The State of the US Governmental Public Health Workforce, 2014–2017

• Sellers, Katie ^[5] ; Leider, Jonathon P. ^[1] ; Gould, Elizabeth ^[2] ; Castrucci, Brian C. ^[5] ; Beck, Angela ^[2] ; Bogaert, Kyle ^[2] ; Coronado, Fátima ^[3] ; Shah, Gulzar ^[6] ; Yeager, Valerie ^[7] ; Beitsch, Leslie M. ^[4] ; Erwin, Paul C. ^[8]
  1. [1] University of Minnesota

     University of Minnesota

     City of Minneapolis, Estados Unidos

     
  2. [2] University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

     University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

     City of Ann Arbor, Estados Unidos

     
  3. [3] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

     Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

     Estados Unidos

     
  4. [4] Florida State University

     Florida State University

     Estados Unidos

     
  5. [5] Beaumont Foundation, Bethesda,
  6. [6] Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health
  7. [7] Indiana University
  8. [8] University of Alabama

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• Localización: American journal of public health, ISSN 0090-0036, Vol. 109, Nº. 5, 2019, págs. 674-680
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Public health workforce development efforts during the past 50 years have evolved from a focus on enumerating workers to comprehensive strategies that address workforce size and composition, training, recruitment and retention, effectiveness, and expected competencies in public health practice.We provide new perspectives on the public health workforce, using data from the Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey, the largest nationally representative survey of the governmental public health workforce in the United States.Five major thematic areas are explored: workforce diversity in a changing demographic environment; challenges of an aging workforce, including impending retirements and the need for succession planning; workers? salaries and challenges of recruiting new staff; the growth of undergraduate public health education and what this means for the future public health workforce; and workers? awareness and perceptions of national trends in the field. We discussed implications for policy and practice.