Who Will Keep the Public Healthy? Workshop Summary (2003) / Chapter Skim
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Second, these inclividuals must be provicleci with cutting ecige education in order to assure that they are equipped in the best possible fashion to do the job that needs to be done. Meeting the challenges, educated public health professionals will help transform the public health landscape.
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for a public health workforce; a workforce that is well supported by the public it serves. Public health professionals must reach out to the community with a communication strategy that will help enhance the awareness, unclerstanding, and support for what public health is and what it can accomplish.
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in the report: infor~natics, genomics, communication, cultural competence, community-based participatory research, global health, policy and law, and public health ethics. She then describecl the role of schools of public health in educating public health professionals as delineated in the report.
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Gebbie discussed the way in which the committee report described the public health agency role in educating public health professionals. These agencies must be actively engaged in assessing their own workforce, in developing plans for improving workforce training, and in working with schools and programs to develop improver!
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An analogous step for public health is to tie in the practice opportunities for our students. Yet we also must be sensitive to the public health funding realities, particularly in local health departments.
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Lastly, Dr. Lichtveld stated that CDC will continue to support the Public Health Workforce Collaborative, staffed by ASTHO, to foster workforce development.
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Mr. Atchison reported that Group ~ believes it important to define and clarify the academic public health agency model, identify and recognize existing academic public health agencies, convene a best practices conference, and fund initiation and refinement of these agencies.
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be clone at the local level in terms of partnerships. Establishing academic health departments is a national priority ant!
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programs currently produce about 5,500 graduates per year · only about ~ 0°/0 of these graduates join the governmental public health workforce. Whatever credentialing process is developed should not compromise the replenishment of the public health workforce.
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Are we attempting to create a program in public health education where one size fits all? Or should we be looking at training, educating, and preparing a population of public health professionals?
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Need to clevelop a core mantra for public health professionals to explain what a public health professional is or does. Need to develop a plan for transdiciplinary recruitment of professions that weren't even mentioned in the report, for example, psychology and sociology.
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The governmental public health agencies, however, are not reaping the benefits of education in the schools. Adclitionally, the group believes that unclerstanding the human resources systems, the salary structures and the incentives in governmental public health needs to be undertaken concurrently with unclerstancling what needs to be clone eclucationally.
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