NPHPS Story From the Field: Cherokee Nation
May 31, 2012
Cherokee Nation used the combined results from the National Public Health Performance Standards (NPHPS) state public health system assessment and tribal public health assessment to guide its public health activities and initiatives. Based on the assessment results, they found they wanted to improve...
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Tracking EPHS to Improve Data Collection and Measure Accountability
May 24, 2011
The Jo Daviess County Board of Health (Board), in coordination with the Jo Daviess County Health Department, developed an electronic reporting system for the systematic collection and documentation of public health activities. In March 2008, the Board completed a National Public Health Performance...
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Competencies for Public Health Workers: A Collection of Competency Sets of Public Health-Related Occupations and Professions
September 23, 2010
Compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2001, this large collection of competencies sets will help you find discipline-specific competencies sets for numerous public health-related occupations and professions.
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JPHMP Special Issue on Quality Improvement (Jan/Feb 2010)
September 20, 2010
The Journal of Public Health Management and Practice (JPHMP) January/February 2010 Special Edition on Quality Improvement features the Public Health Foundation's (PHF) QI Experts Les Beitsch, John W. Moran, and William Riley as guest editors as well as authors of articles such as “Quality Improvement...
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The New Look in Public Health Practice - Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals
September 16, 2010
"Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals: The New Look in Public Health Practice" is a presentation prepared for the Texas Public Health Training Center in 2002. It describes what the Core Competencies are, how they were developed, and how they relate to other workforce development initiatives....
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Developing a Public Health Research & Applications Agenda: Tools for the 21st Century
September 16, 2010
In 1998, the Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice (Council on Linkages) began developing a plan that could lead to a national public health research agenda. Subsequently, a Council on Linkages ad hoc committee developed a framework using both Healthy People 2010 objectives...
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Core Competencies Tools You Can Use
September 11, 2010
This is a listing of tools and resources that can be used to assist individual public health workers, and public health organizations with using the Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals to strengthen workforce development efforts. These tools will also help public health practice and academic...
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Healthy People 2010 Toolkit
September 10, 2010
The Healthy People 2010 Toolkit provides guidance, technical tools, and resources to help states, territories, and tribes develop and promote successful Healthy People 2010 plans and to prepare for 2015 or 2020 plans. It can also serve as a resource for communities and other entities embarking on similar...
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Competency to Curriculum Toolkit
September 8, 2010
The "Competency to Curriculum Toolkit" was published in March 2008, following extensive work by Kristine Gebbie, DrPH, RN and others. The toolkit can help describe and integrate core and discipline-specific competencies into health professions and continuing education training programs.
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Crosswalk of the 2010 Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals and the Essential Public Health Services
September 6, 2010
The Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals (Core Competencies) are a consensus set of foundational skills for the broad practice of public health, as defined by the 10 Essential Public Health Services (Essential Services). To ensure that the Core Competencies help build the skills necessary...
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