Social justice and core competencies for public health: improving the fit.

Full Abstract

Social justice is a core value of public health. However, the public health core competencies for Canada document (release 1.0) does not contain any explicit reference to the essential attributes of social justice within the competencies themselves. We argue that social justice attributes should be integrated into the core competencies and propose examples for consideration.

Learn Faster Today Improve your study skills

Author information

Author/s: Edwards, Nancy C (NC); MacLean Davison, Colleen (C);

Affiliation: School of Nursing and Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON. nedwards@uottawa.ca

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Journal: Canadian journal of public health. Revue canadienne de santé publique (Can J Public Health), published in Canada. (Language: eng)

Reference: -2008 Mar-Apr; vol 99 (issue 2) : pp 130-2

Dates: Created 2008/05/06; Completed 2008/06/04;

PMID: 18457288, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

Sourced from the National Library of Medicine. Abstract text and other information may be subject to copyright.

External Links for this article (including full text providers, if available):

Click Electronic Full-text Provider Links to see options for finding the electronic full text links to this article. Note there may be a subscription or fee required for access to the full text. See our FAQ for information on finding FREE full text articles.

This article may also be located in paper journal collections available in many libraries. Use the Journal and Publication Information above to find the full article.

MeSH headings (categories)

This article was linked to the MESH Headings shown below.

Canada
Human Rights - standards
Humans
Professional Competence

These are the highest related articles currently in the database:

See 100+ related articles.