183636 Perceived public health/social problems in China: Observations from Chinese social work students

Tuesday, October 28, 2008: 12:30 PM

Edward Saunders, MSW, MPH, PhD , School of Social Work, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
  
Data for this presentation was collected from social work students at Wuhan University, P.R. China in 2005. A total of 80 undergraduate and graduate students were enrolled in a "public health-social work" course, taught for the first time in the People's Republic of China by a U.S. professor. During this course, students were taught about the public health prevention model and infrastructure used in the U.S. and were provided detailed information from "Healthy People 2010". They were also provided information about the health infrastructure and public health policy model in P.R. China. Corresponding information about health outcomes for China were also shared with them. At the end of the course, students prepared presentations which compared health issues/outcomes in the U.S. and P.R. China and shared observations about the leading public health/social problems confronting P.R. China. This latter information provides the basis for this presentation.

Learning Objectives:
1. Discuss data collection among social work students in the P.R. China. 2. Describe the public health social work course taught in the P.R. China (from which data was collected) 3. List the public health problems that Chinese students identified as most important to address by the Chinese government.

Keywords: Global Education, International Public Health

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I hold the MSW, MPH and PhD degrees that represent my training to conduct the research on which this presentation is based. I have made numerous presentations on data collected during a 5-month teaching fellowship at Wuhan University, P.R. China.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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