals on environmental sustainability in healthcare in Southern Africa DOI Creative Commons
Helga Lister, Karien Mostert, Tanita Botha

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F1000Research, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 13, P. 1308 - 1308

Published: March 26, 2025

Background The triple planetary crisis of climate change, environmental pollution, and biodiversity loss is increasingly driving poor health outcomes worldwide. Healthcare systems services are often not environmentally sustainable compound the problem, while healthcare professionals also recognised as key leaders in advancing healthcare. To adopt this leadership position, professionals’ knowledge, attitudes, practices regarding sustainability must be established. This article reports development validation a new instrument for purpose that corresponds to specificities Southern African context. Methods Questionnaire followed seven-stage process. Information was obtained from 2021 study titled ‘South Professionals’ Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices Regarding Environmental Sustainability Healthcare: A Mixed-Methods Study’ develop instrument. sourced literature generate first questionnaire with 29 items. following stages included two rounds expert input, separated by pilot target population receive feedback instrument’s structure, relevance, length. Content validity determined through statistical analysis. Results Feedback received nine experts stage 13 pilot-study participants four incorporated improve questionnaire. In six, rated seven experts. content index calculated at different stages, after which indices were compared. Following final edit, has 24 closing analysis scale average (S-CVI/Ave) 0,922; indicates excellent validity. Conclusion assesses attitudes Africa been developed validated. can now used further studies Africa.

Language: Английский

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Building competency to deal with environmental health challenges: experiences and a proposal DOI Creative Commons
Giovanni Leonardi, Ariana Zeka, Matthew Ashworth

et al.

Frontiers in Public Health, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 12

Published: Nov. 18, 2024

The global landscape of professional training in environmental health, encompassing ecological public health or lacks consistent implementation for programs practitioners, clinical professionals, and individuals across various disciplines, as well standardized curricula undergraduates. This gap is related to the overall lack capacity addressing population impacts triple challenge pollution, biodiversity loss, climate change, impeding worldwide transition development sustainability. paper reviews existing approaches their potential address challenges within necessarily tight timescale. Spreading best practice appears feasible even without substantial additional resources, through reorientation current practices via comprehensive multi-disciplinary programs. By adopting international focus education can shift from future decision-makers enhancing competencies professionals institutions.

Language: Английский

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