Public Health Workforce Development Needs: A National Assessment of Executives' Perspectives.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Workforce development is one of the ten essential public health services. Recent studies have better characterized individual worker perceptions regarding workforce interests and needs, but gaps remain around workforce needs from program managers' perspectives. This study characterized management perspectives regarding subordinate's abilities and training needs and perceived challenges to recruitment and retention.

Methods

In 2017, the Directors Assessment of Workforce Needs Survey was sent to 574 managers at state health agencies across the U.S. Respondents were invited based on the positions they held (i.e., to be included, respondents had to be employed as managers and oversee specific program areas). In 2018, descriptive statistics were calculated, including

SUBMITTER: Leider JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8135090 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature