Undergraduate public health: preparing engaged citizens as future health professionals.
This paper addresses two questions: (1) How to explain, from the vantage point of the liberal arts, the value of integrative public health education for undergraduates, and (2) How, simultaneously, to make the case for such a program of study toward a career in health care. A new perspective is offered on baccalaureate study in preparation for engaged citizenship and for pre-professional healthcare education, including discussion of benefits to faculty.
Albertine
Susan
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School of Culture and Society, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, New Jersey, USA. albertine@aacu.org
D040381:Education, Public Health Professional; D006266:Health Education; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D009515:New Jersey; D011634:Public Health / Q000193:education*; D014481:United States