A National Profile of Environmental Health Practice in Slovenia: Assessing the Impact of Curriculum Reform.
For our study, we included 332 graduates from a sanitary engineering program (broadly equivalent to environmental health practitioners) in an analysis comparing graduates who completed their studies before the degree program reform with graduates who completed their studies after the reform. Most of...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Environmental Health Vol. 88; no. 9; pp. 32 - 39 |
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National Environmental Health Association
May2026
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