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Public health competences through the lens of the COVID‐19 pandemic: what matters for health workforce preparedness for global health emergencies

The COVID‐19 pandemic is raising new questions on public health competences and leadership and on health workforce preparedness for global public health emergencies. The present commentary aims to highlight demand and opportunities for innovation through the disruptions caused by the COVID‐19 crisis...

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Autores principales: Czabanowska, Katarzyna, Kuhlmann, Ellen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8013956/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33598987
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hpm.3131
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description The COVID‐19 pandemic is raising new questions on public health competences and leadership and on health workforce preparedness for global public health emergencies. The present commentary aims to highlight demand and opportunities for innovation through the disruptions caused by the COVID‐19 crisis. We review the public health competency framework recently launched by WHO and ASPHER through the lens of COVID‐19. The framework provides guidance for aligning public health and global health competences across sectors and professional groups. Five critical competency areas can be identified in relation to public health emergencies: (1) flexibility, adaptation, motivation, communication, (2) research, analytical sensitivity, ethics, diversity, (3) epidemiology, (4) preparedness and (5) employability. However, this may not be enough. New models of public health leadership and changes in the health workforce are needed, which transform the silos of professions and policy. Such transformations would include learning, working, leading and governing differently and must stretch far beyond the public health workforce. To achieve transformative capacity, critical public health competences must be considered for all healthcare workers on all levels of policymaking, thus becoming the ‘heart’ of health workforce resilience and pandemic preparedness.
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spelling pubmed-80139562021-04-01 Public health competences through the lens of the COVID‐19 pandemic: what matters for health workforce preparedness for global health emergencies Czabanowska, Katarzyna Kuhlmann, Ellen Int J Health Plann Manage Perspectives The COVID‐19 pandemic is raising new questions on public health competences and leadership and on health workforce preparedness for global public health emergencies. The present commentary aims to highlight demand and opportunities for innovation through the disruptions caused by the COVID‐19 crisis. We review the public health competency framework recently launched by WHO and ASPHER through the lens of COVID‐19. The framework provides guidance for aligning public health and global health competences across sectors and professional groups. Five critical competency areas can be identified in relation to public health emergencies: (1) flexibility, adaptation, motivation, communication, (2) research, analytical sensitivity, ethics, diversity, (3) epidemiology, (4) preparedness and (5) employability. However, this may not be enough. New models of public health leadership and changes in the health workforce are needed, which transform the silos of professions and policy. Such transformations would include learning, working, leading and governing differently and must stretch far beyond the public health workforce. To achieve transformative capacity, critical public health competences must be considered for all healthcare workers on all levels of policymaking, thus becoming the ‘heart’ of health workforce resilience and pandemic preparedness. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-02-17 2021-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8013956/ /pubmed/33598987 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hpm.3131 Text en © 2021 The Authors. The International Journal of Health Planning and Management published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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