Professionalization of the public health workforce: scoping review and call to action.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The 'WHO-ASPHER Roadmap to Professionalizing the Public Health Workforce in the European Region' provides recommendations for strategic and systematic workforce planning around professionalization levers including: (i) competencies, (ii) training and education, (iii) formal organization, (iv) professional credentialing and (v) code of ethics and professional conduct as well as taxonomy and enumeration. It was based on a literature review till 2016. This scoping review aims to explore how the professionalization was documented in the literature between 2016 and 2022.

Methods

Following the Joanna Briggs Institute guidelines, we searched Medline via PubMed, Web of Science, ERIC via EBSCO and Google Scholar and included studies on professionalization levers. Four crit

SUBMITTER: Czabanowska K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10843938 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature