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By Essential Public      Health Service

To learn more about skill levels, please see the Prologue.

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Competencies

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Definitions

Essential Service #1:   Monitor health status to identify community health problems
Essential Service #2:   Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community
Essential Service #3:   Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues
Essential Service #4:   Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems
Essential Service #5:   Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts
Essential Service #6:   Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety
Essential Service #7:   Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable
Essential Service #8:   Assure a competent public health and personal health care workforce
Essential Service #9:   Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services
Essential Service #10: Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems

Essential Service #1:
Monitor health status to identify community health problems

Analytic/Assessment Skills

• Defines a problem
• Determines appropriate uses and limitations of both quantitative and qualitative data
• Selects and defines variables relevant to defined public health problems
• Identifies relevant and appropriate data and information sources
• Evaluates the integrity and comparability of data and identifies gaps in data sources
• Applies ethical principles to the collection, maintenance, use, and dissemination of data and information
• Makes relevant inferences from quantitative and qualitative data
• Obtains and interprets information regarding risks and benefits to the community
• Applies data collection processes, information technology applications, and computer systems storage/retrieval strategies
• Recognizes how the data illuminate ethical, political, scientific, economic, and overall public health issues

Policy Development/Program Planning Skills

• Collects, summarizes, and interprets information relevant to an issue
• Decides on the appropriate course of action

Communication Skills

• Communicates effectively both in writing and orally, or in other ways
• Solicits input from individuals and organizations
• Advocates for public health programs and resources
• Leads and participates in groups to address specific issues
• Uses the media, advanced technologies, and community networks to communicate information
• Effectively presents accurate demographic, statistical, programmatic, and scientific information for professional and lay audiences
• Listens to others in an unbiased manner, respects points of view of others, and promotes the expression of diverse opinions and perspectives (attitude)

Cultural Competency Skills

• Utilizes appropriate methods for interacting sensitively, effectively, and professionally with persons from diverse cultural, socioeconomic, educational, racial, ethnic and professional backgrounds, and persons of all ages and lifestyle preferences
• Understands the dynamic forces contributing to cultural diversity (attitude)

Community Dimensions of Practice Skills

• Develops, implements, and evaluates a community public health assessment

Basic Public Health Sciences Skills

• Defines, assesses, and understands the health status of populations, determinants of health and illness, factors contributing to health promotion and disease prevention, and factors influencing the use of health services
• Applies the basic public health sciences including behavioral and social sciences, biostatistics, epidemiology, environmental public health, and prevention of chronic and infectious diseases and injuries

Financial Planning and Management Skills

• Develops and presents a budget
• Manages programs within budget constraints
• Applies budget processes
• Develops strategies for determining budget priorities
• Monitors program performance · Prepares proposals for funding from external sources · Applies basic human relations skills to the management of organizations, motivation of personnel, and resolution of conflicts · Manages information systems for collection, retrieval, and use of data for decision-making

Leadership and Systems Thinking Skills

• Creates a culture of ethical standards within organizations and communities
• Identifies internal and external issues that may impact delivery of essential public health services (i.e. strategic planning)

Essential Service #2:
Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community

Analytic/Assessment Skills

• Defines a problem
• Determines appropriate uses and limitations of both quantitative and qualitative data
• Selects and defines variables relevant to defined public health problems
• Identifies relevant and appropriate data and information sources
• Evaluates the integrity and comparability of data and identifies gaps in data sources
• Applies ethical principles to the collection, maintenance, use, and dissemination of data and information
• Partners with communities to attach meaning to collected quantitative and qualitative data
• Makes relevant inferences from quantitative and qualitative data
• Obtains and interprets information regarding risks and benefits to the community
• Recognizes how the data illuminate ethical, political, scientific, economic, and overall public health issues

Policy Development/Program Planning Skills

• Collects, summarizes, and interprets information relevant to an issue
• States policy options and writes clear and concise policy statements
• Articulates the health, fiscal, administrative, legal, social, and political implications of each policy option
• States the feasibility and expected outcomes of each policy option
• Decides on the appropriate course of action
• Develops mechanisms to monitor and evaluate programs for their effectiveness and quality

Communication Skills

• Communicates effectively both in writing and orally, or in other ways · Solicits input from individuals and organizations
• Leads and participates in groups to address specific issues
• Uses the media, advanced technologies, and community networks to communicate information
• Effectively presents accurate demographic, statistical, programmatic, and scientific information for professional and lay audiences
• Listens to others in an unbiased manner, respects points of view of others, and promotes the expression of diverse opinions and perspectives (attitude)

• Utilizes appropriate methods for interacting sensitively, effectively, and professionally with persons from diverse cultural, socioeconomic, educational, racial, ethnic and professional backgrounds, and persons of all ages and lifestyle preferences
• Understands the dynamic forces contributing to cultural diversity (attitude)

Community Dimensions of Practice Skills

• Accomplishes effective community engagements
• Identifies community assets and available resources
• Develops, implements, and evaluates a community public health assessment

• Defines, assesses, and understands the health status of populations, determinants of health and illness, factors contributing to health promotion and disease prevention, and factors influencing the use of health services
• Identifies and applies basic research methods used in public health
• Applies the basic public health sciences including behavioral and social sciences, biostatistics, epidemiology, environmental public health, and prevention of chronic and infectious diseases and injuries

Financial Planning and Management Skills

• Develops and presents a budget
• Manages programs within budget constraints
• Applies budget processes
• Develops strategies for determining budget priorities
• Monitors program performance
• Prepares proposals for funding from external sources
• Applies basic human relations skills to the management of organizations, motivation of personnel, and resolution of conflicts
• Manages information systems for collection, retrieval, and use of data for decision-making

Leadership and Systems Thinking Skills

• Creates a culture of ethical standards within organizations and communities
• Identifies internal and external issues that may impact delivery of essential public health services (i.e. strategic planning)

Essential Service #3:
Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues

Analytic/Assessment Skills

• Defines a problem
• Obtains and interprets information regarding risks and benefits to the community
• Recognizes how the data illuminate ethical, political, scientific, economic, and overall public health issues

Policy Development/Program Planning Skills

• Collects, summarizes, and interprets information relevant to an issue
• States policy options and writes clear and concise policy statements
• Identifies, interprets, and implements public health laws, regulations, and policies related to specific programs
• Articulates the health, fiscal, administrative, legal, social, and political implications of each policy option
• States the feasibility and expected outcomes of each policy option · Decides on the appropriate course of action

• Communicates effectively both in writing and orally, or in other ways
• Solicits input from individuals and organizations
• Advocates for public health programs and resources
• Leads and participates in groups to address specific issues
• Uses the media, advanced technologies, and community networks to communicate information
• Effectively presents accurate demographic, statistical, programmatic, and scientific information for professional and lay audiences
• Listens to others in an unbiased manner, respects points of view of others, and promotes the expression of diverse opinions and perspectives (attitude)

Cultural Competency Skills

• Utilizes appropriate methods for interacting sensitively, effectively, and professionally with persons from diverse cultural, socioeconomic, educational, racial, ethnic and professional backgrounds, and persons of all ages and lifestyle preferences
• Identifies the role of cultural, social, and behavioral factors in determining the delivery of public health services
• Develops and adapts approaches to problems that take into account cultural differences
• Understands the dynamic forces contributing to cultural diversity (attitude)
• Understands the importance of a diverse public health workforce (attitude)

• Establishes and maintains linkages with key stakeholders
• Collaborates with community partners to promote the health of the population
• Identifies how public and private organizations operate within a community
• Accomplishes effective community engagements

Basic Public Health Sciences Skills

• Defines, assesses, and understands the health status of populations, determinants of health and illness, factors contributing to health promotion and disease prevention, and factors influencing the use of health services
• Applies the basic public health sciences including behavioral and social sciences, biostatistics, epidemiology, environmental public health, and prevention of chronic and infectious diseases and injuries

Financial Planning and Management Skills

• Develops and presents a budget
• Manages programs within budget constraints
• Applies budget processes
• Develops strategies for determining budget priorities
• Monitors program performance
• Prepares proposals for funding from external sources
• Applies basic human relations skills to the management of organizations, motivation of personnel, and resolution of conflicts
• Negotiates and develops contracts and other documents for the provision of population-based services

• Creates a culture of ethical standards within organizations and communities
• Helps create key values and shared vision and uses these principles to guide action
• Identifies internal and external issues that may impact delivery of essential public health services (i.e. strategic planning)
• Facilitates collaboration with internal and external groups to ensure participation of key stakeholders
• Uses the legal and political system to effect change

Essential Service #4:
Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems

Analytic/Assessment Skills

• Defines a problem
• Partners with communities to attach meaning to collected quantitative and qualitative data
• Recognizes how the data illuminate ethical, political, scientific, economic, and overall public health issues

• Collects, summarizes, and interprets information relevant to an issue
• States policy options and writes clear and concise policy statements
• Identifies, interprets, and implements public health laws, regulations, and policies related to specific programs
• Articulates the health, fiscal, administrative, legal, social, and political implications of each policy option
• States the feasibility and expected outcomes of each policy option · Decides on the appropriate course of action

Communication Skills

• Communicates effectively both in writing and orally, or in other ways · Solicits input from individuals and organizations
• Advocates for public health programs and resources
• Leads and participates in groups to address specific issues
• Uses the media, advanced technologies, and community networks to communicate information
• Effectively presents accurate demographic, statistical, programmatic, and scientific information for professional and lay audiences
• Listens to others in an unbiased manner, respects points of view of others, and promotes the expression of diverse opinions and perspectives (attitude)

Cultural Competency Skills

• Utilizes appropriate methods for interacting sensitively, effectively, and professionally with persons from diverse cultural, socioeconomic, educational, racial, ethnic and professional backgrounds, and persons of all ages and lifestyle preferences
• Identifies the role of cultural, social, and behavioral factors in determining the delivery of public health services
• Develops and adapts approaches to problems that take into account cultural differences
• Understands the dynamic forces contributing to cultural diversity (attitude)
• Understands the importance of a diverse public health workforce (attitude)

Community Dimensions of Practice Skills

• Establishes and maintains linkages with key stakeholders
• Utilizes leadership, team building, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills to build community partnerships
• Collaborates with community partners to promote the health of the population
• Identifies how public and private organizations operate within a community
• Accomplishes effective community engagements
• Identifies community assets and available resources

Basic Public Health Sciences Skills

• Defines, assesses, and understands the health status of populations, determinants of health and illness, factors contributing to health promotion and disease prevention, and factors influencing the use of health services
• Applies the basic public health sciences including behavioral and social sciences, biostatistics, epidemiology, environmental public health, and prevention of chronic and infectious diseases and injuries

Financial Planning and Management Skills

• Develops and presents a budget
• Manages programs within budget constraints
• Applies budget processes
• Develops strategies for determining budget priorities
• Monitors program performance
• Prepares proposals for funding from external sources
• Applies basic human relations skills to the management of organizations, motivation of personnel, and resolution of conflicts
• Negotiates and develops contracts and other documents for the provision of population-based services

• Creates a culture of ethical standards within organizations and communities
• Helps create key values and shared vision and uses these principles to guide action
• Identifies internal and external issues that may impact delivery of essential public health services (i.e. strategic planning)
• Facilitates collaboration with internal and external groups to ensure participation of key stakeholders
• Uses the legal and political system to effect change
• Applies theory of organizational structures to professional practice

Essential Service #5:
Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts

Analytic/Assessment Skills

• Defines a problem
• Recognizes how the data illuminate ethical, political, scientific, economic, and overall public health issues

• Collects, summarizes, and interprets information relevant to an issue
• States policy options and writes clear and concise policy statements
• Identifies, interprets, and implements public health laws, regulations, and policies related to specific programs
• Articulates the health, fiscal, administrative, legal, social, and political implications of each policy option
• States the feasibility and expected outcomes of each policy option
• Utilizes current techniques in decision analysis and health planning
• Decides on the appropriate course of action
• Develops a plan to implement policy, including goals, outcome and process objectives, and implementation steps
• Translates policy into organizational plans, structures, and programs
• Prepares and implements emergency response plans
• Develops mechanisms to monitor and evaluate programs for their effectiveness and quality

Communication Skills

• Communicates effectively both in writing and orally, or in other ways
• Solicits input from individuals and organizations
• Leads and participates in groups to address specific issues
• Uses the media, advanced technologies, and community networks to communicate information
• Effectively presents accurate demographic, statistical, programmatic, and scientific information for professional and lay audiences
• Listens to others in an unbiased manner, respects points of view of others, and promotes the expression of diverse opinions and perspectives (attitude)

Cultural Competency Skills

• Utilizes appropriate methods for interacting sensitively, effectively, and professionally with persons from diverse cultural, socioeconomic, educational, racial, ethnic and professional backgrounds, and persons of all ages and lifestyle preferences
• Identifies the role of cultural, social, and behavioral factors in determining the delivery of public health services
• Develops and adapts approaches to problems that take into account cultural differences
• Understands the dynamic forces contributing to cultural diversity (attitude)
• Understands the importance of a diverse public health workforce (attitude)

Community Dimensions of Practice Skills

• Establishes and maintains linkages with key stakeholders
• Utilizes leadership, team building, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills to build community partnerships
• Collaborates with community partners to promote the health of the population
• Identifies how public and private organizations operate within a community
• Accomplishes effective community engagements
• Describes the role of government in the delivery of community health services

Basic Public Health Sciences Skills

• Defines, assesses, and understands the health status of populations, determinants of health and illness, factors contributing to health promotion and disease prevention, and factors influencing the use of health services
• Applies the basic public health sciences including behavioral and social sciences, biostatistics, epidemiology, environmental public health, and prevention of chronic and infectious diseases and injuries

Financial Planning and Management Skills

• Develops and presents a budget
• Manages programs within budget constraints
• Applies budget processes
• Develops strategies for determining budget priorities
• Monitors program performance
• Prepares proposals for funding from external sources
• Applies basic human relations skills to the management of organizations, motivation of personnel, and resolution of conflicts
• Negotiates and develops contracts and other documents for the provision of population-based services
• Conducts cost-effectiveness, cost-benefit, and cost utility analyses

Leadership and Systems Thinking Skills

• Creates a culture of ethical standards within organizations and communities
• Helps create key values and shared vision and uses these principles to guide action
• Identifies internal and external issues that may impact delivery of essential public health services (i.e. strategic planning)
• Facilitates collaboration with internal and external groups to ensure participation of key stakeholders
• Contributes to development, implementation, and monitoring of organizational performance standards
• Uses the legal and political system to effect change
• Applies theory of organizational structures to professional practice

Essential Service #6:
Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety

Analytic/Assessment Skills

• Defines a problem
• Obtains and interprets information regarding risks and benefits to the community
• Recognizes how the data illuminate ethical, political, scientific, economic, and overall public health issues

• Collects, summarizes, and interprets information relevant to an issue · Identifies, interprets, and implements public health laws, regulations, and policies related to specific programs
• Decides on the appropriate course of action

Communication Skills

• Communicates effectively both in writing and orally, or in other ways
• Solicits input from individuals and organizations
• Leads and participates in groups to address specific issues
• Uses the media, advanced technologies, and community networks to communicate information
• Effectively presents accurate demographic, statistical, programmatic, and scientific information for professional and lay audiences
• Listens to others in an unbiased manner, respects points of view of others, and promotes the expression of diverse opinions and perspectives (attitude)

• Utilizes appropriate methods for interacting sensitively, effectively, and professionally with persons from diverse cultural, socioeconomic, educational, racial, ethnic and professional backgrounds, and persons of all ages and lifestyle preferences
• Understands the dynamic forces contributing to cultural diversity (attitude)
• Understands the importance of a diverse public health workforce (attitude)

Community Dimensions of Practice Skills

• Accomplishes effective community engagements
• Describes the role of government in the delivery of community health services

Basic Public Health Sciences Skills

• Defines, assesses, and understands the health status of populations, determinants of health and illness, factors contributing to health promotion and disease prevention, and factors influencing the use of health services
• Applies the basic public health sciences including behavioral and social sciences, biostatistics, epidemiology, environmental public health, and prevention of chronic and infectious diseases and injuries

• Develops and presents a budget
• Manages programs within budget constraints
• Applies budget processes
• Develops strategies for determining budget priorities
• Monitors program performance
• Prepares proposals for funding from external sources
• Applies basic human relations skills to the management of organizations, motivation of personnel, and resolution of conflicts
• Negotiates and develops contracts and other documents for the provision of population-based services

Leadership and Systems Thinking Skills

• Creates a culture of ethical standards within organizations and communities
• Identifies internal and external issues that may impact delivery of essential public health services (i.e. strategic planning)
• Contributes to development, implementation, and monitoring of organizational performance standards
• Uses the legal and political system to effect change
• Applies theory of organizational structures to professional practice

Essential Service #7:
Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable

Analytic/Assessment Skills

• Defines a problem
• Determines appropriate uses and limitations of both quantitative and qualitative data
• Makes relevant inferences from quantitative and qualitative data
• Recognizes how the data illuminate ethical, political, scientific, economic, and overall public health issues

• Collects, summarizes, and interprets information relevant to an issue
• States policy options and writes clear and concise policy statements
• Articulates the health, fiscal, administrative, legal, social, and political implications of each policy option
• States the feasibility and expected outcomes of each policy option
• Utilizes current techniques in decision analysis and health planning
• Decides on the appropriate course of action
• Develops a plan to implement policy, including goals, outcome and process objectives, and implementation steps
• Translates policy into organizational plans, structures, and programs
• Prepares and implements emergency response plans
• Develops mechanisms to monitor and evaluate programs for their effectiveness and quality

Communication Skills

• Communicates effectively both in writing and orally, or in other ways
• Solicits input from individuals and organizations
• Leads and participates in groups to address specific issues
• Uses the media, advanced technologies, and community networks to communicate information
• Listens to others in an unbiased manner, respects points of view of others, and promotes the expression of diverse opinions and perspectives (attitude)

Cultural Competency Skills

• Utilizes appropriate methods for interacting sensitively, effectively, and professionally with persons from diverse cultural, socioeconomic, educational, racial, ethnic and professional backgrounds, and persons of all ages and lifestyle preferences
• Identifies the role of cultural, social, and behavioral factors in determining the delivery of public health services
• Develops and adapts approaches to problems that take into account cultural differences
• Understands the dynamic forces contributing to cultural diversity (attitude)
• Understands the importance of a diverse public health workforce (attitude)

Community Dimensions of Practice Skills

• Establishes and maintains linkages with key stakeholders
• Utilizes leadership, team building, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills to build community partnerships
• Collaborates with community partners to promote the health of the population
• Identifies how public and private organizations operate within a community · Accomplishes effective community engagements
• Identifies community assets and available resources
• Describes the role of government in the delivery of community health services

• Defines, assesses, and understands the health status of populations, determinants of health and illness, factors contributing to health promotion and disease prevention, and factors influencing the use of health services
• Applies the basic public health sciences including behavioral and social sciences, biostatistics, epidemiology, environmental public health, and prevention of chronic and infectious diseases and injuries

Financial Planning and Management Skills

• Develops and presents a budget
• Manages programs within budget constraints
• Applies budget processes
• Develops strategies for determining budget priorities
• Monitors program performance
• Prepares proposals for funding from external sources
• Applies basic human relations skills to the management of organizations, motivation of personnel, and resolution of conflicts

• Creates a culture of ethical standards within organizations and communities
• Identifies internal and external issues that may impact delivery of essential public health services (i.e. strategic planning)
• Applies theory of organizational structures to professional practice

Essential Service #8:
Assure a competent public health and personal health care workforce

Analytic/Assessment Skills

• Defines a problem
• Determines appropriate uses and limitations of both quantitative and qualitative data
• Recognizes how the data illuminate ethical, political, scientific, economic, and overall public health issues

Policy Development/Program Planning Skills

• Collects, summarizes, and interprets information relevant to an issue
• States policy options and writes clear and concise policy statements
• Articulates the health, fiscal, administrative, legal, social, and political implications of each policy option
• States the feasibility and expected outcomes of each policy option
• Decides on the appropriate course of action
• Develops a plan to implement policy, including goals, outcome and process objectives, and implementation steps
• Translates policy into organizational plans, structures, and programs
• Develops mechanisms to monitor and evaluate programs for their effectiveness and quality

• Communicates effectively both in writing and orally, or in other ways
• Solicits input from individuals and organizations
• Advocates for public health programs and resources
• Leads and participates in groups to address specific issues
• Uses the media, advanced technologies, and community networks to communicate information
• Listens to others in an unbiased manner, respects points of view of others, and promotes the expression of diverse opinions and perspectives (attitude)

Cultural Competency Skills

• Utilizes appropriate methods for interacting sensitively, effectively, and professionally with persons from diverse cultural, socioeconomic, educational, racial, ethnic and professional backgrounds, and persons of all ages and lifestyle preferences
• Develops and adapts approaches to problems that take into account cultural differences
• Understands the dynamic forces contributing to cultural diversity (attitude)
• Understands the importance of a diverse public health workforce (attitude)

• Identifies how public and private organizations operate within a community

Basic Public Health Sciences Skills

• Identifies the individual's and organization's responsibilities within the context of the Essential Public Health Services and core functions
• Defines, assesses, and understands the health status of populations, determinants of health and illness, factors contributing to health promotion and disease prevention, and factors influencing the use of health services
• Understands the historical development, structure, and interaction of public health and health care systems
• Applies the basic public health sciences including behavioral and social sciences, biostatistics, epidemiology, environmental public health, and prevention of chronic and infectious diseases and injuries
• Identifies and retrieves current relevant scientific evidence
• Develops a lifelong commitment to rigorous critical thinking (attitude)

• Develops and presents a budget
• Manages programs within budget constraints
• Applies budget processes
• Develops strategies for determining budget priorities
• Monitors program performance
• Prepares proposals for funding from external sources
• Applies basic human relations skills to the management of organizations, motivation of personnel, and resolution of conflicts

Leadership and Systems Thinking Skills

• Creates a culture of ethical standards within organizations and communities
• Identifies internal and external issues that may impact delivery of essential public health services (i.e. strategic planning)
• Promotes team and organizational learning
• Contributes to development, implementation, and monitoring of organizational performance standards
• Applies theory of organizational structures to professional practice

Essential Service #9:
Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services

Analytic/Assessment Skills

• Defines a problem
• Determines appropriate uses and limitations of both quantitative and qualitative data
• Identifies relevant and appropriate data and information sources
• Evaluates the integrity and comparability of data and identifies gaps in data sources
• Applies ethical principles to the collection, maintenance, use, and dissemination of data and information
• Makes relevant inferences from quantitative and qualitative data
• Recognizes how the data illuminate ethical, political, scientific, economic, and overall public health issues

• Collects, summarizes, and interprets information relevant to an issue
• Identifies, interprets, and implements public health laws, regulations, and policies related to specific programs
• Decides on the appropriate course of action
• Develops mechanisms to monitor and evaluate programs for their effectiveness and quality

Communication Skills

• Communicates effectively both in writing and orally, or in other ways
• Solicits input from individuals and organizations
• Advocates for public health programs and resources
• Leads and participates in groups to address specific issues
• Uses the media, advanced technologies, and community networks to communicate information
• Effectively presents accurate demographic, statistical, programmatic, and scientific information for professional and lay audiences
• Listens to others in an unbiased manner, respects points of view of others, and promotes the expression of diverse opinions and perspectives (attitude)

• Utilizes appropriate methods for interacting sensitively, effectively, and professionally with persons from diverse cultural, socioeconomic, educational, racial, ethnic and professional backgrounds, and persons of all ages and lifestyle preferences
• Identifies the role of cultural, social, and behavioral factors in determining the delivery of public health services
• Develops and adapts approaches to problems that take into account cultural differences
• Understands the dynamic forces contributing to cultural diversity (attitude)
• Understands the importance of a diverse public health workforce (attitude)

Community Dimensions of Practice Skills

• Develops, implements, and evaluates a community public health assessment

• Defines, assesses, and understands the health status of populations, determinants of health and illness, factors contributing to health promotion and disease prevention, and factors influencing the use of health services
• Understands the historical development, structure, and interaction of public health and health care systems
• Identifies and applies basic research methods used in public health
• Applies the basic public health sciences including behavioral and social sciences, biostatistics, epidemiology, environmental public health, and prevention of chronic and infectious diseases and injuries

Financial Planning and Management Skills

• Develops and presents a budget
• Manages programs within budget constraints
• Applies budget processes
• Develops strategies for determining budget priorities
• Monitors program performance
• Prepares proposals for funding from external sources
• Applies basic human relations skills to the management of organizations, motivation of personnel, and resolution of conflicts
• Conducts cost-effectiveness, cost-benefit, and cost utility analyses

• Creates a culture of ethical standards within organizations and communities
• Identifies internal and external issues that may impact delivery of essential public health services (i.e. strategic planning)
• Facilitates collaboration with internal and external groups to ensure participation of key stakeholders
• Contributes to development, implementation, and monitoring of organizational performance standards

Essential Service #10:
Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems

Analytic/Assessment Skills

• Defines a problem
• Determines appropriate uses and limitations of both quantitative and qualitative data
• Selects and defines variables relevant to defined public health problems
• Identifies relevant and appropriate data and information sources
• Evaluates the integrity and comparability of data and identifies gaps in data sources
• Applies ethical principles to the collection, maintenance, use, and dissemination of data and information
• Makes relevant inferences from quantitative and qualitative data
• Recognizes how the data illuminate ethical, political, scientific, economic, and overall public health issues

• Collects, summarizes, and interprets information relevant to an issue
• Decides on the appropriate course of action

Communication Skills

• Communicates effectively both in writing and orally, or in other ways
• Solicits input from individuals and organizations
• Advocates for public health programs and resources
• Leads and participates in groups to address specific issues
• Uses the media, advanced technologies, and community networks to communicate information
• Effectively presents accurate demographic, statistical, programmatic, and scientific information for professional and lay audiences
• Listens to others in an unbiased manner, respects points of view of others, and promotes the expression of diverse opinions and perspectives (attitude)

Cultural Competency Skills

• Utilizes appropriate methods for interacting sensitively, effectively, and professionally with persons from diverse cultural, socioeconomic, educational, racial, ethnic and professional backgrounds, and persons of all ages and lifestyle preferences
• Identifies the role of cultural, social, and behavioral factors in determining the delivery of public health services
• Develops and adapts approaches to problems that take into account cultural differences
• Understands the dynamic forces contributing to cultural diversity (attitude)

Community Dimensions of Practice Skills

• Identifies how public and private organizations operate within a community

• Defines, assesses, and understands the health status of populations, determinants of health and illness, factors contributing to health promotion and disease prevention, and factors influencing the use of health services
• Understands the historical development, structure, and interaction of public health and health care systems
• Identifies and applies basic research methods used in public health
• Applies the basic public health sciences including behavioral and social sciences, biostatistics, epidemiology, environmental public health, and prevention of chronic and infectious diseases and injuries
• Identifies and retrieves current relevant scientific evidence
• Identifies the limitations of research and the importance of observations and interrelationships

Financial Planning and Management Skills

• Develops and presents a budget
• Manages programs within budget constraints
• Applies budget processes
• Develops strategies for determining budget priorities
• Monitors program performance
• Prepares proposals for funding from external sources
• Applies basic human relations skills to the management of organizations, motivation of personnel, and resolution of conflicts

Leadership and Systems Thinking Skills

• Creates a culture of ethical standards within organizations and communities
• Identifies internal and external issues that may impact delivery of essential public health services (i.e. strategic planning)
• Facilitates collaboration with internal and external groups to ensure participation of key stakeholders