Chat with AIExam 18: The Public Health Workforce
The academic core of a public health master's (MPH) degree program, which is the most common type of public health degree, includes courses in what five areas?
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VerifiedThe five areas are:
-Biostatistics
-Epidemiology
-Environmental health sciences
-Health services administration/policy
-Social and behavioral sciences
What four main categories can public health occupations be grouped into and what do these categories provide?
(37) VerifiedThe four main categories are management and leadership; professional and scientific; technical and outreach; and support services.
The workforce taxonomy provides a mechanism for standardizing the classification of public health occupations providing a framework for ensuring collection of a set of minimum data elements on all workers in the public health workforce.
Public health workers can be found in a wide variety of job settings in both public and private sectors. What are the four main settings for employment of public health care workers and describe each.
(29) VerifiedGovernmental public health: the core public health workforce employed in governmental settings and federal agencies
Nongovernmental public health: settings beyond governmental public health agencies; for example, school districts and individual schools (public, private, parochial)
Hospitals and health care organizations: staff-model and other health maintenance organizations employing public health professionals
Occupational health: subspecialty of public health practice that may take workers into almost any other field as a part of the organization's infrastructure
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