Identifying Individual Competency in Emerging Areas of Practice: An Applied Approach

Gebbie, Kristine M.; Merrill, Jacqueline; Hwang, Inseon; Gupta, Meera; Btoush, Rula; Wagner, Monte

doi:10.1177/104973202129120403

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“…Competencies for more effective public health practice are becoming clearer (12,13,59). For example, to carry out the EBPH process, the skills needed to make evidence-based decisions require a specific set of competencies (Table 6).…”

Section: Wwwannualreviewsorg • Evidence-based Public Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evidence-Based Public Health: A Fundamental Concept for Public Health Practice

Brownson¹,

Fielding

Maylahn³

2009

Annu. Rev. Public Health

913

678

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Despite the many accomplishments of public health, a greater attention to evidence-based approaches is warranted. This article reviews the concepts of evidence-based public health (EBPH), on which formal discourse originated about a decade ago. Key components of EBPH include making decisions on the basis of the best available scientific evidence, using data and information systems systematically, applying program-planning frameworks, engaging the community in decision making, conducting sound evaluation, and disseminating what is learned. Three types of evidence have been presented on the causes of diseases and the magnitude of risk factors, the relative impact of specific interventions, and how and under which contextual conditions interventions were implemented. Analytic tools (e.g., systematic reviews, economic evaluation) can be useful in accelerating the uptake of EBPH. Challenges and opportunities (e.g., political issues, training needs) for disseminating EBPH are reviewed. The concepts of EBPH outlined in this article hold promise to better bridge evidence and practice. 175

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Section: Wwwannualreviewsorg • Evidence-based Public Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evidence-Based Public Health: A Fundamental Concept for Public Health Practice

Brownson¹,

Fielding

Maylahn³

2009

Annu. Rev. Public Health

913

678

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“…As mentioned above, an abundance of competency sets have broad applicability for public health professionals [e.g., COL competencies, and competencies in public health law, emergency preparedness, and informatics (4,9,25,26,28,37,46,77)], making the selection of relevant competencies for a given discipline difficult. In contrast, certain critical disciplines lack specific competencies in public health to guide their training (e.g., health economists, statisticians, or laboratorians).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Edgar et al (32) recently provided the first substantial evidence of the validity of COL competencies as a tool for determining the competence of the public health workforce. The COL's domains and competencies have served as the framework upon which other public health-relevant competency sets have been built, such as applied epidemiology, public health preparedness, and public health informatics (9,28,37). In 2007-2008, the COL began a multiyear revision of the original COL competency framework (28).…”

Section: Competency-based Educationmentioning

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Outcome-Based Workforce Development and Education in Public Health

Koo

Miner

2010

Annu. Rev. Public Health

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The broad scope of the public health mission leads to an increasingly diverse workforce. Given the range of feeder disciplines and the reality that much of the workforce does not have formal training in public health science and practice, a pressing need exists for training and education throughout the workforce. Just as we in public health take a rigorous approach to our science, so too should we take a rigorous, evidence-driven approach to workforce development. In this review, we recommend a framework for workforce education in public health, integrating three critical conceptual approaches: (a) adult learning theory; (b) competency-based education; and (c) the expanded Dreyfus model in public health, an addition to the Dreyfus model of professional skills progression. We illustrate the application of this framework in practice, using the field of applied epidemiology. This framework provides a context for designing and developing high-quality, outcome-based workforce development efforts and evaluating their impact, with implications for academic and public health practice efforts to educate the public health workforce.

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“…This study used a three‐round e‐mail Delphi approach similar to that used by Gebbie and Merrill (2002) when they identified emergency competencies for public health administrators, professionals, technical workers, and clerical/support staff (Gebbie et al, 2002). The Delphi approach uses a panel of experts who are surveyed using a structured questionnaire on a particular subject over successive rounds to develop consensus.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%