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The 2006 World Health Report highlighted the shortage of adequately prepared health professionals as the most significant threat to world health. This book focuses on the training of health professional educators (both teachers and practitioners) in low resource countries and communities at different levels of technological and material sophistication. Primarily, the book trains interdisciplinary health educators and practitioners to improve their pedagogical skills and to increase the quality and numbers of health care workers (physicians, nurses, health officers, medical laboratory technicians, environmental technicians) available to work with different cultures and linguistic groups in any one country. In addition, this book interests the growing number of graduate nurse educators and practitioners in countries who teach, research and practice within the international context.|The 2006 World Health Report highlighted the shortage of adequately prepared health professionals as the most significant threat to world health. This book focuses on the training of health professional educators (both teachers and practitioners) in low resource countries and communities at different levels of technological and material sophistication. Primarily, the book trains interdisciplinary health educators and practitioners to improve their pedagogical skills and to increase the quality and numbers of health care workers (physicians, nurses, health officers, medical laboratory technicians, environmental technicians) available to work with different cultures and linguistic groups in any one country. In addition, this book interests the growing number of graduate nurse educators and practitioners in countries who teach, research and practice within the international context.

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Joyce P. Murray, EdD, RN, FAAN, became Director, Ethiopia Public Health Training Initiative, The Carter Center, in 2002, to meet the education and training needs of staff at over 500 new health centers in Ethiopia. A past president of, National League for Nursing, she holds a professorship in nursing, Emory University. Having worked extensively in mental health nursing, curriculum development, leadership and service, she brings a broad portfolio of experience in nursing practice, education and public health to the developing country health science education milieu. Dr. Murray is one of the principal originators of the educational materials described in the text. She is well published in the nursing literature, appears at major nursing meetings internationally, and is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.

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