State Health Agency and Local Health Department Workforce: Identifying Top Development Needs

The local public health agency workforce: research needs and practice realities.

There is a paucity of information about the nation's local governmental public health agency (LPHA) workforce. Without additional research, crucial questions about the individuals providing front-line public health services remain unanswered. Current national efforts to develop a public health workforce research agenda must include strategies for collecting basic data on local governmental publ...

The Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey: The First National Survey of State Health Agency Employees.

CONTEXT Public health practitioners, policy makers, and researchers alike have called for more data on individual worker's perceptions about workplace environment, job satisfaction, and training needs for a quarter of a century. The Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey (PH WINS) was created to answer that call. OBJECTIVE Characterize key components of the public health workforce...

Assessing future health workforce needs

Strengthening Local Health Department Informatics Capacity Through Advocacy, Education, and Workforce Development

Our ability to capture data and create linkages among disparate sources of information has increased exponentially in the digital age. When harnessed and lever-aged to its full potential, the wealth of information we have about our communities has the potential to greatly improve population health outcomes. To do so, local health department (LHD) leaders must effectively use information and inf...

Competency development needs of the Australian public health nutrition workforce.

OBJECTIVES To assess factors affecting competency development of the Australian public health nutrition workforce and investigate competency development intentions, barriers and self-reported training needs. DESIGN Cross-sectional study using self-administered mail- or email-delivered questionnaire. SETTING AND SUBJECTS Two hundred and forty practitioners working in designated community and...