Survey for Schools of Public Health
September 15, 2010
This tool (created in 2001) was developed to help Schools of Public Health and other academic institutions assess the status and composition of their existing partnerships with health departments.
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Health Department Survey
September 15, 2010
Public health departments can use this survey instrument to assess the status and composition of their existing partnerships with academic institutions. (Last updated in 2000.)
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Multi Component Affiliation Agreements Between Schools of Public Health and Public Health Agencies
September 15, 2010
Multi-Component Affiliation (MCA) agreements are contractual agreements between schools of public health (SPH) and governmental public health agencies. This tool can be used to help develop formal partnerships between public health agencies and academic institutions. This tool also provides examples...
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Collaboration Between Health Departments and Schools Through Staff Exchange Programs
September 15, 2010
This tool (developed in 1993) can be used to help develop faculty/staff exchanges between academic institutions and health departments, facilitating practitioner review of training program content.
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A Dwindling Public Health Workforce: Are We Prepared to Act?
September 15, 2010
"A Dwindling Public Health Workforce: Are We Prepared to Act?" is a presentation that was given at the 133rd Annual Conference of the American Public Health Association (APHA). It outlines some of the problems being faced by the public health workforce even today (e.g. an aging workforce, budget constraints...
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Core Competencies Tools You Can Use
September 11, 2010
This is a listing of tools and resources that can be used to assist individual public health workers, and public health organizations with using the Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals to strengthen workforce development efforts. These tools will also help public health practice and academic...
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Competency Assessment Tool for Healthcare Executives
September 8, 2010
The Healthcare Executive Competencies Assessment Tool developed by the American College of Healthcare Executives is an instrument healthcare executives can use to assess their expertise in critical areas of healthcare management. It also connects health administration competencies to example work experiences...
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Competency to Curriculum Toolkit
September 8, 2010
The "Competency to Curriculum Toolkit" was published in March 2008, following extensive work by Kristine Gebbie, DrPH, RN and others. The toolkit can help describe and integrate core and discipline-specific competencies into health professions and continuing education training programs.
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Comments on the Draft Healthy People 2010 Objectives
September 7, 2010
These comments were made by the Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice regarding the Healthy People 2010 Draft Objectives. (Last updated in 1998.)
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Council on Linkages: Distance Learning in Public Health
September 6, 2010
In the article entitled Council On Linkages: Distance Learning In Public Health, Dennis McDowell and Nona Gibbs indicate that distance learning (also referred to as "taking training to the learner") is an increasingly popular tool for retraining the public health workforce, especially at a time when...
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