Aligning Public Health Workforce Competencies with Population Health Improvement Goals

Honoré, Peggy A.

doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2014.07.046

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“…More than half of the workforce self-identified training needs in at least one budgeting and financial management skill, which is consistent with previous research on gaps in the business skills of the workforce and the need for financial management competencies for the public health workforce 16,17. In the current era of limited financial resources, it is essential that budgeting and financial management skills, particularly related to the description and application of financial analysis methods and identification and leveraging of a variety of funding mechanisms, are emphasized and developed in the current and future workforce to ensure a maximization of those resources.…”

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Top Training Needs of the Governmental Public Health Workforce

Bogaert

Castrucci

Gould

et al. 2019

Journal of Public Health Management and Practice

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Context: Workforce development in governmental public health has historically focused on discipline-specific skills. However, as the field of public health has evolved, crosscutting skills have become critical. The 2017 fielding of the Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey (PH WINS) provides a national benchmark for gaps in crosscutting skills in state and local health departments. Objective: The purpose of this article is to identify top areas of training needs in the governmental public health workforce using data from PH WINS 2017. Design: PH WINS participants in state and local health departments were surveyed in fall 2017 using a Web-based platform. Balanced repeated replication weights were used to account for complex sample design. Setting: Forty-seven state health agencies, 26 large city health departments, and a nationally representative sample of mid-to-large local health departments. Participants: Permanently employed governmental public health staff. Main Outcome Measures: Training needs were determined by combining self-reported skill importance and proficiency. Skills reported to be of high importance, and low levels of proficiency were coded as training needs. Focus area gaps were defined as having a training need in at least one skill in the focus area. Results: The largest area of training need, regardless of supervisory status, was in budgeting and financial management (55%; 95% confidence interval [CI], 53-56), with a large gap also identified in systems and strategic thinking (49%; 95% CI, 47-50). There was some variation by supervisory status, with training needs for nonsupervisors in change management and in developing a vision for a healthy community for management. Conclusions: The PH WINS training needs assessment provides the first nationally representative data on training needs for the state and local health department workforce. Across state and local health departments, there are common critical training needs essential for the current and future practice of public health.

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confidence: 85%

Top Training Needs of the Governmental Public Health Workforce

Bogaert

Castrucci

Gould

et al. 2019

Journal of Public Health Management and Practice

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“…31 Yet, several studies have highlighted the continued need for increased policy action in state and local health departments 32 – 34 and the need for public health departments to increase their engagement in this area. 39 – 41…”

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confidence: 99%

Perceptions Regarding Importance and Skill at Policy Development Among Public Health Staff

Castrucci

Leider

Sellers

2015

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“…1 Major efforts have been undertaken to create a set of core competencies for public health professionals generally, as well as specifically by discipline and seniority. 19 , 20 While this set of core competencies has been critical in workforce development, 2 challenges have persisted: (1) these competencies are more widely accepted in academia than in public health practice; and (2) the competencies represent a universe of training needs, without explicit prioritization. Establishing priorities among many training needs was a key reason behind the creation of the Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey (PH WINS).…”

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confidence: 99%