On Strategies to Address Public Health Worker Shortages
September 24, 2010
This presentation by Tom Blanford of the National Education Association (NEA) outlines the teacher supply pipeline, and strategies NEA adopted to recruit and retain teachers. Blanford suggests that some of these strategies (used in the public education field) can also be applied to the public health...
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Competencies for Public Health Workers: A Collection of Competency Sets of Public Health-Related Occupations and Professions
September 23, 2010
Compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2001, this large collection of competencies sets will help you find discipline-specific competencies sets for numerous public health-related occupations and professions.
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Illinois Public Health Preparedness Center Competency Framework
September 21, 2010
The Illinois Public Health Preparedness Center (IPHPC) comprises of core and cross-cutting focal competencies, as well as bioterrorism and emergency readiness competencies. The competencies in this framework are consistent with the national competency formulations advanced by the Council on Linkages...
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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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JPHMP Special Issue on Quality Improvement (Jan/Feb 2010)
September 20, 2010
The Journal of Public Health Management and Practice (JPHMP) January/February 2010 Special Edition on Quality Improvement features the Public Health Foundation's (PHF) QI Experts Les Beitsch, John W. Moran, and William Riley as guest editors as well as authors of articles such as “Quality Improvement...
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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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