Commentary: developing and retaining a public health workforce for the 21st century: readiness for a paradigm shift to community-based public health.
The Partnership for the Public's Health work in supporting partnerships between local health departments and community-based organizations has offered important insights into the difficulties of changing public health practice to a more community-based model. Keys to these difficulties are workforce issues: availability, appropriateness of initial training, recruitment, retention, and issues of continuing education. These challenges and some positive examples are discussed.
Amodeo
Adele R
AR
Partnership for the Public's Health/Public Health Institute, 555 12th Street, 10th Floor, Oakland, CA 94607-4046, USA. aamodeo@partnershipph.org
D002140:California; D018672:Community Health Planning; D004651:Employment; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D009111:Local Government; D015969:National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, U.S., Health and Medicine Division; D011361:Professional Competence; D016730:Program Development; D011634:Public Health / Q000193:education*; D011635:Public Health Administration / Q000592:standards; D012922:Social Change; D013192:Staff Development; D014481:United States; D000078329:Workforce