PMID- 29324566
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20210222
LR  - 20210222
IS  - 1550-5022 (Electronic)
IS  - 1078-4659 (Linking)
VI  - 26
IP  - 1
DP  - 2020 Jan/Feb
TI  - Maintaining a Competent Public Health Workforce: Lessons Learned From Experiences 
      With Public Health Accreditation Domain 8 Standards and Measures.
PG  - 57-66
LID - 10.1097/PHH.0000000000000750 [doi]
AB  - CONTEXT: Public health accreditation is an ongoing national movement to improve 
      the quality of public health departments and the public health system in the 
      United States; however, calls have been made for more evidence regarding best 
      practices in the accreditation process. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this work is to 
      provide evidence about best practices in the accreditation process, specifically 
      within the workforce development domain. It is the first in-depth investigation 
      into workforce development using data collected by Public Health Accreditation 
      Board (PHAB). DESIGN: Using deidentified accreditation application data from 
      PHAB, this study employs a mixed-methods approach to examining practices, lessons 
      learned, challenges, and strategies pertaining to workforce development planning 
      for Domain 8. SETTING: United States. PARTICIPANTS: US state (n = 19) and local 
      health departments (n = 115). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Public Health Accreditation 
      Board assessment scores for the workforce measures and the relationship between 
      the health department's approach to meeting a PHAB measure criteria and the PHAB 
      assessment score. RESULTS: Of the 9 different approaches identified as ways of 
      encouraging the development of a sufficient number of qualified public health 
      workers (version 1, measure 8.1.1), only 1 approach (local health department 
      internship programs with schools of public health; B = 0.25, P < .03) was 
      significantly related to higher scores. An opportunity for improvement identified 
      for measure 8.2.1 was that plans missing a clear identification of the gap 
      between current staff competencies and staff needs were associated with a 
      0.88-point decrease in the 4-point score (P < .001). CONCLUSIONS: Findings 
      suggest that there are approaches adopted for meeting PHAB domain 8 measures that 
      will impact the overall conformance assessment and score of a health department 
      pursuing accreditation. There are several opportunities for improvement that 
      health departments might consider when planning for accreditation or assessing 
      their activities.
FAU - Yeager, Valerie A
AU  - Yeager VA
AD  - Department of Health Policy and Management, Indiana University Fairbanks School 
      of Public Health, Indianapolis, Indiana (Dr Yeager); Department of Global Health 
      Management & Policy, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical 
      Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana (Ms Wharton); and Behavioral Sciences and Social 
      Medicine, Florida State University College of Medicine, Tallahassee, Florida (Dr 
      Beitsch).
FAU - Wharton, M Kristina
AU  - Wharton MK
FAU - Beitsch, Leslie M
AU  - Beitsch LM
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - J Public Health Manag Pract
JT  - Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP
JID - 9505213
MH  - Accreditation/methods/*standards
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - Health Workforce/*standards/trends
MH  - Humans
MH  - Quality Improvement
MH  - *Reference Standards
MH  - United States
EDAT- 2018/01/13 06:00
MHDA- 2021/02/23 06:00
CRDT- 2018/01/12 06:00
PHST- 2018/01/13 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/02/23 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2018/01/12 06:00 [entrez]
AID - 00124784-202001000-00011 [pii]
AID - 10.1097/PHH.0000000000000750 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Public Health Manag Pract. 2020 Jan/Feb;26(1):57-66. doi: 
      10.1097/PHH.0000000000000750.