The collection of articles on public health accreditation in the March issue of JPHMP provides new evidence on its value, impact, and health department experiences.
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The first known field application of the Public Health Workforce Calculator in conjunction with an FPHS workforce capacity self-assessment and a structured prioritization process in NNPH has showcased the value of these tools to inform a comprehensive workforce investment planning process.
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We need to build on lessons learned in developing and implementation of a Uniform Chart of Accounts to foster a post-pandemic public health finance infrastructure that will support a robust and accountable public health future.
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The “Infrastructure grant” is anticipated to result in substantial and long-lasting structural changes to public health systems, hopefully positioning those systems to better meet the critical challenges.
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Through examination of LHDs’ performance score in PHAB accreditation standards, we were able to demonstrate use of individual PHAB standards as an instrument to measure and compare LHDs’ performance, and support the existing evidence that accreditation is fostering LHDs’ quality improvement in public health systems for capacity to promote population health. In our article “Local Health Departments’ Characteristics and Their
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The Biden Administration’s announcement that they will spend $7.4 billion on the public health workforce is big news for the woefully underfunded, short-staffed, overstretched, and burned-out public health professionals working in our nation’s local, state, tribal, territorial (and even federal) health departments. There could be thousands of new hires in public health. While much appears temporary, Biden has laid out
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by Paul Kuehnert, DNP, RN, FAAN Strong public health departments are essential for healthy and safe communities. This simple truth—evident to all of us in the “public health choir” before the COVID-19 pandemic tore through our communities—should be evident to all community members and policymakers now. Unfortunately, I think it is not. To change what otherwise may default to a
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