Public Health has become an increasingly prominent discipline within all European member states and also across the European Union as a whole. Public health professionals have to cooperate across borders, using mainly English as a means of both face to face communication and information disseminatio...

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Other Authors:	Czabanowska, Katarzyna (Editor)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Krakow Jagiellonian University Press 2008
Subjects:	Medizin Medicine / Dictionaries Medicine / Terms and phrases Medicine / Dictionaries / Polish Medicine / Dictionaries / English Polish language / Conversation and phrase books (for medical personnel) Wörterbuch
Online Access:	BSB01 Volltext
Summary:	Public Health has become an increasingly prominent discipline within all European member states and also across the European Union as a whole. Public health professionals have to cooperate across borders, using mainly English as a means of both face to face communication and information dissemination. As a result, there has been a transformation in the way in which public health is taught and practiced: language, therefore, adds another dimension to this already multidisciplinary and multi-faceted field of study.The Leonardo Project English for European Public Health. A Specialized Course for Students and Professionals has been created in response to this new trend. An international team of both health sciences specialists and language specialists has collaborated on a collection of materials which seeks to address the new needs. The collection consists of a student coursebook, an instructor's manual, a learner's dictionary and an online learning environment. Texts representative of the major fields of Public Health have been collated and developed for didactic purposes, covering Epidemiology, Environmental Health, Health Promotion, Health Policy, Health Economics, Management, Health Ethics and Law, and Research.The Learner's Dictionary is a first attempt to develop a comprehensive, interdisciplinary aid to vocabulary learning for Public Health teachers and students across Europe. It has been developed through a unique combination of Public Health specialists and language teachers working together to define and translate a wide range of Public Health terms which are sufficiently accurate to assist professional development whilst at the same time presented in a way that will enhance language acquisition. Although the principal target learners are university students, the materials have much to offer professionals and practitioners as well
Item Description:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 May 2016)
Physical Description:	1 online resource (353 pages)
ISBN:	9788323384397