Building Public Health Workforce Capacity: Longer-Term Effectiveness of a Capacity Building Intervention to Improve Community-Based Public Health Prevention Work.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

There is an urgent need to build capacity among existing and incoming public health workers to enhance community-based work focused on prevention and health promotion. Public Health Essentials, a cohort-based facilitated asynchronous online capacity building intervention, was designed to build public health workers' strategic skills and professional confidence. Earlier research reported on the short-term learning outcomes of the intervention; in this paper, the authors report on results from a longer-term outcomes evaluation, including skill retention, skill application, and possible indicators of workforce retention and community health improvement.

Methods

A sequential mixed-methods research design was used to assess and explore longer-term outcomes among a sa

SUBMITTER: Leong D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11426069 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature