Public health human resources: a comparative analysis of policy documents in two Canadian provinces

The crucial problem of Health Human Resources currently facing is the number, distribution, and quality of health workers. Therefore, it is necessary to take concrete steps in addressing the challenges of this problem by meeting the availability of quality Health Human Resources according to needs, distributed fairly and evenly, and utilized efficiently and effectively. The focus of this research is how the planning of needs, realization and optimization of health human resources at the UPT Puskesmas in Blitar district. This type of research is quantitative qualitative with a case study approach. The results of this study illustrate that in running the public health center program still varies Adequacy of availability of health human resources that are less than ideal, both strategic and non-medical personnel. The planning mechanism for health human resource needs is carried out periodically once a year and used as a proposal report to the Health Office. Development planning still has obstacles due to lack of understanding of the manager program and there is no standard format yet. As an effort to optimize health human resources at the UPT Puskesmas, efforts were made to maximize the existing health human resources by giving multiple assignments and several strategies carried out by the head of the UPT Puskesmas in Blitar district. The realization of the planning for calculating the need for health Human Resources made annually from the UPT Puskesmas as a report to the Health Office has been realized, although not yet fully.

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The epidemiological impact of the Canadian COVID Alert App

10.1101/2022.01.04.21268588 ◽

2022 ◽

Author(s):

Shuo Sun ◽

Mairead Shaw ◽

Erica EM Moodie ◽

Derek Ruths

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Comparative Analysis ◽

Upper Bound ◽

Newfoundland And Labrador ◽

Case Fatality ◽

Transmission Chain ◽

Canadian Provinces ◽

Epidemiological Impact ◽

Effective Public Health ◽

Parameter Values

We analyzed the effectiveness of the Canadian COVID Alert app on reducing COVID-19 infections and deaths due to the COVID-19 virus using two separate, but complementary approaches, were taken. First, we undertook a comparative study to assess how the adoption and usage of the COVID Alert app compared to those of similar apps deployed in other regions. Next, we used data from the COVID Alert server and a range of plausible parameter values to estimate the numbers of infections and deaths averted in Canada using a model that combines information on number of notifications, secondary attack rate, expected fraction of transmissions that could be prevented, quarantine effectiveness, and expected size of the full transmission chain in the absence of exposure notification. The comparative analysis revealed that the COVID Alert app had among the lowest adoption levels among apps that reported usage. Our model indicates that use of the COVID Alert app averted between 6,284 and 10,894 infections across the six Canadian provinces where app usage was highest during the March - July 2021 period. This range is equivalent to 1.6%-2.9% of the total recorded infections across Canada in that time. Using province-specific case fatality rates, 57-101 deaths were averted during the same period. The number of cases and deaths averted was greatest in Ontario, whereas the proportion of cases and death averted was greatest in Newfoundland and Labrador. App impact measures were reported so rarely and so inconsistently by other countries that the relative assessment of impact is inconclusive. While the nationwide rates are low, provinces with widespread adoption of the app showed high ratios of averted cases and deaths (upper bound was greater than 60% of averted cases). Our findings suggest that the COVID Alert app, when adopted at sufficient levels, can be an effective public health tool for combatting a pandemic such as COVID-19.

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Letter to the Editor - Who benefits from the professionalization of health promotion?

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada ◽

10.24095/hpcdp.37.1.04 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 37 (1) ◽

pp. 32-32

Author(s):

J. Ross Graham

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Health Promotion ◽

Human Resources ◽

Health Agency ◽

Task Group ◽

Health Human Resources ◽

The Public ◽

Current Health ◽

Joint Task ◽

Literature Reviews

In 2007, Health Promotion Ontario (HPO) began working to advance the “profession” of health promotion (HP) in Canada through development of national competencies for health promoters. Their work was continued by the Pan-Canadian Network for Health Promoter Competencies (“the Network”). Funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada, the Network aimed to address (1) the recommendation made by the Canadian Joint Task Group on Public Health Human Resources for function specific competencies (including “HP Specialists”); and (2) the marginalization health promoters face in practice. The current health promoter competencies were released in November 2015, following a series of literature reviews and practitioner consultations.

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Ketersediaan Tenaga Kesehatan Promotif dan Preventif Puskesmas di Kabupaten Jember

Multidisciplinary Journal ◽

10.19184/multijournal.v2i1.20107 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 16

Author(s):

Rizkiy Shofiah ◽

Dewi Prihatini ◽

Sebastiana Viphindartin

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Health Service ◽

Human Resources ◽

Community Health ◽

Health Workers ◽

Community Health Service ◽

Qualitative Approach ◽

Health Human Resources ◽

Descriptive Research ◽

Public Health Workers

Community Health service is the first level facility which enables promotive and preventive service to gain health. The administration of health service should be supported by qualified medical workers to support the function of community health service. Concerrning its function, the service is required to have at least five promotive and preventive workers including laboratory analyst, nutritionist, public health workers, and sanitary worker. The availability of medical human resources in Community Health service has not yet distributed evenly in Jember Regency. The recruitment of the health human resources in Jember still focuses on medical workers This research is a descriptive research using qualitative approach aiming at describing the availability of promotive and preventive workers in Community health service in Jember regency based on Minimum Resources Standard. The findings shows that out of 50 Health service 30 of them do not have analyst , 28 without nutritionist, 37 with no public health workers and 36 without sanitation workers , as shown by data from Health Office. The informant reveals that the uneven distribution of promotive and primitive workers is caused by (1) Health office zero recruitment for Health service, (2) the policy restriction for health service for utrititonist, (3) the limit of Health service budget for the recruitment. Keyword: the availability, promotive and preventive workers, community health service

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Health Human Resources: Cost Driver of the Canadian Health Care System

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.1015803 ◽

2003 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ruolz Ariste ◽

Jeff Carr

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Human Resources ◽

Health Care System ◽

Cost Driver ◽

Health Human Resources ◽

Canadian Health Care System ◽

Canadian Health ◽

Canadian Health Care ◽

Care System

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COVID-19: A comparative study of SARS, MERS and COVID-19

Coronaviruses ◽

10.2174/2666796701999200905093233 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 01 ◽

Author(s):

Chandra Mohan ◽

Vinod Kumar

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Comparative Analysis ◽

Central China ◽

World Health ◽

Unknown Aetiology ◽

Economic Sectors ◽

Past Life ◽

Current Article ◽

Disease Spreading ◽

Health Organization

: World Health Organization (WHO) office in China received the information of pneumonia cases of unknown aetiology from Wuhan, central China on 31st December 2019, subsequently this disease spreading in china and rest of world. Till the March 2020 end, more than 2 lakhs confirmed cases with more than 70000 deaths were reported worldwide, very soon researchers identified it as novel beta Corona virus (virus SARS-CoV-2) and its infection coined as COVID-19. Health ministries of various countries and WHO together fighting to this health emergency, which not only affects public health, but also started affecting various economic sectors as well. The main aim of the current article is to explore the various pandemic situations (SARS, MERS) in past, life cycle of COVID-19, diagnosis procedures, prevention and comparative analysis of COVID-19 with other epidemic situations.

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