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Competencies for Providing Essential Public Health Services

Essential Service #1: Monitor health status to identify community health problems
Essential Service #2: Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community
Essential Service #3: Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues
Essential Service #4: Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems
Essential Service #5: Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts
Essential Service #6: Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety
Essential Service #7: Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable
Essential Service #8: Assure a competent public health and personal health care workforce
Essential Service #9: Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services
Essential Service #10: Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems

Essential Service #1:
Monitor health status to identify community health problems

Analytic/Assessment Skills

  • Defines a problem
  • Determines appropriate uses and limitations of both quantitative and qualitative data
  • Selects and defines variables relevant to defined public health problems
  • Identifies relevant and appropriate data and information sources
  • Evaluates the integrity and comparability of data and identifies gaps in data sources
  • Applies ethical principles to the collection, maintenance, use, and dissemination of data and information
  • Makes relevant inferences from quantitative and qualitative data
  • Obtains and interprets information regarding risks and benefits to the community
  • Applies data collection processes, information technology applications, and computer systems storage/retrieval strategies
  • Recognizes how the data illuminate ethical, political, scientific, economic, and overall public health issues

Policy Development/Program Planning Skills

  • Collects, summarizes, and interprets information relevant to an issue
  • Decides on the appropriate course of action

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
  • Effectively presents accurate demographic, statistical, programmatic, and scientific information for professional and lay audiences
  • Listens to others in an unbiased manner, respects points of view of others, and promotes the expression of diverse opinions and perspectives (attitude)

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
  • Understands the dynamic forces contributing to cultural diversity (attitude)

Community Dimensions of Practice Skills

  • Develops, implements, and evaluates a community public health assessment

Basic Public Health Sciences Skills

  • 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
  • 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

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 · Manages information systems for collection, retrieval, and use of data for decision-making

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)

Essential Service #2:
Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community

Analytic/Assessment Skills

  • Defines a problem
  • Determines appropriate uses and limitations of both quantitative and qualitative data
  • Selects and defines variables relevant to defined public health problems
  • Identifies relevant and appropriate data and information sources
  • Evaluates the integrity and comparability of data and identifies gaps in data sources
  • Applies ethical principles to the collection, maintenance, use, and dissemination of data and information
  • Partners with communities to attach meaning to collected quantitative and qualitative data
  • Makes relevant inferences from quantitative and qualitative data
  • Obtains and interprets information regarding risks and benefits to the community
  • Recognizes how the data illuminate ethical, political, scientific, economic, and overall public health issues

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 mechanisms to monitor and evaluate programs for their effectiveness and quality

Communication Skills

  • Communicates effectively both in writing and orally, or in other ways · Solicits input from individuals and organizations
  • Leads and participates in groups to address specific issues
  • Uses the media, advanced technologies, and community networks to communicate information
  • Effectively presents accurate demographic, statistical, programmatic, and scientific information for professional and lay audiences
  • Listens to others in an unbiased manner, respects points of view of others, and promotes the expression of diverse opinions and perspectives (attitude)

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
  • Understands the dynamic forces contributing to cultural diversity (attitude)

Community Dimensions of Practice Skills

  • Accomplishes effective community engagements
  • Identifies community assets and available resources
  • Develops, implements, and evaluates a community public health assessment

Basic Public Health Sciences Skills
  • 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
  • Identifies and applies basic research methods used in public health
  • 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

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
  • Manages information systems for collection, retrieval, and use of data for decision-making

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)

Essential Service #3:
Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues

Analytic/Assessment Skills

  • Defines a problem
  • Obtains and interprets information regarding risks and benefits to the community
  • Recognizes how the data illuminate ethical, political, scientific, economic, and overall public health issues

Policy Development/Program Planning Skills

  • Collects, summarizes, and interprets information relevant to an issue
  • States policy options and writes clear and concise policy statements
  • Identifies, interprets, and implements public health laws, regulations, and policies related to specific programs
  • 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

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
  • Effectively presents accurate demographic, statistical, programmatic, and scientific information for professional and lay audiences
  • Listens to others in an unbiased manner, respects points of view of others, and promotes the expression of diverse opinions and perspectives (attitude)

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
  • Identifies the role of cultural, social, and behavioral factors in determining the delivery of public health services
  • 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)

Community Dimensions of Practice Skills
  • Establishes and maintains linkages with key stakeholders
  • Collaborates with community partners to promote the health of the population
  • Identifies how public and private organizations operate within a community
  • Accomplishes effective community engagements

Basic Public Health Sciences Skills

  • 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
  • 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

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
  • Negotiates and develops contracts and other documents for the provision of population-based services

Leadership and Systems Thinking Skills
  • Creates a culture of ethical standards within organizations and communities
  • Helps create key values and shared vision and uses these principles to guide action
  • Identifies internal and external issues that may impact delivery of essential public health services (i.e. strategic planning)
  • Facilitates collaboration with internal and external groups to ensure participation of key stakeholders
  • Uses the legal and political system to effect change

Essential Service #4:
Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems

Analytic/Assessment Skills

  • Defines a problem
  • Partners with communities to attach meaning to collected quantitative and qualitative data
  • Recognizes how the data illuminate ethical, political, scientific, economic, and overall public health issues

Policy Development/Program Planning Skills
  • Collects, summarizes, and interprets information relevant to an issue
  • States policy options and writes clear and concise policy statements
  • Identifies, interprets, and implements public health laws, regulations, and policies related to specific programs
  • 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

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
  • Effectively presents accurate demographic, statistical, programmatic, and scientific information for professional and lay audiences
  • Listens to others in an unbiased manner, respects points of view of others, and promotes the expression of diverse opinions and perspectives (attitude)

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
  • Identifies the role of cultural, social, and behavioral factors in determining the delivery of public health services
  • 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)

Community Dimensions of Practice Skills

  • Establishes and maintains linkages with key stakeholders
  • Utilizes leadership, team building, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills to build community partnerships
  • Collaborates with community partners to promote the health of the population
  • Idenitifies how public and private organizations operate within a community
  • Accomplishes effective community engagements
  • Identifies community assets and available resources

Basic Public Health Sciences Skills

  • 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
  • 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

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
  • Negotiates and develops contracts and other documents for the provision of population-based services

Leadership and Systems Thinking Skills
  • Creates a culture of ethical standards within organizations and communities
  • Helps create key values and shared vision and uses these principles to guide action
  • Identifies internal and external issues that may impact delivery of essential public health services (i.e. strategic planning)
  • Facilitates collaboration with internal and external groups to ensure participation of key stakeholders
  • Uses the legal and political system to effect change
  • Applies theory of organizational structures to professional practice

Essential Service #5:
Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts

Analytic/Assessment Skills

  • Defines a problem
  • Recognizes how the data illuminate ethical, political, scientific, economic, and overall public health issues

Policy Development/Program Planning Skills
  • Collects, summarizes, and interprets information relevant to an issue
  • States policy options and writes clear and concise policy statements
  • Identifies, interprets, and implements public health laws, regulations, and policies related to specific programs
  • Articulates the health, fiscal, administrative, legal, social, and political implications of each policy option
  • States the feasibility and expected outcomes of each policy option
  • Utilizes current techniques in decision analysis and health planning
  • 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
  • Prepares and implements emergency response plans
  • Develops mechanisms to monitor and evaluate programs for their effectiveness and quality

Communication Skills

  • Communicates effectively both in writing and orally, or in other ways
  • Solicits input from individuals and organizations
  • Leads and participates in groups to address specific issues
  • Uses the media, advanced technologies, and community networks to communicate information
  • Effectively presents accurate demographic, statistical, programmatic, and scientific information for professional and lay audiences
  • Listens to others in an unbiased manner, respects points of view of others, and promotes the expression of diverse opinions and perspectives (attitude)

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
  • Identifies the role of cultural, social, and behavioral factors in determining the delivery of public health services
  • 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)

Community Dimensions of Practice Skills

  • Establishes and maintains linkages with key stakeholders
  • Utilizes leadership, team building, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills to build community partnerships
  • Collaborates with community partners to promote the health of the population
  • Identifies how public and private organizations operate within a community
  • Accomplishes effective community engagements
  • Describes the role of government in the delivery of community health services

Basic Public Health Sciences Skills

  • 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
  • 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

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
  • Negotiates and develops contracts and other documents for the provision of population-based services
  • Conducts cost-effectiveness, cost-benefit, and cost utility analyses

Leadership and Systems Thinking Skills

  • Creates a culture of ethical standards within organizations and communities
  • Helps create key values and shared vision and uses these principles to guide action
  • Identifies internal and external issues that may impact delivery of essential public health services (i.e. strategic planning)
  • Facilitates collaboration with internal and external groups to ensure participation of key stakeholders
  • Contributes to development, implementation, and monitoring of organizational performance standards
  • Uses the legal and political system to effect change
  • Applies theory of organizational structures to professional practice

Essential Service #6:
Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety

Analytic/Assessment Skills

  • Defines a problem
  • Obtains and interprets information regarding risks and benefits to the community
  • Recognizes how the data illuminate ethical, political, scientific, economic, and overall public health issues

Policy Development/Program Planning Skills
  • Collects, summarizes, and interprets information relevant to an issue · Identifies, interprets, and implements public health laws, regulations, and policies related to specific programs
  • Decides on the appropriate course of action

Communication Skills

  • Communicates effectively both in writing and orally, or in other ways
  • Solicits input from individuals and organizations
  • Leads and participates in groups to address specific issues
  • Uses the media, advanced technologies, and community networks to communicate information
  • Effectively presents accurate demographic, statistical, programmatic, and scientific information for professional and lay audiences
  • Listens to others in an unbiased manner, respects points of view of others, and promotes the expression of diverse opinions and perspectives (attitude)

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
  • Understands the dynamic forces contributing to cultural diversity (attitude)
  • Understands the importance of a diverse public health workforce (attitude)

Community Dimensions of Practice Skills

  • Accomplishes effective community engagements
  • Describes the role of government in the delivery of community health services

Basic Public Health Sciences Skills

  • 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
  • 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

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
  • Negotiates and develops contracts and other documents for the provision of population-based services

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)
  • Contributes to development, implementation, and monitoring of organizational performance standards
  • Uses the legal and political system to effect change
  • Applies theory of organizational structures to professional practice

Essential Service #7:
Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable

Analytic/Assessment Skills

  • Defines a problem
  • Determines appropriate uses and limitations of both quantitative and qualitative data
  • Makes relevant inferences from quantitative and qualitative data
  • Recognizes how the data illuminate ethical, political, scientific, economic, and overall public health issues

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
  • Utilizes current techniques in decision analysis and health planning
  • 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
  • Prepares and implements emergency response plans
  • Develops mechanisms to monitor and evaluate programs for their effectiveness and quality

Communication Skills

  • Communicates effectively both in writing and orally, or in other ways
  • Solicits input from individuals and organizations
  • 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)

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
  • Identifies the role of cultural, social, and behavioral factors in determining the delivery of public health services
  • 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)

Community Dimensions of Practice Skills

  • Establishes and maintains linkages with key stakeholders
  • Utilizes leadership, team building, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills to build community partnerships
  • Collaborates with community partners to promote the health of the population
  • Identifies how public and private organizations operate within a community · Accomplishes effective community engagements
  • Identifies community assets and available resources
  • Describes the role of government in the delivery of community health services

Basic Public Health Sciences Skills
  • 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
  • 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

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

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)
  • Applies theory of organizational structures to professional practice

Essential Service #8:
Assure a competent public health and personal health care workforce

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

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

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)

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)

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

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)

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

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

Essential Service #9:
Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services

Analytic/Assessment Skills

  • Defines a problem
  • Determines appropriate uses and limitations of both quantitative and qualitative data
  • Identifies relevant and appropriate data and information sources
  • Evaluates the integrity and comparability of data and identifies gaps in data sources
  • Applies ethical principles to the collection, maintenance, use, and dissemination of data and information
  • Makes relevant inferences from quantitative and qualitative data
  • Recognizes how the data illuminate ethical, political, scientific, economic, and overall public health issues

Policy Development/Program Planning Skills
  • Collects, summarizes, and interprets information relevant to an issue
  • Identifies, interprets, and implements public health laws, regulations, and policies related to specific programs
  • Decides on the appropriate course of action
  • Develops mechanisms to monitor and evaluate programs for their effectiveness and quality

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
  • Effectively presents accurate demographic, statistical, programmatic, and scientific information for professional and lay audiences
  • Listens to others in an unbiased manner, respects points of view of others, and promotes the expression of diverse opinions and perspectives (attitude)

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
  • Identifies the role of cultural, social, and behavioral factors in determining the delivery of public health services
  • 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)

Community Dimensions of Practice Skills

  • Develops, implements, and evaluates a community public health assessment

Basic Public Health Sciences Skills
  • 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
  • Identifies and applies basic research methods used in public health
  • 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

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
  • Conducts cost-effectiveness, cost-benefit, and cost utility analyses

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)
  • Facilitates collaboration with internal and external groups to ensure participation of key stakeholders
  • Contributes to development, implementation, and monitoring of organizational performance standards

Essential Service #10:
Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems

Analytic/Assessment Skills

  • Defines a problem
  • Determines appropriate uses and limitations of both quantitative and qualitative data
  • Selects and defines variables relevant to defined public health problems
  • Identifies relevant and appropriate data and information sources
  • Evaluates the integrity and comparability of data and identifies gaps in data sources
  • Applies ethical principles to the collection, maintenance, use, and dissemination of data and information
  • Makes relevant inferences from quantitative and qualitative data
  • Recognizes how the data illuminate ethical, political, scientific, economic, and overall public health issues

Policy Development/Program Planning Skills
  • Collects, summarizes, and interprets information relevant to an issue
  • Decides on the appropriate course of action

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
  • Effectively presents accurate demographic, statistical, programmatic, and scientific information for professional and lay audiences
  • Listens to others in an unbiased manner, respects points of view of others, and promotes the expression of diverse opinions and perspectives (attitude)

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
  • Identifies the role of cultural, social, and behavioral factors in determining the delivery of public health services
  • Develops and adapts approaches to problems that take into account cultural differences
  • Understands the dynamic forces contributing to cultural diversity (attitude)

Community Dimensions of Practice Skills

  • Identifies how public and private organizations operate within a community

Basic Public Health Sciences Skills
  • 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
  • Identifies and applies basic research methods used in public health
  • 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
  • Identifies the limitations of research and the importance of observations and interrelationships

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

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)
  • Facilitates collaboration with internal and external groups to ensure participation of key stakeholders

 

 

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