Developing public health competency statements and frameworks: a scoping review and thematic analysis of approaches.

ABSTRACT: Competencies ensure public health students and professionals have the necessary knowledge, skills, values, and behaviours to do their jobs effectively. Public health is a dynamic and complex field requiring robust competency statements and frameworks that are regularly renewed. Many countries have public health competencies, but there has been no evidence synthesis on how these are developed. Our research aim was to synthesize the extent and nature of the literature on approaches and best practices for competencies statement and framework development in the context of public health, including identifying the relevant literature on approaches for developing competency statements and frameworks for public health students and professionals using a scoping review; and, synthesizing and describ

SUBMITTER: MacKay M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10644570 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature