title: Global health competencies according to nursing faculty from Brazilian higher education institutions.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to identify the agreement of faculty affiliated with Brazilian higher education institutions about the global health competencies needed for undergraduate nursing students' education and whether these competencies were covered in the curriculum offered at the institution where they were teaching.
  
  
  METHODS
  exploratory-descriptive study, involving 222 faculty members who answered the Brazilian version of the "Questionnaire on Core Competencies in Global Health", made available electronically on the website Survey Monkey.
  
  
  RESULTS
  participants predominantly held a Ph.D. (75.8%), were women (91.9%) and were between 40 and 59 years of age (69.3%). The mean and standard deviation of all competencies questioned ranged between 3.04 (0.61) and 3.88 (0.32), with scores for each competency ranging from 1 "strongly disagree" to 4 "strongly agree". The results demonstrated the respondents' satisfactory level of agreement with the global health competencies.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  the study demonstrated a high mean agreement level of the nursing faculty from Brazilian HEI with the global health competencies in the questionnaire. The curricula of the HEI where they teach partially address some of these. The competencies in the domain "Globalization of health and health care" are the least addressed.
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Carla Aparecida Arena
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Ventura
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Isabel Amélia Costa
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Mendes
authors.affiliation: Centre on International Nursing, School of Nursing, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA.
authors.forename: Lynda Law
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Wilson
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Simone
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: de Godoy
authors.affiliation: Department of Behavioral Science, University of Texas, Houston, TX, USA.
authors.forename: Irene
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Tamí-Maury
authors.affiliation: Escuela Nacional de Enfermería y Obstetricia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, México.
authors.forename: Rosa
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zárate-Grajales
authors.affiliation: Escuela Nacional de Enfermería y Obstetricia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, México.
authors.forename: Susana
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Salas-Segura
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001938:Brazil; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003479:Curriculum; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D005181:Faculty, Nursing; D005260:Female; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012579:Schools, Nursing; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult