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Creating a sustainable health promotion workforce in Australia: a health promoting approach to professionalisation
Author(s) -
JonesRoberts Andrew,
Phillips Janine,
Tinsley Kirsty
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
health promotion journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 2201-1617
pISSN - 1036-1073
DOI - 10.1071/he13076
Subject(s) - health promotion , workforce , medicine , population health , health policy , public health , nursing , political science , law
Australia currently has a deregulated health promotion workforce; however, internationally, there have been moves to regulate health promotion and establish it as a specialist discipline. Regulation is seen as a way to ensure that health promotion expertise is recognised as an important component of the preventive workforce, providing a mechanism to protect community and industry interests by ensuring that practitioners meet minimum qualifications and demonstrate ongoing fitness to practice. It confers a 'specialist' label on practitioners who gain 'ownership' of the field. It also seeks to strengthen the workforce, and tends to bring prestige, influence and financial rewards to its members.