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Public Health Essential Service #8

Public Health Essential Service #8. Assure a Competent Public & Personal Health Care Workforce. Why do we want to know the Ten Essential PH Services?. Improve quality & performance Achieve better outcomes – improved health, less preventable deaths and disease.

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Public Health Essential Service #8

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  1. Public Health Essential Service #8 Assure a Competent Public & Personal Health Care Workforce

  2. Why do we want to know the TenEssential PH Services? • Improve quality & performance • Achieve better outcomes – improved health, less preventable deaths and disease. • Be more efficient with time and money • Receive national accreditation

  3. What is included in Essential Service # 8 ? • Education • Training • Credentialing • Life-long Learning • Workplace development programs • Partnerships with academia • Leadership development

  4. Execution Trumps Strategy

  5. Execution: Essential Service # 8 • Develop plans for education • Provide continuing education • Assess the number of PH and health care workforce • Recruit and sustain a diverse workforce • Focus on enhancing skills • Assure competency through increased knowledge and functioning

  6. Examples of how ISDH does Essential Service # 8 • Sponsor summits - • PH & Medicine Event; • Food protection regulations for LHD staff; • Ethics summit • Arrange forstudent internships • Support theLMS and distance learning • Partner with I.U. - Mid-America PH Training Center(MAPHTC) • Sponsor ISDH and LHD staff to UIC leadership institute (MARPHLI)

  7. More Education Activities at ISDH • Conduct Lunch and Learns– Leadership; Essential Services; Epi; Jake’s – 7 Habits of Leaders • Support attending national conferences • Tuition reimbursement for courses • Developing PHWorkforce Education State Plan • Conduct Preparedness exercises

  8. More Education Activities at ISDH • Resident rotation led by Dr. Erica Leazenby • St. Vincent, Community, St. Francis, I.U.

  9. Partnerships to enhance workforce education • IPHA; IEHA; IRHA; IPHCA annual conferences • I.U. and Purdue MPH Programs – ISDH adjunct faculty • I.U. School of Public & Environmental Affairs – ISDH mentor students • I.U. Bioethics Center – assist in planning summit

  10. What do we know about workforce development at the LHD level? • An IPHA survey indicated many LHDs try to plan for meeting their workforce education needs • LHD training needs continue to be • How to do community assessments • Media relations • Indoor air quality • Epidemiology • Information technology skills • How to use MEDLINE • HIPAA

  11. Competencies Execution of Essential Service #8

  12. Analytic/Assessment Skills • Defines a problem • Determines appropriate uses and limitations of both quantitative and qualitative data • Recognizes how the data illuminate ethical, political, scientific, economic, and overall public health issues

  13. Policy Development/Program Planning Skills • Collects, summarizes, and interprets information relevant to an issue • States policy options and writes clear and concise policy statements • Articulates the health, fiscal, administrative, legal, social, and political implications of each policy option • States the feasibility and expected outcomes of each policy option • Decides on the appropriate course of action • Develops a plan to implement policy, including goals, outcome and process objectives, and implementation steps • Translates policy into organizational plans, structures, and programs • Develops mechanisms to monitor and evaluate programs for their effectiveness and quality

  14. Communication Skills • Communicates effectively both in writing and orally, or in other ways • Solicits input from individuals and organizations • Advocates for public health programs and resources • Leads and participates in groups to address specific issues • Uses the media, advanced technologies, and community networks to communicate information • Listens to others in an unbiased manner, respects points of view of others, and promotes the expression of diverse opinions and perspectives (attitude)

  15. Cultural Competency Skills • Utilizes appropriate methods for interacting sensitively, effectively, and professionally with persons from diverse cultural, socioeconomic, educational, racial, ethnic and professional backgrounds, and persons of all ages and lifestyle preferences • Develops and adapts approaches to problems that take into account cultural differences • Understands the dynamic forces contributing to cultural diversity (attitude) • Understands the importance of a diverse public health workforce (attitude)

  16. Community Dimensions of Practice Skills • Identifies how public and private organizations operate within a community

  17. Basic Public Health Sciences Skills • Identifies the individual's and organization's responsibilities within the context of the Essential Public Health Services and core functions • Defines, assesses, and understands the health status of populations, determinants of health and illness, factors contributing to health promotion and disease prevention, and factors influencing the use of health services • Understands the historical development, structure, and interaction of public health and health care systems • Applies the basic public health sciences including behavioral and social sciences, biostatistics, epidemiology, environmental public health, and prevention of chronic and infectious diseases and injuries • Identifies and retrieves current relevant scientific evidence • Develops a lifelong commitment to rigorous critical thinking (attitude)

  18. Financial Planning and Management Skills • Develops and presents a budget • Manages programs within budget constraints • Applies budget processes • Develops strategies for determining budget priorities • Monitors program performance • Prepares proposals for funding from external sources • Applies basic human relations skills to the management of organizations, motivation of personnel, and resolution of conflicts

  19. Leadership and Systems Thinking Skills • Creates a culture of ethical standards within organizations and communities • Identifies internal and external issues that may impact delivery of essential public health services (i.e. strategic planning) • Promotes team and organizational learning • Contributes to development, implementation, and monitoring of organizational performance standards • Applies theory of organizational structures to professional practice

  20. Levels of Execution ESF #8The Academic Health Department • Level 1 – adjunct faculty/field experience • Level 2 – collaboration on mutually beneficial projects • Level 3 – shared/joint staff/faculty positions (teaching hospital model)

  21. What does your program do to carry out Essential Service # 8? Discussion

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