Developing the first-ever global learning strategy to frame the future of learning for achieving public health goals

Health is at the forefront of everyone's mind. Every country on the planet is currently experiencing the COVID19 pandemic, which is not just causing death and disease, but damaging societies and economies on a significant scale across the world.1 The current pandemic has brought into sharp focu...

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Main Authors: Gaya Gamhewage, Christos Mylonas, Mohamed Mahmoud, Oliver Stucke
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-01-01
Series:Journal of Oral Biology and Craniofacial Research
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212426821001056
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description Health is at the forefront of everyone's mind. Every country on the planet is currently experiencing the COVID19 pandemic, which is not just causing death and disease, but damaging societies and economies on a significant scale across the world.1 The current pandemic has brought into sharp focus the socio-economic factors and inequities in how people experience health and ill health and shone a spotlight on the need for lifelong learning so that health professionals, volunteers, and the public alike can adapt and respond to health threats.But even before the pandemic, the world was changing profoundly in the past few decades, and these changes impacted people's health. Unfortunately, the role of education and learning in the health domain has not kept pace with these changes. Many factors converge to create a major evolution, and some say, revolution, in how education, training and learning for health can and should be leveraged to protect and promote people's health. This paper summarizes some of the critical ideas of an 18-month process to create the first-ever global learning strategy for health by the World Health Organization.
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spelling doaj-art-2517c55d336b4803bfdc1c038d1374d42024-11-23T06:28:56ZengElsevierJournal of Oral Biology and Craniofacial Research2212-42682022-01-011217476Developing the first-ever global learning strategy to frame the future of learning for achieving public health goalsGaya Gamhewage0Christos Mylonas1Mohamed Mahmoud2Oliver Stucke3Corresponding author.; World Health Organization, Geneva, SwitzerlandWorld Health Organization, Geneva, SwitzerlandWorld Health Organization, Geneva, SwitzerlandWorld Health Organization, Geneva, SwitzerlandHealth is at the forefront of everyone's mind. Every country on the planet is currently experiencing the COVID19 pandemic, which is not just causing death and disease, but damaging societies and economies on a significant scale across the world.1 The current pandemic has brought into sharp focus the socio-economic factors and inequities in how people experience health and ill health and shone a spotlight on the need for lifelong learning so that health professionals, volunteers, and the public alike can adapt and respond to health threats.But even before the pandemic, the world was changing profoundly in the past few decades, and these changes impacted people's health. Unfortunately, the role of education and learning in the health domain has not kept pace with these changes. Many factors converge to create a major evolution, and some say, revolution, in how education, training and learning for health can and should be leveraged to protect and promote people's health. This paper summarizes some of the critical ideas of an 18-month process to create the first-ever global learning strategy for health by the World Health Organization.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212426821001056Public healthGlobal strategyWorld Health OrganizationLearning
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Journal of Oral Biology and Craniofacial Research
Public health
Global strategy
World Health Organization
Learning
title Developing the first-ever global learning strategy to frame the future of learning for achieving public health goals
title_full Developing the first-ever global learning strategy to frame the future of learning for achieving public health goals
title_fullStr Developing the first-ever global learning strategy to frame the future of learning for achieving public health goals
title_full_unstemmed Developing the first-ever global learning strategy to frame the future of learning for achieving public health goals
title_short Developing the first-ever global learning strategy to frame the future of learning for achieving public health goals
title_sort developing the first ever global learning strategy to frame the future of learning for achieving public health goals
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Global strategy
World Health Organization
Learning
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