Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP
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J Public Health Manag Pract · May 2013
Implications of preparedness and response core competencies for public health.
Public health care practitioners and organizations are a part of community readiness for, response to, and recovery from emergencies and disasters of all kinds. Although response to health threats, particularly communicable disease outbreaks, have long been a part of public health practice, 2 advancements in preparedness, including the integration of public health into the broader community emergency response system and the clarification of exactly what knowledge, skills, and attitudes a public health professional brings to the response, have been made since 2001. This article presents the newly affirmed core competencies to be attained and maintained by the majority of the public health workforce and discusses some of the many ways in which these competencies influence practice, research, and education.
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J Public Health Manag Pract · May 2013
Advancing environmental and policy change through active living collaboratives: compositional and stakeholder engagement correlates of group effectiveness.
This study aims to evaluate compositional factors, including collaborative age and size, and community, policy, and political engagement activities that may influence collaboratives' effectiveness in advancing environmental improvements and policies for active living. ⋯ Active living collaboratives are translating the evidence on environmental and policy approaches to promote active living from research to practice. Investing in community and policy engagement activities may represent important levers for achieving structural and policy changes to the built environment.
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J Public Health Manag Pract · Jan 2013
Disparities in the severity of influenza illness: a descriptive study of hospitalized and nonhospitalized novel H1N1 influenza-positive patients in New York City: 2009-2010 influenza season.
To investigate the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and hospitalization for 2009 H1N1 influenza, independently of access to care and known risk factors for severe influenza illness, among New York City residents during the 2009-2010 influenza season. ⋯ This study suggests that individuals of lower SES were more vulnerable to severe illness during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. Additional research is needed to help guide interventions to protect this population during future influenza pandemics.
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J Public Health Manag Pract · Jan 2013
Educating the future public health workforce: do schools of public health teach students about the private sector?
Recent surveys indicate that approximately 40% of graduates from schools of public health are employed within the private sector or have an employer charged with regulating the private sector. These data suggest that schools of public health should provide curricular opportunities for their students--the future public health workforce--to learn about the relationship between the private sector and the public's health. ⋯ Schools of public health face a curricular gap, with relatively few course offerings that teach students about the relationship between the private sector and the public's health. By developing new courses or revising existing ones, schools of public health can expose the future public health workforce to the varied ways public health professionals interact with the private sector, and potentially influence students' career paths.
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J Public Health Manag Pract · Jan 2013
Public health emergency preparedness: lessons learned about monitoring of interventions from the National Association of County and City Health Official's survey of nonpharmaceutical interventions for pandemic H1N1.
We assessed local health departments' (LHDs') ability to provide data on nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) for the mitigation of 2009 H1N1 influenza during the pandemic response. ⋯ Many LHDs were unable to monitor implementation of NPI (recommended by LHD or not) within their community during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic. This gap makes it difficult to adjust recommendations or messaging during a public health emergency response. Public health preparedness could be improved by strengthening NPI monitoring capacity.