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Competitive Competencies
Unveiling Surveillance
Starr Professionalisms
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According to the Oxford Handbook of Public Health, it is the application of leadership characteristics to the cause of improving the health of a given population or community (Guest, Ricciardi, Kawachi, & Lang, 2013).
What is public health leadership?
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This list includes standardized attributes for leaders in the public health workforce, such as applying social justice and human rights principles when addressing community needs (Calhoun, Ramiah, Weist & Shortell, 2008).
What are the ASPH Core Competencies?
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Global health surveillance, public health surveillance work force of the future, and analytical challenges for emerging public health surveillance are 3 of 6 examples of these (CDC, 2012).
What are the concerns of CDC's Vision for Public Health Surveillance in the 21st Century?
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Form of professionalization calling for a technical basis, assertion of exclusive jurisdiction, links of both skill and jurisdiction to standards of training, and earning of public trust in services; important for any occupation wishing to exercise professional authority (Starr, 2009).
What is the standard model?
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According to the ASPH, they tend to have little field experience and instead focus on research and publishing (Starr, 2009).
Who are public health faculty?
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Enthusiam may be contagious but this important leadership characteristic is not. When other people do not share your vision, this characteristic will be helpful (Guest, Ricciardi, Kawachi, & Lang, 2013).
What is humility?
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Public health surveillance data is recognized as best used for this purpose (CDC, 2012).
What is the detection of epidemics and other health problems in a community?
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Bio-terror events have influenced public health development and authority by establishing a public health role in national security contributing to this (Starr, 2009).
What is an example of the expanding scope of public health?
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According to the Oxford Handbook of Public Health: conducting effective meetings, writing concise documents, and communicating both within an organization and with outside entities, are necessary at all levels, and examples of these (Guest, Ricciardi, Kawachi, & Lang, 2013).
What are leadership skills?
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These difficulties include budget constraints, lack of competitive wages, career interest by recent graduates, visibility of public health careers, and bureaucratic processes affected by broad, state-based employment practices (CDC, 2012).
What are barriers in recruiting public health workers?
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Despite IOM reports stressing the importance of public health training for physicians, nurses, and other health professionals, many still graduate without understanding prevention concepts and population health, leading to a complication of this (CDC, 2012).
What is the workforce capacity for surveillance?
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The NIH receives more than half of federal public health funds and three times more than the CDC, suggesting a greater focus on research and potentially posing a barrier to the delivery of these (Turnock, 2012).
What are public health community services in the US?
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