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Disease Prevention and Health Promotion: The Past and the Future

Posted on March 15, 2021 0

Vesna Bjegovic-Mikanovic1, Ulrich Laaser1

1University of Belgrade, Faculty of Medicine, Centre School of Public Health and Management, Belgrade, Serbia.

Aim: Disease prevention and health promotion are closely related through the lifestyle concept and should be part of the postgraduate curriculum of every School of Public Health (SPH) in the European Region and beyond, especially with regard to the modifiable behaviors of physical activity and healthy nutrition.

Methods: The Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER) executed two surveys on the activities of its members between 2011 and 2015/2016. A group of 48 SPH responded in both surveys. Performance of graduates was measured by a Likert scale of 1-5, applied to the 10 Essential Public Health Operations (EPHOs). Furthermore we determined the delay in full implementation for the target year 2030.The target to offer both modules in 2030 has been set at 100.

Results: For disease prevention as for health promotion, the 2nd Survey in 2015/2016 shows slightly less positive results (72.9% vs. 77.1% and 81.3% vs. 87.5%) as compared to the 1st Survey in 2011. The only exception is the use of social media which increased for disease prevention from 20.8% to 37.5% of all SPH and for health promotion from 22.9% to 39.6%. Referring to the set target of 100%, delays between 4 and 13.5 years accumulate for the target year 2030.

Conclusions: With the exception of use of social media progress towards 2030 is slow or even negative. Serious efforts have to be made by ASPHER to revert this process.

Keywords: ASPHER, Essential Public Health Operations (EPHOs), disease prevention, health promotion.

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