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标题：Improving public health training and research capacity in Africa: a replicable model for linking training to health and socio-demographic surveillance data
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作者：Jill R. Williams ; Enid J. Schatz ; Benjamin D. Clark 等
期刊名称：Global Health Action
印刷版ISSN：1654-9716
电子版ISSN：1654-9880
出版年度：2010
卷号：3
期号：0
DOI：10.3402/gha.v3i0.5287
语种：English
出版社：Taylor & Francis
摘要：Background: Research training for public health professionals is key to the future of public health and policy in Africa. A growing number of schools of public health are connected to health and socio-demographic surveillance system field sites in developing countries, in Africa and Asia in particular. Linking training programs with these sites provides important opportunities to improve training, build local research capacity, foreground local health priorities, and increase the relevance of research to local health policy. Objective: To increase research training capacity in public health programs by providing targeted training to students and increasing the accessibility of existing data. Design: This report is a case study of an approach to linking public health research and training at the University of the Witwatersrand. We discuss the development of a sample training database from the Agincourt Health and Socio-demographic Surveillance System in South Africa and outline a concordant transnational intensive short course on longitudinal data analysis offered by the University of the Witwatersrand and the University of Colorado-Boulder. This case study highlights ways common barriers to linking research and training can be overcome. Results and Conclusions: This collaborative effort demonstrates that linking training to ongoing data collection can improve student research, accelerate student training, and connect students to an international network of scholars. Importantly, the approach can be adapted to other partnerships between schools of public health and longitudinal research sites. Keywords: Africa; public health training; data accessibility; research capacity; health policy (Published: 31 August 2010) Citation: Global Health Action 2010, 3: 5287 - DOI: 10.3402/gha.v3i0.5287
关键词：Population Health; Public Health; Demography; Health Systems;;Population Health; public health training; data accessibility; research capacity; health research and policy; Africa;RA440-440.87