Educating Future Environmental Health Professionals.

Content Provider	Europe PMC
Author	Knechtges, Paul L Kelley, Timothy R
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	Future environmental health problems will require a new generation of educated and trained professionals. Efforts to enhance the environmental public health workforce have been promoted by several organizations. While progress has been measured by these organizations, many environmental health academic programs are experiencing budget reductions and lower enrollments. One of the reasons for this trend is the so-called higher education crisis. We argue that training is not equivalent to education in the environmental health sciences, albeit the two terms are often used interchangeably. Organizations involved with the education, training, and credentialing of environmental health professionals must work together to ensure the viability and effectiveness of environmental health academic programs.
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Journal	Environmental Health Insights [Environ Health Insights]
Volume Number	9
PubMed Central reference number	PMC4651418
PubMed reference number	26617460
e-ISSN	11786302
DOI	10.4137/ehi.s33105
Language	English
Publisher	Libertas Academica
Publisher Date	2015-11-16
Access Restriction	Open
Rights License	This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC 3.0 License. © 2015 the author(s), publisher and licensee Libertas Academica Ltd.
Subject Keyword	environmental health environmental public health education training competency professional
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis Pollution Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health