Introduction. Competency-based approaches have been developed in health promotion
over the past four decades but, to date, there has been limited focus on the evaluation of …

This paper reports on a study undertaken to determine what progress has been made in the
uptake and impact of the CompHP Core Competencies on Health Promotion practice …

Background. The CompHP Project on Developing Competencies and Professional
Standards for Health Promotion in Europe was developed in response to the need for new …

Background. The CompHP Pan-European Accreditation Framework for Health Promotion
was developed as part of the CompHP Project that aimed to develop competency-based …

Competencies have been increasingly used in education and the labour market since the
1970s. Within the Health Promotion framework, however, attempts to discuss specific …

The core competencies presented in this Handbook were developed as part of a European
project entitled 'Developing Competencies and Professional Standards for Health Promotion …

This paper reports on a case study that explored the broader contextual factors influencing
the implementation of the CompHP Core Competencies at a country level in Ireland and Italy …

What we now think of as the field of health promotion has grown rapidly in the last 15 years,
mainly out of the field of health education. With this expansion, has come the need to …

Health is regarded as the result of an interaction between individual and environmental
factors. While health education is the process of educating people about health and how …

For health promotion, the work of the CoP presents both an opportunity and a challenge. It is
an opportunity, first of all, because strengthening public health capacities creates a real …