In 1998, a national consensus panel was convened of leading health educators from public health agencies, academic institutions, and professional organizations to answer four questions: 1) What forces are creating the context for your discipline's work?, 2) What are the skills that currently employed personnel need that they do not have?, 3) What are the barriers to teaching these skills?, and 4) What strategies are required to implement needed continuing education? This initiative was part of a larger project, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, to identify what currently employed health educators and other core public health disciplines need to know to function effectively and assure quality public health practice in the context of rapid social change. The health education panel identified several key forces that are creating the context for the work of currently employed health educators and the workforce skills that must be strengthened, e.g., advocacy, business management and finance, communication, community health planning and development, strategic planning, and other areas.
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