Generation Y, shifting funding structures, and health care reform: reconceiving the public health paradigm through social work.
Public health agencies are facing a convergence of forces that require a reexamination of the existing paradigm. The need to replace an aging workforce with a new generation that possesses a different worldview, in the context of budget austerity, will be challenging. In addition, the uncertainty of health care reform poses a challenge for public health leadership. This "perfect storm" provides the opportunity for the social work paradigm to come in and fill the void.
a City of Milwaukee Health Department and Zilber School of Public Health , University of Wisconsin Milwaukee , Milwaukee , Wisconsin , USA.
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Maureen P
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D002017:Budgets; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006801:Humans; D016901:Intergenerational Relations; D007857:Leadership; D010559:Personnel Management; D011635:Public Health Administration / Q000191:economics; D012947:Social Work; D014481:United States