Research on the training and specialization of professionals of environmental medicine in the health sector.

Elaboration of a project on the training and awareness of practitioners in the field of environmental medicine and environmental health.The project has been proposed with the support of the Mixed Interministerial Conference on Environment and Health (CIMES- GICLG) and the framework of the second National Environmental and Health Action Plan (NEHAP 2009-2013). The project, approved by the CIMES-GICLG, has been defined according to the action 10 of the EU action plan on environment and health (2004-2010) and the paragraph 18 of the WHO declaration at Budapest in 2004. The objectives and targets of the project aim to: - Provide recommendations for the (feasibility) implementation of environmental health in education for all medical professionals, including new students and already qualified professionals. - Provide recommendations about the need for tools or instruments to support medical professionals in their practice on environmental health/medicine.- Provide recommendations about the curriculum content at different levels of training, including nurses and mid-wives.

Keywords:ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH, ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE, HEALTH EDUCATION

Disciplines:Public health care, Public health sciences, Public health services, Applied sociology, Policy and administration, Social psychology, Social stratification, Social theory and sociological methods, Sociology of life course, family and health, Other sociology and anthropology

Project type:Collaboration project