A Complete Quality System Requires a Complete Leader
December 14, 2010
At every organizational level a critical mass of leadership must be trained in the principles of quality, problem solving, teaming, and facilitation. Leadership must be able to lead and facilitate teams so that they can show they walk the talk and embrace the principles imbedded in a Complete Quality...
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Recruiting & Retaining Public Health Workers – Lessons Learned from a Survey of Public Health Workers
November 9, 2010
This presentation, given by Vincent T. Francisco, PhD and Robin Pendley, MPH, CPH outlines the background and purpose of a public health workforce survey that was deployed by the Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice (Council on Linkages) in the spring of 2010. The presentation...
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PHF's New Resources for Learning Catalog
November 1, 2010
The Public Health Foundation’s Learning Resource Center is pleased to announce that the latest edition of Resources for Learning, a catalog of valuable educational materials and resources for public health, healthcare, and other professionals, is now available. To order a hard copy of the catalog, please...
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Starting and Sustaining a Complete Quality System
October 8, 2010
John W. Moran and Grace Duffy wrote an article entitled “Starting and Sustaining a Complete Quality System” that was featured in the August 2010 Quality Texas Foundation Update. The article describes a complete quality system and focuses on the processes that need to be in place to maintain consistency...
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Managing Conflict in the Workplace
October 5, 2010
Conflict management skills are used in all aspects of life. From interpersonal to work situations, all of us need these skills in one way or another. Some of the fundamentals of effective conflict management are intuitive, while others stretch our preferred methods of dealing with others. "Managing...
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Genomics Competencies for the Public Health Workforce
October 5, 2010
The Genomic Workforce Competencies were developed in 2001 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as a tool for public health programs and schools of public health to incorporate genomics into existing competencies and program training goals.
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Core Competencies in Injury and Violence Prevention
October 5, 2010
This document outlines the process used to develop the Core Competencies in Injury and Violence Prevention. In 2000, the Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research (SAVIR) and the State and Territorial Injury Prevention Directors Association (STIPDA) formed the National Training Initiative...
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Competencies Designed for Epidemiologists - by the Northwest Center for Public Health Practice, University of WA
October 5, 2010
In 2005, the Northwest Center for Public Health Practice (NWCPHP) developed competency-based epidemiology training materials for public health professionals in practice. Its goal was to develop a competency set for public health epidemiology, with accompanying curricula and instructional materials...
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Comparison of Health Education and Basic Public Health Professional Competencies
October 5, 2010
This paper shows how the National Health Education Competencies (developed by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing) and the Core Public Health Competencies (developed by the Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice) were compared qualitatively to determine...
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Competencies for Applied Epidemiologists in Governmental Public Health Agencies
October 5, 2010
The Competencies for Applied Epidemiologists in Governmental Public Health Agencies (Applied Epidemiology Competencies, or AECs) were created by the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2008. They were developed to improve...
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