The NJLMN is group of Course Provider Communities and a web-based resource for national, state and local agencies to distribute, manage and track training and education information among those involved with New Jersey's Public Health, Safety and Emergency Preparedness.
The NYLearnsPH.com Learning Management System (or L-M-S) is a web-based tool designed to facilitate the registration and tracking of learners in competency-based courses for staff in state, local public health and allied health agencies throughout New York.
IOM Committee on Assuring the Health of the Public in the 21st Century
Summary
The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century reviews the nation's public health capabilities and presents a comprehensive framework for how the government public health agencies, working with multiple partners from the public and private sectors as an intersectoral public health system, can better assure the health of communities by: adopting a population health approach that considers the multiple determinants of health; strengthening the governmental public health infrastructure, the backbone of the public health system; building a new generation of intersectoral partnerships; requiring accountability from and among all sectors of the public health system; making evidence the foundation of decision-making; and enhancing and facilitating communication within the public health system.
Kristine Gebbie, Linda Rosenstock, and Lyla M. Hernandez, Editors
Summary
This IOM report examines the education of public health professionals, who are an essential component of the public health workforce. Report recommendations range from establishing partnerships between schools of public health and other academic disciplines, local and state health departments and community organizations, to calling for the addition of public health training to medical and nursing school curricula and increasing federal funding for public health research.
The Guide to Community Preventive Services serves as a filter for scientific literature on specific health problems that can be large, inconsistent, uneven in quality, and even inaccessible. The Community Guide summarizes what is known about the effectiveness, economic efficiency, and feasibility of interventions to promote community health and prevent disease. The Task Force on Community Preventive Services makes recommendations for the use of various interventions based on the evidence gathered in the rigorous and systematic scientific reviews of published studies conducted by the review teams of the Community Guide.
Healthy People 2010 provides a framework for prevention for the Nation. It is a statement of national health objectives designed to identify the most significant preventable threats to health and to establish national goals to reduce these threats.
The Quad Council of Public Health Nursing Organizations
Summary
The Quad Council of Public Health Nursing Organizations is an alliance of the four national nursing organizations that address public health nursing issues: the Association of Community Health Nurse Educators (ACHNE), the American Nurses Association's Congress on Nursing Practice and Economics (ANA), the American Public Health Association-Public Health Nursing Section (APHA), and the Association of State and Territorial Directors of Nursing (ASTDN.) Prompted in part by work on educating the public health workforce being done under the leadership of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the Quad Council developed a set of national public health nursing competencies.
These competencies represent a national effort undertaken between August 2004 and August 2006 by 332 members of the academic and practice communities under the jurisdiction of the ASPH Education Committee. These competencies are aimed at providing a baseline overview of the knowledge,
skills, and other attributes expected of emerging public health professionals. The competencies are anticipated to serve as a useful guide for faculty to include, as appropriate, relevant content in their existing
courses; as well as for MPH students to seek opportunities to comprehensively update their understanding.
The New York State Department of Health, in conjunction with the New York-New Jersey Public Health Training Center, convened the Public Health Workforce Task Force in July 2005 to assess and address the public health workforce challenges in New York State. The Task Force includes representatives from the state and local health departments, the state's public health schools and programs and statewide health care professional organizations. The "Roadmap" report uses national data, work done in the state and recommendations from the Task Force at two meetings and subsequent conference calls held in the summer and fall of 2005 to propose priority actions for how NYS can address public health workforce development.
The National Center for Cultural Competence is a federally and privately funded program housed at the Georgetown University Medical Center. It's mission is to increase the capacity of health care and mental health programs to design, implement, and evaluate culturally and linguistically competent service delivery systems.
The Public Health Foundation (PHF) is dedicated to achieving healthy communities through research, training, and technical assistance. For more than 35 years, this national, non-profit organization has been creating new information and helping health agencies and other community health organizations connect to and more effectively use information to manage and improve performance, understand and use data, and strengthen the workforce.
The Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals is a set of skills, knowledge, and attitudes necessary for the broad practice of public health. The list was adopted by the Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice on April 11, 2001, after a lengthy review process that involved more than 1,000 public health professionals.
The Core Competencies can help:
course providers develop and evaluate competency-based training content and curricula; learners assess and meet their training needs; practice organizations craft job descriptions, implement staff performance reviews, and assess knowledge and skill gaps of individual employees or of entire organizations; and public health field develop discipline-specific competencies.
The Essential Public Health Services provide the fundamental framework for the National Public Health Performance Standards Program instruments, by describing the public health activities that should be undertaken in all communities. The Essential Services provide a working definition of public health and a guiding framework for the responsibilities of local public health systems.
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