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Craig Tower1, Elizabeth Van Nostrand, Ranjita Misra
1Department of Environmental Health & Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland (Drs Tower and Barnett); Department of Health Policy and Management, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Dr Van Nostrand); Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia (Dr Misra); Mid-Atlantic Regional Public Health Training Center at University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Dr Van Nostrand); Mid-Atlantic Regional Public Health Training Center Community-Based Training Partner at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland (Drs Tower and Barnett); and Mid-Atlantic Regional Public Health Training Center Community-Based Training Partner at West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia (Dr Misra).
Public health workforce development is shifting to a holistic approach, focusing on collective efficacy. This strategy enhances both individual skills and group performance for better public health outcomes.
Area of Science:
- Public Health
- Adult Learning
- Organizational Development
Background:
- Public health workforce development has evolved over 30 years, moving from individual technical skills to holistic approaches emphasizing crosscutting capabilities.
- Current efforts often focus on individual workers rather than the workforce as a collective unit.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore a strategic adult learning approach to enhance public health workforce capabilities.
- To investigate the role of collective efficacy in improving both individual and group performance within the public health workforce.
Main Methods:
- Proposing implementation strategies to integrate collective efficacy building into existing workforce development initiatives.
- Utilizing principles from social cognitive theory and collective efficacy.
- Adopting evaluation measures from sports psychology and organizational development.
Main Results:
- A strategic adult learning approach can improve individual capabilities and collective workforce performance.
- Collective efficacy, the group's belief in its ability to succeed, is a key factor.
- Existing public health workforce development can be adjusted to foster collective efficacy.
Conclusions:
- Building collective efficacy in public health workforce development can link self-confidence to performance.
- Further research is needed to identify optimal methods for enhancing collective efficacy in public health settings.
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