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Nearly all employers said well-being programs continued to play a role in their overall workforce strategy and that they would maintain funding for these programs at current levels, according to the 15th Annual Employer-Sponsored Health and Well-being Survey, by Business Group on Health and Fidelity Investments. Some other major findings: More than half of all respondents plan to broaden their well-being strategy in the next three to five years to address social determinants of health; employers also plan to continue providing family-forming benefits and reproductive support in the near future. https://okt.to/Lc4P0t

Beyond addressing the exodus, filling the need for added skills with data and communication will be the determining factors for lifespan and well-being over the next generation.

"Racial inequities in our public health system are unjust health care. This DPH Strategic Plan to Advance Racial Equity acknowledges that, to advance health equity, DPH must use an intersectional, equity-centered lens to focus on addressing the persistent racial inequities impacting the health access, treatment, outcomes, and overall well-being of people across the Commonwealth, specifically those who identify as Black, Indigenous, Hispanic/Latino, and/or Asian/Pacific Islander. The COVID-19 pandemic brought into painful, undeniable, public view the clear, present, and ongoing health inequities perpetuated by systemic racial inequities across public health infrastructure, health care delivery systems, and social determinants of health in Massachusetts." https://lnkd.in/eDWbXvHe

Next Steps for Public Health - Building Trust, Building Confidence and Refocusing the Public Health Field. Continuing today's health equity theme.

Why do most public health programs leave out local communities’ “Know-How”? Let’s say a Public Health program which targets new and future pregnant women in view of preventing morbi-mortality pre, intra, and post delivery, sets in within community X. Now, in this community, the socio-cultural dynamics, despite the presence of health facilities, and SRH services promotion, channel women to a network of TBA who have been conducting simple and complicated deliveries for many decades. The TBA are deeply rooted into the socio-cultural fabric of the community, and their proximity with its members, if properly grafted into the Public Health program’s design and strategizing, could propel it to the highest level of sustainability possible, yielding more than expected results for maternal and child health, and by proxy, community well-being. Public health Experts and Consultants need to, more than ever, synergize conventional Public Health knowledge and practice with local communities’ know how. There is no better way to build and maintain programs’ sustainability. Respect and rights-based public health practice demands the Expert to apply some “humility” and acknowledge that, if well studied, the target population might already be having the solutions to the problem identified, and those solutions just need to used positively and with the participation of the community. It has been observed that after closure, many Public Health Programs completely seize to be beneficial to the target populations they once served, and we ask ourselves why? The art of “implementing change for healthier populations” is a multifaceted concept at the heart of public health practice; its complexity can be simplified tremendously by simply looking through the prism of the community’s “know-how”, and positively channeling that “know-how” into an energy that fuels the “owning” of the the program by the people. #NewBreedOfPublicHealthPractitioners #CommunityKnowHow #ImplementingChangeForHealthierPopulations

A persons job can have a significant impact on their health and that of their family. However, employment and job characteristics are often not considered in public health research. Our new article that reviews some key CDC data collection systems to determine the degree to which they include work-related variables. It also provides some suggestions on how to better integrate work-related variables into these systems. Hope this is helpful.

Data from the Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey (PH WINS) points to an exodus of governmental public health employees, although these mass departures have been a long time coming. As de Beaumont President and CEO Brian C. Castrucci tells the journal Cancer Cytopathology, "The pandemic was an accelerant, but the fire was already burning." Read what public health leaders are saying about the consequences of a shrinking workforce and how to course correct: https://lnkd.in/gstq4REk Explore data from PH WINS to get the bigger picture of workforce challenges: https://lnkd.in/gXbK7fNy #PublicHealth #PublicHealthWorkforce

Public health workforce retention is a major issue to consider when discussing public health recovery initiatives. We can't plan long-term public and social health recovery without practitioners in the field.

Schools of Public Health, more than ever, must shift their training toward interdisciplinary, transformational navigation of “the complex political, economic, and ideological terrain that public health is faced with.” It’s all of us together – Epidemiologists, Community Health Scientists and Practitioners, Historians, Leadership, Implementation and Interventional Scientists and Practitioners, etc. Public health is rapidly evolving and “a deeper understanding of the past can inform how we approach persistent health disparities.” This means structural changes, systems changes, policy changes, environmental changes, etc., that reach across disciplinary bumper lanes to widen our partnerships with Schools of Public Health to “facilitate the translation and implementation of public health discoveries into practice at the population level.” I’m so grateful to be clinical faculty so my work can focus on “such things as community-led public health interventions, workforce development, or public health and legal partnerships…” Funding sources, grants, and other monies often “limit our field’s mission in ways that can be antithetical to promoting the sociocultural changes needed to improve the public’s health.” Schools of Public Health can shape and shift the action on these matters and lead us to achieving intended outcomes. #ODU #EVMS #NSU #JointSchoolofPublicHealth #PublicHealth Source: https://lnkd.in/eY_8ns4A

An important and insightful piece on the future of the field of Public Health published by our very own, Michael Yudell!