In the 10 years 1990-2000, despite improvements in some conditions, there has been little or no overall progress in the health of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations of Australia. This is in stark contrast to the gains made in Indigenous health in other countries. The issue is one of lack of commitment to and implementation of already existing policies. We need to (i) fully an...

Background Problem Management Plus (PM+) is a brief multicomponent intervention incorporating behavioral strategies delivered by lay health workers. The effectiveness of PM+ has been evaluated in randomized controlled trials in Kenya and Pakistan. When developing interventions for large-scale implementation it is considered essential to evaluate their feasibility and acceptability in addition t...

It has been 20 years since the last estimate of the public health workforce's size and composition. This study provides a best estimate through secondary analysis of existing workforce reports, summaries, and information gathered from chief health officials in 50 states and 6 territories, public health organizations, and federal agencies. Results indicate that the workforce consists of some 448...

Social capital, or a sense of partnership leading to shared goals, provides a means for addressing today's public health workforce challenges. This concept is particularly important in underserved rural areas, though efforts to intentionally generate social capital have been limited. Within the rural state of Kansas, the Kansas Public Health Leadership Institute (KPHLI) has implemented a social...

OBJECTIVE The legal environment may improve response willingness among local health department (LHD) workers. We examined whether 3 hypothetical legal protections influence LHD workers' self-reported response willingness for 4 emergency scenarios and whether specific demographic factors are associated with LHD workers' response willingness given these legal protections. METHODS Our 2011-2012 ...

Due to an increase in the need for allied health professionals, there is a growing interest to assess the allied health workforce and its employment needs. This is especially true in medically underserved rural areas where there is a critical shortage of allied health professionals. A survey was sent to allied health administrators across a variety of allied health disciplines working in Tennes...

sanitarians, and environmental health professionals and practitioners. The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official position of CDC. CAPT Mehran Massoudi is the associate director for science in the Scientific Education and Professional Development Program Office at CDC; he has been at CDC for 18 years working in various di...

There are health workforce imbalances in terms of deficits, shortages or inequitable distribution of workers in all countries (Celletti, et al., 2011; Frenk, et al., 2010). Together with the imperative to deliver more and more effective health services, these imbalances create an urgent need to scale up the number of human resources for health, to adapt the education and training of health prov...

The health crisis in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) presents enormous challenges to the public health workforce, which is ill equipped to respond. Since the fate of SSA is central to the health and well-being of all regions, a long-term effort is now required to strengthen the public health workforce in SSA. This will require major support from national governments and a wide variety of international...