The strength of associations between ultrasound measures of upper limb muscle morphology and isometric muscle strength: An exploratory study.

Introduction/aims: Assessing upper limb muscle strength is important for understanding health outcomes, such as daily function and mortality. Ultrasound (US) is increasingly used to evaluate muscle health, but the relationship between its measures of morphology and isometric strength has not been thoroughly explored in upper limb muscles. The aim of this study was to evaluate the associations between US morphological measures and isometric strength in functionally relevant upper limb muscles in healthy adults.

Top Training Needs of the Governmental Public Health Workforce.

Context: Workforce development in governmental public health has historically focused on discipline-specific skills. However, as the field of public health has evolved, crosscutting skills have become critical. The 2017 fielding of the Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey (PH WINS) provides a national benchmark for gaps in crosscutting skills in state and local health departments.

Considering Leaving, But Deciding to Stay: A Longitudinal Analysis of Intent to Leave in Public Health.

Context: Public health has been hit by the first wave of the "silver tsunami"-baby boomers retiring en masse. However, thousands of staff members say they are considering voluntarily leaving for other reasons as well.

Objective: To identify characteristics of staff who said they were planning on leaving in 2014 but stayed at their organizations through 2017.

The Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey (PH WINS 2017): An Expanded Perspective on the State Health Agency Workforce.

Context: Workforce surveillance efforts have long been called for in public health: the Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey (PH WINS) answers that call.

Objective: To characterize the state of the governmental public health workforce among State Health Agency-Central Office (SHA-CO) staff across the United States.

Design: The SHA leadership were contacted and invited to have their agency participate in PH WINS 2017 as a census-based fielding.