School of Public Health of Mexico: Educational and technological innovation in the new millennium

• Main Authors: Laura Magaña-Valladares, Juana Elvira Suárez-Conejero, Mauricio Hernández-Ávila, María Rosa Gudiño-Cejudo
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública 2014-11-01
• Series: Salud Pública de México
• Subjects: salud pública; tecnologías; competencias; innovación; automatización; México
• Online Access: http://www.saludpublica.mx/index.php/spm/article/view/7394
• ISSN: 0036-3634; 1606-7916

This article was conceived to analyze the work of the School of Public Health of Mexico (ESPM for is acronym in Spanish) from the year 2000 to the present day. One of the highlights that we will examine is the reorientation of the educational work of the school in order to meet the challenges in health and education that emerged during the end of the twentieth century. In order to explain the evolution of this process, we will describe the three main guiding principles that characterize the present work of the school: the pedagogical model´s change, the incorporation of the information and communication technologies, and the professionalization in teaching. The purpose of this work is to define those guiding principles, and to expose, through the contrast between past and present, the complete history of uninterrupted work of the School of Public Health of Mexico during its ninety-two years of existence, that has gone beyond the boundaries of the country.