Determining Essential Core Competencies for Job Positions (Archived Webinar)
June 22, 2017
This archived webinar focuses on determining essential core competencies for job positions within public health organizations. Key to a public health organization’s ability to successfully meet the health needs of its community is having staff whose competencies are well matched to the types of activities...
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How to Focus Your Training and Professional Development Efforts to Improve the Skills of Your Public Health Organization (2011 APHA Annual Meeting)
November 21, 2011
This presentation addresses the use of a quality improvement tool, the prioritization matrix, to identify workforce development needs. In this example, the relative importance of the Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals domains is considered in order to help public health organizations focus resources...
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Assessing and Building a Culture of Quality Improvement in Your Agency Presentation
July 12, 2011
These slides provide an overview of the culture of quality improvement (QI), the steps needed to build and change organizational culture, becoming aware of the six indicators of a culture, and how to rate an organization’s culture using a radar chart. These slides are excerpted from a presentation...
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Orange County Health Department in Florida Shows Benefits of Quality Improvement with Quality Journey
April 1, 2011
The Public Health Foundation (PHF) and the Orange County Health Department in Florida have worked together over many years to improve the quality of public health in Florida. The Orange County Health Department produced this document that explains their quality journey in "Implementing a Quality Management...
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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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