title: [A contemporary model of environmental health sciences: its application in the recruitment of faculty and in academic development].
abstract: The authors describe the development and application of an intellectual model fitted to the environmental health sciences. The model became the basis for the design of a new study plan in addition to providing the strategy for recruitment of the faculty for the new School of Public Health of the San Diego State University in San Diego, California. They give an account of the circumstances leading up to the establishment of this institution, the gradual consolidation of the different health science programs into a single school with graduate studies leading to masters degrees in six main fields: environmental health, occupational health, epidemiology, maternal and child health, health services administration, and health development. The authors see the beginning of a redefinition of the function of the basic sciences represented in environmental health in the light of new knowledge and technology, and believe that all fields of knowledge (microbiology, parasitology and health development) will contribute as a unified whole to increase the capacity of public health to place both biological and environmental health problems in a context that society can control.
mesh_terms: D002140:California; D003479:Curriculum; D004463:Ecology; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D004782:Environmental Health; D004787:Environmental Pollution; D005178:Faculty; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010559:Personnel Management; D010560:Personnel Selection; D012581:Schools, Public Health / Q000458:organization & administration*
vernacular_title: Modelo contemporáneo de las ciencias de la salud ambiental: su aplicación en la obtención de profesores y en el desarrollo académico.