A Call to Action
Training Public Health Students to Be Effective Agents for Social Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11031501 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hilary Godwin (Hilary Godwin and S. Jody Heymann are with the Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).), Hilary A Godwin (0000-0003-0795-2066, UCLA Health), Jody Heymann (0000-0003-0008-4198, UCLA Health), S Jody Heymann (Hilary Godwin and S. Jody Heymann are with the Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 105 |
| Issue | S1 |
| Pages | S34-S37 |
| Publication date | 2015-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048 |
| Publisher | American Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2105/ajph.2014.302356 |
| PMID | 25706013 |
| OpenAlex | W2142284613 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
In the 21st century, we face enormous public health challenges that differ fundamentally from those of the last century, because these challenges involve widespread societal change and complexity. To address these challenges, public health professionals need to be able to place their work in a larger social context, understand local and global perspectives on a deeper level, and effectively engage a wide variety of stakeholders. To confer these skills, we need to change the way we train our students. We present two examples of low-cost innovative approaches to teaching public health that promote active engagement with individuals across a wide range of backgrounds and fields and that train students to be effective agents for change
Action (physics) · Behavior change · Business · Call to action · Context (archaeology) · Face (sociological concept) · Geography · Political science · Public health · Public relations · Social change · Social science · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics) · Work (physics) · Computer Science · Engineering · Marketing · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Public Health Policies and Education · Social Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |