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Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health

and stupid, as well as the kind and sensible, ways in which we manage our patients. Since it is written by sociologists, much of it is written in their jargon which is often irritating and occasionally almost unintelligible, but its great merit is the challenge it presents to the almost unconscious mantle of superiority that many, if not most, doctors assume in their relation to their patients. The mere fact that we use the word 'patient' rather than 'client', which is more appropriate in today's medicine, makes this point. We often refer to 'difficult patients' who want to know too much; but seldom of 'difficult doctors' who will not listen or tell enough. Many of the stories in the book recount the discrepancy between patients' desire and ability to control medical encounters that accounts for the feelings of frustration and helplessness that are reported in consumer (patient) satisfaction studies. In other stories we read of doctors' resentment, instead of grateful acceptance, of patients who really do know more about their condition than the doctor (examples are given of recurrentpneumothorax dangerously ignored and psoriasis and migraine being disdainfully handled). Nor is it only doctors who assume and enjoy the sense of power over patients that they feel. Nurses are just as bad. In one ante-natal clinic, with the patient naked and prone, the midwife 'left the room temporarily and I picked up a book I had brought along. She returned and whipped the volume away, instructed me to "lie ready for the doctor" '. Where else in human society would one adult (a nurse) say to another (a sociologist) who on a hot day, was going to the balcony for a breath of air: "You mustn't do that, you might catch cold ?

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The Role of Medicine: Dream, Mirage or Nemesis?

This article was prepared to inform the deliberations of the Galway Consensus Conference by providing a common and global reference point for the discussion of terminology and key conceptual and professional issues in the credentialing of health education and health promotion specialists. The article provides a review of the terminology that is currently employed across different countries in defining health education and health promotion as well as health educator and health promotion specialist. The terminology used to describe concepts in professional credentialing of health education and health promotion specialists and the scope of professional responsibilities of such specialists, including the terms professional competencies, professional standards, and accreditation, are also reviewed. Finally, key unresolved issues are identified and discussed from a global perspective. The article concludes that despite differences in terminology in the definitions of roles and responsibilities, health education and health promotion are conceptually more similar than different across countries.

Perspectives on Terminology and Conceptual and Professional Issues in Health Education and Health Promotion Credentialing

There is a growing and diverse health promotion workforce in Europe; however, no overall body has responsibility for quality assuring standards of training and professional practice at the European level. This paper provides an overview of recent developments in Europe, including initiatives led by the International Union for Health Promotion and Education, in the context of developing a pan-European accreditation system. Specific developments on establishing national-level accreditation processes in the UK, Estonia and The Netherlands are examined. While there is limited experience in this field across Europe, lessons can be learned from those countries with established systems. This paper focuses on those countries which have developed competencies, standards and accreditation systems, and the implications for developing a pan-European accreditation system are discussed. Differences between countries in the formats, content and processes of developing accreditation, coupled with the different educational, practice, political and resource situations, reflect the complexity of developing a pan-European system that is flexible, relevant and comprehensive. The development of competencies, standards and accreditation is not intended to be directed at health promotion specialists alone but aims to assure quality in performance of all those who contribute to health promotion, from whatever background or area of professional practice. It is likely that there will be a need to develop a robust system that will accommodate different levels of accreditation for different levels and fields of practice. Developing a pan-European accreditation system poses a significant challenge but also presents a unique opportunity to form a solid basis for building capacity and assuring quality for health promotion practice, research and training across the European region.

Perspectives on health promotion competencies and accreditation in Europe.

Introduction. Competency-based approaches have been developed in health promotion over the past four decades but, to date, there has been limited focus on the evaluation of their use and impact. In 2016, 5 years after publication of the CompHP Core Competencies Framework for Health Promotion, an evaluation of their use and impact across the health promotion community in Europe was initiated. As a first step in this process, a scoping review of the literature was undertaken which aimed to explore the current status of health promotion competencies, with a particular focus on developments in Europe and ascertain what evidence exists about the use and impact of health promotion competencies on practice, education, and training. Method. Searches of the electronic databases and gray literature were conducted between February 2016 and December 2017. The searches were limited to sources published in English between 2009 and 2017, which focused on health promotion competencies. Results. A total of 39 sources were identified for in-depth analysis, of which 26 were theoretical papers and 13 were papers reporting on empirical studies. Many of the sources presented health promotion competency frameworks or described their development. Some examples of the use of health promotion competencies were found but only two instances of their evaluation were identified. Conclusions. The review found few empirical studies on the implementation and use of health promotion competencies and highlights a lack of evaluation studies on their impact on practice, education, and training.

Has the Development of Health Promotion Competencies Made a Difference? A Scoping Review of the Literature:

Competencies have been increasingly used in education and the labour market since the 1970s. Within the Health Promotion framework, however, attempts to discuss specific competencies are rather incipient. This paper aims to introduce a discussion on the most essential and desirable health promotion competencies using the EUMAHP (European Masters in Health Promotion) framework. In preparation of this review, we considered three main sources to lead the identification of health promotion competencies: a) a review of the history, culture and identity of health promotion in Europe, b) an analysis of what competencies could be drawn from the health promotion most significant milestones and practice, c) a consultation with health promotion experts, practitioners and trainees. As a result of this exercise a number of competencies were selected and tentatively grouped into the four EUMAHP training core curriculum components: Foundations for Health Promotion (understanding of social, cultural and subjecti...

A review of professional competencies in health promotion: European perspectives

Paradigms and related discourses on health are historically related to the specific socio-economic, cultural and political context in which they are produced Biomedicine has been the dominant paradigm concerning health in western industrial society, perceiving health as absence of illness Since the 1970's - 1980's the dominance of the bio-medical paradigm in health has benn questioned An important challenge has come from the World Health Organisation who took the lead in the 1970's-1980's in rediscovering public health and promoting it as the new public health The Ottawa Charter of Health Promotion provided the ideological definition and political strategy for new public health solutions to current health problems world wide Such Charter solutions were clarified and further elaborated on in a series of major international, health promotion conferences and meetings

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A review of professional competencies in health promotion: European perspectives

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