Abstract

PERDOMO VICTORIA, Irene  and  RODRIGUEZ BOZA, Edith. Competences of hygiene and epidemiology specialists: analysis of the health situation and health surveillance. Havana City, 2000. Rev Cubana Hig Epidemiol [online]. 2005, vol.43, n.2. ISSN 0253-1751.

The profesional competences are a particular element of the working competences and are those in which the performance of the professional is synthesized on developing himself in front of his object of work. They are a set of knowledge, skills and aptitudes necessary to exert a profession, to solve professional problems in an autonomous and flexible way and to be able to cooperate in his setting and in the organization of work. Aimed at describing the professional competences of the hygiene and epidemiology specialists in the functions of analysis of the health situation (AHS) and health surveillance, a descriptive study was conducted among 24 specialists graduated from the National School of Public Health between 1992 and 1999 that were working in Havana City in 2000, when the information was collected. Two instruments were designed and validated to be applied to the specialists and their immediate boss. A focal group was created for the identification of the competences. 70 % of the specialists were in the group aged 30-39 and 25.0 worked in provincial centres of hygiene and epidemiology. It was evidenced that 97 % of the professionals working on the AHS found their competences satisfactory, whereas in health surveillance more than 50 % did so, too. It is stressed that in both cases the qualifications were obtained starting from the documental review and the interview with the immediate boss.

Keywords : Professional competences; analysis of the health situation,; health surveillance..

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