Conducting a Comprehensive Assessment of the Public Health Workforce: Lessons Learned and Opportunities for the Future.

J Public Health Manag Pract

Department of Health Policy and Management, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Published: November 2023

Indiana was one of the earliest states to conduct a comprehensive public health workforce assessment in preparation for the use of federal funds for infrastructure strengthening. Experiences from this assessment provide insights that may be useful to other public health agencies and partners. This brief summarizes key lessons and highlights opportunities for improved workforce assessments. For example, the lack of standardized job titles within local health departments (LHDs) can be mitigated by collecting the top 3 job tasks employees engage in daily and reassigning standardized titles based on nationally collected workforce data. This facilitates comparisons across LHD employees nationally. In addition, many employees felt their job tasks did not align well with the Foundational Public Health Services (FPHS) areas and capabilities, which contributed to the likely overestimation of effort. Further consideration of how to better align and/or integrate FPHS assessment within current practice is needed in addition to improved ways of assessing efforts toward FPHS.

Download full-text PDF

Source
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10664795PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PHH.0000000000001816DOI Listing

Publication Analysis

Top Keywords

public health
16
health workforce
8
job tasks
8
health
5
conducting comprehensive
4
assessment
4
comprehensive assessment
4
public
4
assessment public
4
workforce
4

Similar Publications

Effects of population aging on quality of life and disease burden: a population-based study.

Glob Health Res Policy

January 2025

Center for Public Health and Epidemic Preparedness and Response, Peking University, Haidian District, 38Th Xueyuan Road, Beijing, 100191, China.

Background: As population aging intensifies, it becomes increasingly important to elucidate the casual relationship between aging and changes in population health. Therefore, our study proposed to develop a systematic attribution framework to comprehensively evaluate the health impacts of population aging.

Methods: We used health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE) to measure quality of life and disability-adjusted life years (DALY) to quantify the burden of disease for the population of Guangzhou.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Feasibility and preliminary efficacy of a physical activity intervention in adults with lymphoma undergoing treatment.

Pilot Feasibility Stud

January 2025

Department of Internal Medicine - Cardiology, Virginia Commonwealth University, West Hospital 8th Floor, North Wing, Richmond, VA, 23298, USA.

Background: To determine the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of a 6-month tailored non-linear progressive physical activity intervention (PAI) for lymphoma patients undergoing chemotherapy.

Methods: Patients newly diagnosed with lymphoma (non-Hodgkin (NHL) or Hodgkin (HL)) were randomized into the PAI or healthy living intervention (HLI) control (2:1). Feasibility was assessed by examining accrual, adherence, and retention rates.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Patient centered medication treatment for opioid use disorder in rural Vermont: a qualitative study.

Addict Sci Clin Pract

January 2025

Center for Technology and Behavioral Health, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH, 03766, USA.

Background: Opioid-related fatal overdoses are occurring at historically high levels and increasing each year. Accessible social and financial support are imperative to the initiation and success of treatment for Opioid Use Disorder (OUD). Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) offer effective treatment but there are many more people with untreated OUD than receiving evidence-based medication.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Background: Undernutrition among children is a public health concern in most low and middle-income countries (LMICs) and is associated with poor child growth and development. Knowledge about child feeding practices is needed for nutritional policies and programs. Hence, this study assessed the status of minimum acceptable diet (MAD) and its associated factors among children aged 6-23 months in Afghanistan.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Time to neonatal mortality and its predictors among preterm neonates admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit in northern Ethiopia, 2023/2024: a retrospective cohort study.

Arch Public Health

January 2025

Department of Maternity and Neonatal Nursing, School of Nursing, College of Health Sciences, Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Aksum University, Aksum, Tigray, Ethiopia.

Background: A preterm neonate is defined by the World Health Organization as a child delivered before 37 weeks of gestation. In low- and middle-income countries, including Ethiopia, preterm-related complications are serious health problems due to increases in the mortality and morbidity of newborns and children under 5 years of age. The aim of this study was to assess the time to neonatal mortality and its predictors among preterm neonates admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit in northern Ethiopia, 2023/2024.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Want AI Summaries of new PubMed Abstracts delivered to your In-box?

Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!