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Public Health Workforce
Impacting Lives Every Day: Public Health in the Classroom
A online resource package for teachers, guidance counselors and students designed to introduce high school students
to public health and its many careers.
...more on New Jersey's "Public Health in the Classroom."
Pathways to a Public Health Career (Minnesota Department of Health)
Are you looking for a profession with purpose? Do you want the work you do to benefit others, and add meaning to your life?
While many professionals desire to make a difference, public health professionals work every day to protect and improve the
health of people in their communities, and they do it by reaching many people at once.
Orientation to Public Health (NY/NJ Public Health Training Center)
"Orientation to Public Health" is a web-based course that provides learners with a basic understanding of public
health's mission and functions. Designed to orient newly hired support and technical staff to the field.
...more on the NY/NJ PHTC's "Orientation to Public Health."
New Jersey Learning Management Network (New Jersey Department of Health & Senior Services)
A one-stop, on-line learning system supporting workforce development for those involved with New Jersey's public health, safety
and emergency preparedness. The NJLMN is organized into Communities which provide access to programs that can serve you at
any stage of your professional development.
...more on the New Jersey Learning Management Network.
Pandemic Influenza
Pandemic flu is flu that causes a global outbreak, or pandemic, of serious illness that spreads easily from person to person...
...more from the CDC, including facts, preparedness, state/local planning checklists, and other resources.
The threat of an influenza pandemic is not as much a question of if,
but rather a question of when.
Ohio Pandemic Flu Operation Plan
For additional Pandemic Influenza information, planning resources and to access other state preparedness and response plans,
click on the PandemicFlu.gov icon below.
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Exploring Accreditation
The value and feasability of developing a voluntary national public health accreditation program is being seriously considered.
The Exploring Accreditation project will make recommendations on how such a program could be developed and implemented at
the state and local levels.
State Summaries on Performance Assessment and Accreditation: MLC Forum, May 2006
Presentation: PHLS Accreditation & Credentialing 2005
Presentation: NNPHI Accreditation Session @ APHA 2005
Operational Definition of a Local Health Agency
Over the last couple year's NACCHO has been working with its national partners to develop an operational definition of a local
health department. The hard work of several steering committees, expert panels and town hall meetings has resulted in the
shared understanding of what every community, no matter how large or small, can reasonably expect from their local health
department.
State Standards of Performance
Several states have developed standards for public health practice, performance and/or improvement of local health departments.
CDC's National PHPS Program
Presentation: NPHPS Quality Improvement Models 2004
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