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Enumeration and composition of the public health workforce: Challenges and strategies

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  • Sumaya, C.V.

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The field of public health needs a comprehensive classification data system that provides a better assessment of the size and composition of its workforce. Such a data system is necessary for understanding the capacity, trend projections, and policy development critical to the future workforce. Previous enumeration and composition studies on the public health workforce have been helpful, but the methodology used needs further improvements in standardization, specificity, data storage, and data availability. Resolving this issue should follow a consensus-based course of action that includes public and private stakeholders at the national, state, and local level. This prime issue should be addressed now, particularly in the current environment of comprehensive health care reform.

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  • Sumaya, C.V., 2012. "Enumeration and composition of the public health workforce: Challenges and strategies," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 102(3), pages 469-474.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2011.300388_0
    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300388
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    1. Santric Milicevic, Milena & Vasic, Milena & Edwards, Matt & Sanchez, Cristina & Fellows, John, 2018. "Strengthening the public health workforce: An estimation of the long-term requirements for public health specialists in Serbia," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 122(6), pages 674-680.
    2. Isaac Michaels & Sylvia Pirani & Molly Fleming & Mayela M. Arana & Emily D’Angelo & Cristina Dyer-Drobnack & Margaret DiManno & Sarah Ravenhall & Christian T. Gloria, 2022. "Enumeration of the Public Health Workforce in New York State: Workforce Changes in the Wake of COVID-19," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(20), pages 1-14, October.

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