Healthy People 2010 Information Access Project
September 10, 2010
In 2001, PHF assisted the National Library of Medicine (NLM) in the development of the Healthy People 2010 Information Access Project, which provides easily accessible information on evidence-based strategies related to the Healthy People 2010 objectives. By clicking on specific search strategies,...
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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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Crosswalk of the 2010 Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals and the Essential Public Health Services
September 6, 2010
The Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals (Core Competencies) are a consensus set of foundational skills for the broad practice of public health, as defined by the 10 Essential Public Health Services (Essential Services). To ensure that the Core Competencies help build the skills necessary...
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Crosswalk of the 2010 and 2001 Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals
September 3, 2010
This is a crosswalk of the original set of Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals (Core Competencies) adopted in April 2001 and the 2010 version of Core Competencies. The crosswalk maps the 2010 Core Competencies with the 2001 Core Competencies to help illustrate the similarities and differences...
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North Carolina - Public Health Professionals' Self Assessment
September 2, 2010
The North Carolina Public Health Academy created a general public health professionals assessment tool aimed at helping public health professionals discover their level of competence on key dimensions of public health practice.
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Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, CA - Competency Framework
September 2, 2010
Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, CA developed a competency framework for its 4,000 employees using the Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice's Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals' eight domain framework as a starting point. The purpose of the competency...
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Core Public Health Competencies Use at the Public Health Training Centers
September 2, 2010
This document contains results from a 2009 survey that was fielded to public health practitioners that work at the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Public Health Training Centers (PHTCs). The purpose of the survey was to determine how public health practitioners are using the COL...
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