OBJECTIVE Public health emergency planning includes a consideration of public health human resource requirements. We addressed the hypothetical question: How many public health physicians could Canada mobilize in the event of a public health emergency? METHODS We used the 2004 National Physician Survey (NPS) to estimate the number of public health physicians in Canada. Using weighting to acco...

Recent COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of increase in ability public health workforce to detect and respond threats. For timely implementation an adequate response mitigation measure, standardized sustainable capacity building programme for frontline is need hour. National Center Disease Control (NCDC), Ministry Health Family Welfare, partnership with U.S. Centers Prevention (C...

OBJECTIVE Renewed focus on public health has brought about considerable interest in workforce development among public health nutrition professionals in Canada. The present article describes a situational assessment of public health nutrition practice in Canada that will be used to guide future workforce development efforts. METHODS A situational assessment is a planning approach that conside...

How Do We Ensure the Quality of the Public Health Workforce? EDITORIAL Suggested citation for this article: Thacker SB. How do we ensure the quality of the public health workforce? Prev Chronic Dis [serial online] 2005 Apr [date cited]. Available brought unprecedented attention to public health in the United States. The national response to these events included a large infusion of resources in...

During the 20th century, the United States' public health workforce has been of sufficient interest to policy makers that regular efforts have been made to enumerate it. Limited enumeration is found as early as 1908; the last direct federal survey occurred in 1964. After 1964, workforce size was estimated. The ratio of public health workers to population reached an estimated 220/100,000 in 1980...

The American Medical Informatics Association 2001 Spring Congress brought together the public health and informatics communities to develop a national agenda for public health informatics. Discussions on funding and governance; architecture and infrastructure; standards and vocabulary; research, evaluation, and best practices; privacy, confidentiality, and security; and training and workforce r...

The AMIA 2001 Spring Congress brought together members of the the public health and informatics communities to develop a national agenda for public health informatics. Discussions of funding and governance; architecture and infrastructure; standards and vocabulary; research, evaluation, and best practices; privacy, confidentiality, and security; and training and workforce resulted in 74 recomme...

BACKGROUND Over the last two decades, concern has been expressed about the readiness of the public health workforce to adequately address the scientific, technological, social, political and economic challenges facing the field. A 1988 report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) served as a catalyst for the re-examination of the public health workforce. The IOM's call to increase the relevance ...

OBJECTIVE The progress in workforce planning in preventive youth health care (YHC) is hampered by a lack of data on the current workforce. This study aimed to enumerate the Dutch YHC workforce. To understand regional variations in workforce capacity we compared these with the workforce capacity and the number of children and indicators of YHC need per region. METHODS A national survey was con...