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Leslie M Beitsch1, Matthew Stefanak, Carol Moehrle
1Center for Medicine and Public Health, Florida State University College of Medicine, Tallahassee, Florida (Dr Beitsch); Kent State University College of Public Health, Kent, Ohio (Mr Stefanak); Public Health-Idaho North Central District, Lewiston, Idaho (Ms Moehrle); Northern Nevada Public Health, Reno, Nevada (Mr Dick); and Public Health Foundation, Washington, District of Columbia (Mr Bialek).
Context:
Health departments nationally are critically understaffed and lack infrastructure support. By examining current staffing and allocations through a Foundational Public Health Services (FPHS) lens at the Northern Nevada Public Health (NNPH), there is an opportunity to make a strong case for greater investment if current dedicated full-time equivalents are inadequate and to guide which investments in public health workforce are prioritized.
Objective:
To assess the use of the Public Health Workforce Calculator (calculator) and other tools to identify and prioritize FPHS workforce needs in a field application.
Design:
Field application of the calculator in conjunction with the use of FPHS workforce capacity self-assessment tools.
Setting:
NNPH.
Participants:
NNPH and Public Health Foundation (PHF).
Intervention:
From June 2022 through April 2023, PHF collaborated with NNPH, serving Washoe County, to provide expertise and assistance as NNPH undertook an assessment of its workforce needs based upon the FPHS model.
Main Outcome Measures:
Comparison of the calculator output with FPHS workforce capacity self-assessment tools.
Results:
The calculator and the FPHS capacity self-assessment process yielded complementary FPHS workforce capacity gap data. The use of a structured and transparent process, coupled with additional tools that included prioritizing needs, provided a viable and sustainable process for public health workforce investment planning. NNPH successfully utilized the results to bolster a supplemental funding request and a state public health appropriation.
Conclusions:
The use of the calculator and an FPHS workforce capacity self-assessment in a facilitated and structured process such as that used by NNPH to identify staffing priorities may hold promise as an approach that could be used to support decision-making and justification for infrastructure resources when funding for public health increases in the future.
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