Core Competencies in Injury and Violence Prevention
October 5, 2010
This document outlines the process used to develop the Core Competencies in Injury and Violence Prevention. In 2000, the Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research (SAVIR) and the State and Territorial Injury Prevention Directors Association (STIPDA) formed the National Training Initiative...
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NLM Literature Search on Recruitment and Retention 2007
October 2, 2010
In 2007, the National Library of Medicine conducted a literature search aimed at helping the Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice in its efforts to map the flow of individuals into and out of governmental public health agencies.
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NLM Literature Search on Recruitment and Retention 2004
October 2, 2010
In 2004, the National Library of Medicine conducted a literature search to help inform the public health community about strategies to address worker shortages. This document contains citations and abstracts for more than 200 research articles and projects on recruitment and retention efforts.
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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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Illinois Public Health Preparedness Center Competency Framework
September 21, 2010
The Illinois Public Health Preparedness Center (IPHPC) comprises of core and cross-cutting focal competencies, as well as bioterrorism and emergency readiness competencies. The competencies in this framework are consistent with the national competency formulations advanced by the Council on Linkages...
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Management Self Assessment for Health Department Staff
September 21, 2010
A state health department developed this tool to assess the skills and competencies of its managers.
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Guidelines for Assigning Competencies and Skill Levels to Courses
September 21, 2010
The TRAIN Course Provider Reference Guide (last updated in 2013) has information that can assist course providers with assigning the Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals, as well as Bioterrorism and Emergency Readiness Competencies to courses. The guide also shows course providers how to...
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Public Health Competencies Webcast by Kathy Miner
September 16, 2010
This "Core Competencies Webcast" presented by Kathy Miner, PhD (Emory Rollins School of Public Health) to the Council on Linkages Core Competencies Workgroup in February 2008 provides information about how one can go about developing competencies correctly.
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Survey for Schools of Public Health
September 15, 2010
This tool (created in 2001) was developed to help Schools of Public Health and other academic institutions assess the status and composition of their existing partnerships with health departments.
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Health Department Survey
September 15, 2010
Public health departments can use this survey instrument to assess the status and composition of their existing partnerships with academic institutions. (Last updated in 2000.)
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