Human Rights Education in Public Health Graduate Schools

1996 Survey

Bibliographic Data

ID12440326
AuthorsJoseph E Brenner (0000-0003-1568-5180, corresponding author), Joel Brenner
Year1996
Volume2
Issue1
Pages129-129
Publication date1996-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHealth and Human Rights (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1079-0969 • E-ISSN: 2150-4113
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/4065239
PMID10393634
OpenAlexW2412155007
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited4

ecent expositions of the relationship between health and human rights suggest the need for public health workers to understand human rights concepts and practices. 12'3'4 While specific task-oriented human rights training for health professionals has begun, the availability of ,health and human rights courses in schools of public health (SPH)-a presumptive training ground for public health workers-is open to question.5'6 There have been few systematic attempts to survey human rights education in any health-related graduate program; two existing surveys focus on medical schools, but no prior surveys of SPH exist.7 This in part reflects a general lack of reviews of SPH curricula globally.8 The World Health Organization's data on SPH curricula are both inadequate and seriously outdated. Furthermore, none of the world's four regional associations of SPH, covering the United States, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Asia-Pacific Region, keeps curricular data sufficiently detailed to be useful.910 Therefore, a survey was conducted with the goal of determining the number and content of courses fully and explicitly focused on health and human rights in SPH in the United States and selected countries worldwide

Human rights · Human Rights Education · Political science · Public health · Sociology · Ethics in medical practice · Health and Conflict Studies · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Public Health Policies and Education

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