Competencies to Practice Toolkit: A Repository of Workforce Development Resources for Public Health (2011 APHA Annual Meeting)
November 21, 2011
This presentation offers an update on the development of tools to aid public health professionals and organizations in using the Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals. Tools highlighted include job descriptions, “e.g.s” to clarify competencies, examples that demonstrate attainment of co...
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Key Findings from a Council on Linkages Survey of Public Health Workers (2011 APHA Annual Meeting)
November 21, 2011
This presentation highlights findings from a Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice survey of public health workers to determine how and why they enter the public health field and reasons they remain in that workforce. Implications for public health recruitment and retention...
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Academic Health Department Learning Community: A New Opportunity for Academic-Practice Collaboration (2011 APHA Annual Meeting)
November 21, 2011
This presentation introduces the Academic Health Department (AHD) Learning Community and the AHD concept. The AHD concept is illustrated by case studies describing the well-established AHD relationships of the Jefferson County (AL) Department of Health and the newly-formed partnership between the University...
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Improving and Measuring the Impact of Training: Strategies and Methods
November 21, 2011
Under contract with the Health Resources and Services Administration, the Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice (Council on Linkages) explored strategies, methods, and tools for improving and measuring the impact of training on the public health workforce. The results of work...
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Assessing and Building a Culture of Quality Improvement in Your Agency Presentation
July 12, 2011
These slides provide an overview of the culture of quality improvement (QI), the steps needed to build and change organizational culture, becoming aware of the six indicators of a culture, and how to rate an organization’s culture using a radar chart. These slides are excerpted from a presentation...
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Conduct a Personalized SWOT: Align Yourself for Professional Growth
June 16, 2011
This free resource offers tools and methods for individuals to learn how to fully promote their talents, skills, and abilities within their organization. The personal SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) is a useful tool for investigating conflict between individual and organizational...
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Helping to Improve and Measure the Impact of Public Health Training: Literature Summary
June 13, 2011
The Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice (Council on Linkages) aims to assist the field to improve and measure the impact of public health training through forming the Training Impact Task Force. This short literature search was conducted and presented to the Council on Linkages...
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Academic Health Departments: Improving Health In Your Community
June 6, 2011
Designed to promote and encourage discussion about academic health departments (AHDs), this one page summary provides a brief overview of the AHD concept, benefits of AHD partnerships, and steps to begin building AHDs.
What is an Academic Health Department (AHD)?
How can an AHD help my community?
How...
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Bridging the Academic/Practice Divide: Facilitating Collaboration within Public Health
May 27, 2011
Bridging the Academic/Practice Divide: Facilitating Collaboration within Public Health is a poster that provides an overview of the Academic Health Department (AHD) Learning Community initiative. The development and activities of the AHD Learning Community are detailed, and the utility of information...
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Applications and Tools for Creating and Sustaining Healthy Teams
April 25, 2011
Published on the Public Health Foundation (PHF) website in April 2011, Applications and Tools for Creating and Sustaining Healthy Teams is designed as a guide to help organizations optimize the use of teams. Primarily a collection of papers and essays previously published elsewhere, this book is ideal...
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