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Four Ways To Teach PHC in a Changing World
Author(s) -
Shoultz Jan,
Kooker Barbara Molina,
Sloat Ann R.,
Hatcher Penny A.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
international nursing review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.84
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1466-7657
pISSN - 0020-8132
DOI - 10.1046/j.1466-7657.45.no.6issue342.8.x
Subject(s) - socioeconomic status , nurse educator , nursing , health care , primary health care , community health , sociology , pedagogy , medical education , psychology , medicine , nurse education , political science , public health , environmental health , population , law
Nurse educators are challenged to revise teaching/learning methods to support community‐based primary health care (PHC) systems. The key elements are: integrating education with the realities of practice and people's needs; moving communities to strive towards solving their own health problems; and recognizing the socioeconomic health determinants. Described below are four educational methods based on PHC: inquiry‐based learning, IMPACTS (a game to encourage multisectoral collaboration), distance education and community‐based education.