Management Self Assessment for Health Department Staff
September 21, 2010
A state health department developed this tool to assess the skills and competencies of its managers.
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Guidelines for Assigning Competencies and Skill Levels to Courses
September 21, 2010
The TRAIN Course Provider Reference Guide (last updated in 2013) has information that can assist course providers with assigning the Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals, as well as Bioterrorism and Emergency Readiness Competencies to courses. The guide also shows course providers how to...
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Developing a Clinical Appointment Track in a School of Public Health: A Guide
September 20, 2010
This guide can be used to establish a clinical appointment track in graduate public health schools and programs. It was developed in 1993, after the 1988 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report "The Future of Public Health" was published. The IOM report noted that schools of public health (SPH) had become...
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Public Health Practice: A Student's Guide to Workforce Initiatives
September 16, 2010
This presentation, prepared in 2002, for the students at the University of Texas at Houston School of Public Health, focuses on workforce initiatives of significant importance to students, with an emphasis on workforce competencies:
Introduction - Gives an overview about national workforce ini...
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The New Look in Public Health Practice - Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals
September 16, 2010
"Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals: The New Look in Public Health Practice" is a presentation prepared for the Texas Public Health Training Center in 2002. It describes what the Core Competencies are, how they were developed, and how they relate to other workforce development initiatives....
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Public Health Competencies Webcast by Kathy Miner
September 16, 2010
This "Core Competencies Webcast" presented by Kathy Miner, PhD (Emory Rollins School of Public Health) to the Council on Linkages Core Competencies Workgroup in February 2008 provides information about how one can go about developing competencies correctly.
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Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals: Feedback Data
September 16, 2010
The "Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals: Feedback Data" presentation was prepared for the Council on Linkages meeting in June 2009. This presentation outlines the demographics of individuals that commented on the draft Tier 2 Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals that were...
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Developing a Public Health Research & Applications Agenda: Tools for the 21st Century
September 16, 2010
In 1998, the Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice (Council on Linkages) began developing a plan that could lead to a national public health research agenda. Subsequently, a Council on Linkages ad hoc committee developed a framework using both Healthy People 2010 objectives...
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Results from the 2006 Council on Linkages Survey on Use of the Public Health Competencies
September 15, 2010
According to a 2006 Council on Linkages survey on use of the Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals (Core Competencies) by academic institutions, over 90% of survey respondents stated that they had integrated the Core Competencies into their curricula. Out of 237 schools of public health,...
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Journals that Publish Practice
September 15, 2010
Interested in learning which journals publish public health practice articles? Download this document (last updated in 2006).
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