Panmela Soares1, Carmen Vives-Cases1,2,3, Vicente Clemente-Gómez3, Rocío Ortiz-Moncada1,3, Elena Lobo-Escolar4,5,6, Diego Rada-Fernández de Jauregui7, Victoria Arija8, Ángel R Zapata-Moya9, Mari Carmen Davó-Blanes1,3. 1. Public Health Research Group, Department of Community Nursing, Preventive Medicine and Public Health and History of Science, University of Alicante, Alicante, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain. 2. CIBER in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain. 3. Public Health Research Group, University of Alicante, Alicante, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain. 4. Department of Microbiology, Preventive Medicine and Public Health, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain. 5. Institute of Health Research of Aragon (IIS Aragón), Zaragoza, Comunidad de Aragón, Spain. 6. Center for Network Biomedical Research in Mental Health (CIBERSAM), Ministry of Science and Innovation, Madrid, Spain. 7. Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, University of the Basque Country/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Pais Vasco, Spain. 8. Nutrition and Public Health Unit, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Catalunya, Spain. 9. Department of Social Anthropology, Basic Psychology and Public Health, Pablo de Olavide University, Sevilla, Andalucia, Spain.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To gather consensus on professional competencies and basic public health content for the degree program in Human Nutrition and Dietetics (HND). DESIGN: In 2018, the Fifth Meeting of University Public Health Professors took place in Zaragoza (Spain). Fourteen lecturers in the HND degree program participated from 11 Spanish universities. They identified competencies and basic content for training for the HND degree using group dynamics and consensus strategies. RESULTS: The professors identified 51 basic competencies, distributed in the areas of "evaluation of population health needs" (n = 20), "development of health policies" (n = 23), and "guaranteeing provision of health care services" (n = 8). In order to reach these competencies, 35 topics were proposed organized into six thematic blocks: foundations of public health, nutritional epidemiology, health problems and diet and nutrition strategies, food security, health in all policies and health promotion and education. CONCLUSION: The consensus reached serves as a reference to orient and update public health education as a part of the HND degree.
OBJECTIVE: To gather consensus on professional competencies and basic public health content for the degree program in Human Nutrition and Dietetics (HND). DESIGN: In 2018, the Fifth Meeting of University Public Health Professors took place in Zaragoza (Spain). Fourteen lecturers in the HND degree program participated from 11 Spanish universities. They identified competencies and basic content for training for the HND degree using group dynamics and consensus strategies. RESULTS: The professors identified 51 basic competencies, distributed in the areas of "evaluation of population health needs" (n = 20), "development of health policies" (n = 23), and "guaranteeing provision of health care services" (n = 8). In order to reach these competencies, 35 topics were proposed organized into six thematic blocks: foundations of public health, nutritional epidemiology, health problems and diet and nutrition strategies, food security, health in all policies and health promotion and education. CONCLUSION: The consensus reached serves as a reference to orient and update public health education as a part of the HND degree.
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