SynthesisFrontiers in public health2020
No Two Workforces Are the Same: A Systematic Review of Enumerations and Definitions of Public Health Workforces.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Training needs assessment tools for the public health workforce at an institutional and individual level: a review.European journal of public health · 2024Pooled it
- A Systematic Review on Professional Regulation and Credentialing of Public Health Workforce.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
- Optimizing Georgia's public health workforce: a study on demographics, engagement, and capacity building.Human resources for health · 2026Article
- Quantifying the Public Health Workforce for Hawai'i: Current Data, Measurement Complexities, and Conceptual Frameworks for Next Steps.Hawai'i journal of health & social welfare · 2025Review
- Insights from the front line: uplifting stories of the COVID-19 pandemic through the eyes of the public health workforce in Iowa.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Professionalization of the public health workforce: scoping review and call to action.European journal of public health · 2024Article
- Factors related to the resignation and migration of physicians in public health administration agencies using nationwide survey data in Japan.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Developing a capacity building training model for public health managers of low and middle income countries.PloS one · 2023Article
- Multi-, Inter-, and Transdisciplinarity within the Public Health Workforce: A Scoping Review to Assess Definitions and Applications of Concepts.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Factors Associated with Intention of Serbian Public Health Workers to Leave the Job: A Cross-Sectional, Population-Based Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Labour market competition for public health graduates in the United States: A comparison of workforce taxonomies with job postings before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.The International journal of health planning and management · 2021Article
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Abstract
The delivery and coordination of public health functions is essential to national and global health, however, there are considerable problems in defining the people who work in public health, as well as estimating their number. Therefore, the aim of this systematic review was to identify and explore research which has defined and enumerated public health workforces. In particular, how were such workforces defined? Who was included in these workforces? And how did researchers make judgments about the size of a workforce? In this systematic review, we identified 82 publications which enumerated a public health workforce between 2000 and November 2018. Most workforce definitions were unique and study-specific and included workers based on their occupation or their place of work. Common occupations included public health nurses and physicians, epidemiologists, and community health workers. National workforces varied by size, with the United States and Switzerland having the largest public health workforces per-capita, although definitions used varied substantially. Normative assessments (e.g., assessments of ideal workforce size) were informed through opinion, benchmarks or "service-target" models. There are very few regular, consistent enumerations within countries, and fewer still which capture a substantial proportion of the public heath workforce. Assessing the size of the public health workforce is often overlooked and would be aided by fit-for-purpose data, alignment of occupations and functions to international standards, and transparency in normative methods.
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