Towards the development of skills-based health promotion competencies: The Canadian experience

Global Health Promotion

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 51-55

  Hyndman, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Consensus Conference; health promotion competencies

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CONSENSUS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; STANDARD; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION;

CONSENSUS; EDUCATION, PROFESSIONAL; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; ONTARIO; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE;

EID: 67650457698     PISSN: 17579759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1757975909104105     Document Type: Article

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