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Published on: July 5, 2017
[Effect of short-term global health training on tropical diseases and its related factors]
Li Hong-Mei1, Ding Wei1, Huang Lu-Lu1
1National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention; WHO Collaborating Center for Tropical Diseases; National Center for International Research on Tropical Diseases, Ministry of Science and Technology; Key Laboratory of Parasites and Vector Biology, National Health and Family Planning Commission, Shanghai 200025, China.
Objective:
To investigate the effect of short-term global health training on tropical diseases in China, so as to provide the reference in professional trainings.
Methods:
The study took the short-term global health training project on tropical diseases in China as an example. The structured questionnaires were distributed to each trainee pre- and post-training course.
Results:
A total of 89 trainees were included in the survey, and 68.5% (61 cases) of the trainees were older than 35 years and 85.4% (76 cases) of the trainees came from provincial institutes. The passing rate for the test of global health knowledge was significantly improved from the pre-training test (18.0%, 16/89) to the post one (68.2%, 58/85) (χ2 = 44.930, P < 0.05) . The knowledge of global health was closely related to the professionals' capacity, i.e., the education level, age, professional title, and experience of international cooperation, but was not statistically related to their genders.
Conclusions:
This kind of short-term trainings not only greatly improves the professionals' knowledge of tropical diseases control, but also is expected to play a leading role in the international cooperation of global health and tropical diseases control in the future.
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