Problem Statement: National Association of City and County Health Officials proposes a policy for health workforce development. The policy attempts to answer what are the challenges faced in workforce development? And why we need workforce development plan? One of the fastest growing industries of the U.S is healthcare. With this what comes into the picture is health workforce. It is a critical component for functioning and performance of labor intensive healthcare system. Developing health workforce is an attempt to improve health outcomes. The foundation of a healthy community is a well-prepared workforce. Background: The National Association of County and City Health Officials represents local health departments that play a vital role …show more content…
Although the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act established the Prevention and Public Health Fund, the first guaranteed funding stream for public health, priorities at the local, state, and national levels are constantly changing, resulting in funding inconsistencies. State and local agencies face severe budget cuts and are being forced to lay off public health workers. Providing competitive wages remains a challenge that affects not only the existing workforce but the ability of agencies to recruit new workers to the public health field. Challenges in the area of education and training also exist. An estimated 80 percent of public health workers lack formal public health training, and only 22 percent of top local health department executives have graduate training in public …show more content…
All organizations need to be planning for the future. Current staff needs professional development efforts. They need programs that expose them to people and experiences that contribute to their professional growth. They need to be trained to increase their knowledge and skills. While the “half-life” of knowledge varies among the many disciplines, even service providers experience the fact that half of the work knowledge they currently possess will be unneeded in about four years. Therefore, it is incumbent upon leadership in any agency to bring that new knowledge into the agency. This permits employees to grow and change as the job itself changes. Organisations providing training will never stop determining an unprecedented number of people will or could retire now through the next few years. what knowledge is needed where. Or how to best share that knowledge within the agency. Or how to create a culture where sharing knowledge is expected (part of any performance management system) and rewarded. Therefore, the transition to the organization that provides trainingcan begin with a WDP than recognizes and designs for
The health care organization with which I am familiar and involved is Kaiser Permanente where I work as an Emergency Room Registered Nurse and later promoted to management. Kaiser Permanente was founded in 1945, is the nation’s largest not-for-profit health plan, serving 9.1 million members, with headquarters in Oakland, California. At Kaiser Permanente, physicians are responsible for medical decisions, continuously developing and refining medical practices to ensure that care is delivered in the most effective manner possible. Kaiser Permanente combines a nonprofit insurance plan with its own hospitals and clinics, is the kind of holistic health system that President Obama’s health care law encourages. It still operates in a half-dozen states from Maryland to Hawaii and is looking to expand...
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State and local public health departments throughout the country have the responsibility for improving health in workplaces, schools, and communities through identifying top health problems within society and developing a plan to improve. Barriers the public health system has encountered over the years include: changes in the overall health system that support cost containment and improved health, and an increase in the number of individuals with insurance coverage for direct preventive services; reduction of qualified public health professional and funding at all levels of government; increasing focus on accountability, with higher expectations for demonstrating a return on investment in terms of cost and health improvement (Trust, 2013). In the near future, health departments ...
A community can be defined as a group of people, who live, learn, work and play in an environment at a given time. (Yiu, 2012, p.213) There are many factors that may influence the community’s development and health status. These can include resources available, accessibility, transportation, safety, community needs etc… These influences may combine together to form community strengths and as well as community challenges or weaknesses. As a community health care nurse, it is significant for us to assess and identify these strengths and challenges within the community in order for us to intervene and provide the appropriate needed health care services for the community members. This individual scholarly paper will explore and focus on one challenge issue identified from our group community assessment.
Regardless of the best attempts of medical professionals and educators to increase the workforce over the past, shortages are anticipated in every health care profession. The estimated supply of workers fails to meet the need related with population growth and aging of the population. With the continuous necessity for medical services for the millions who are projected to sign up for Medicaid and the federal and state insurance exchanges, the labor force shortages could become devastating.
These consultants need training and development throughout the life of their career. The impacts of training and developing employees to enhance the individual and organizational human capital will be discu...
If the health of employees can help or hinder a company, then why do companies still have sick days? With the “on the go” lifestyles, how can we not question the health of employees and their families. Today we have high stress jobs, rush hour traffic, and demanding schedules. Being healthy and fit is the way to conquer tomorrow.
I have chosen Public Health as my career path because I have a passion for making a difference in people’s lives and helping others achieve their goals. Also, I chose healthcare as a career because health does not only focus on the physical aspects of wellness, but it applies to all areas of wellness, such as, intellectual, social, spiritual, financial, occupational, environmental and emotional wellness. Moreover, Public Health is a challenging, diverse and dynamic field. My philosophy of health is very simple, to prevent, improve and educate the lives of individuals, families, communities and the population. Besides, there is no safer way to touch people’s lives than through public
Because state and local public health programs are often funded at least in part with Federal dollars, accountability is often a key issue (“Ten Essential Public Health Services.” 2015). Public health programs therefore document progress towards positive change in health behavior or health status indicators (“Ten Essential Public Health Services.” 2015). Data such as these can be presented to policymakers to document the value or effectiveness of a program (“Ten Essential Public Health Services.” 2015). Those data can also be used for continued program planning and modification (“Ten Essential Public Health Services.” 2015). Policies have positive or negative influences on health. Examples of health policies include safety standards, which influence the incidence of injuries; tobacco regulations affect personal health; and safe city parks can affect the ability for people are active (California Department of Public Health “Strategic Plan”, 2013). It is a systematic process to utilize appropriate data, develop and track measurable health objectives, establish strategies and actions to guide the targeted improvements (California Department of Public Health “Strategic Plan”, 2013). The targeted strategies may be laws, codes, regulations and/or
By continually monitoring the health of a community we can diagnose and investigate causes of public health risk (Schneider, 2016). Once we assess and identify a public health risk, we move to the core function of policy development. At this stage the function of public health is to inform and educate our patient population. This function also includes mobilizing community partnerships, and core policy development. (Turnock, 2012).
To achieve vision 2030, health sector is a key pillar through provision of accessible, quality and relevant health services to have a healthy workforce. Increasing allocation of resources, improvement in health personnel and facilities, better health management are among the strides made. However, challenges still exist due to infrastructural constraints, inadequate human resources, increasing cost of medical care, financial constraints, HIV/AIDS Pandemic, increasing non communicable diseases and high poverty levels.
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Success of Knowledge Transfer in an organization is dependent on the efficient transfer and use of knowledge. Employees need specific skills and knowledge to effectively perform their functions.
What exactly is a Health Administrator? “Health administration/management or healthcare administration is the field relating to leadership, management, and administration of public health systems, health care systems, hospitals, and hospital networks. Health systems management or health care systems management describes the leadership and general management of hospitals, hospital networks, and/or health care systems” (Wikipedia).
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