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CWORPH members have been collaborating for more than 10 years to conduct research that advances the field of public health workforce. Explore all of the publications they have produced together.
Retention of Community Health Workers in the Public Health Workforce: Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey, 2017 and 2021
To investigate the organizational factors contributing to the intent of community health workers (CHWs) to quit their jobs in local and state health departments in the United States
What Are Public Health Agencies Planning for Workforce Development? A Content Analysis of Workforce Development Plans of Accredited Public Health Departments
Recruiting and retaining public health employees and ensuring they have the skills necessary to respond are vital for meeting public health needs. As the first study examining health department (HD) workforce development plans (WDPs), this study presents gaps and strategies identified in WDPs across 201 accredited HDs (168 initial/33 reaccreditation plans).
Local Health Departments' Spending on the Foundational Capabilities
This study presents local health departments' expenditures on the foundational capabilities a uniform chart of accounts crosswalk.
The Landscape of US Undergraduate Public Health Education
This study examines the growth in undergraduate education in public health and assesses its potential implications on the public health field.
How Much Do We Spend? Creating Historical Estimates of Public Health Expenditures in the United States at the Federal, State, and Local Levels
This review outlines the challenges associated with estimating public health spending and explains the known sources of funding that are used to estimate and demonstrate the value of public health spending.
Assessing The Value Of 40 Years Of Local Public Expenditures On Health
This study estimates the impact of local public hospital spending and nonhospital health spending on all-cause mortality at the county level.
The Foundational Public Health Services as a Framework for Estimating Spending
This study begins to provide a cost estimation for the adoption of the Foundational Public Health Services Framework in every community to protect and improve population health.
The Who, What, How, and Why of Estimating Public Health Activity Spending
This commentary reviews the underlying principles of how public health expenditures estimates are generated and addresses what counts as public health spending, who counts it, how it is counted, and why it matters.
Machine-Learning Algorithms to Code Public Health Spending Accounts
This study compared the performances of machine-learning algorithms with manual classification of public health expenditures to determine if machines could provide a faster, cheaper alternative to manual classification.
Assessing the Public Health Activity Estimate from the National Health Expenditure Accounts: Why Public Health Expenditure Definitions Matter
This study explores how reported official estimates for governmental public health spending are overinflated by manually recoding expenditure data used to create the national Public Health Activity Estimate.
The Role of Salary in Recruiting Employees in State and Local Governmental Public Health: PH WINS 2017
This study examines the extent to which low salaries are a barrier for public health hiring.
Public Health Undergraduates in the Workforce: A Trickle, Soon a Wave?
This article provides perspectives on the growth of undergraduate public health education and its impact on the public health workforce,
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