Multidisciplinary Public Health
Understanding the Development of the Modern Workforce
1st Edition
Published on 30. July 2014
224 pages
978-1-4473-0034-2 (ISBN)
Description
Including the voices of key protagonists in the development of the public health workforce, this book is an important addition to the history of public health in England. It charts events leading to the unique achievement, from 2003, of specialist status, equivalent to public health medical consultants, for those from non-medical backgrounds. Setting these changes in context it discusses implications for practitioners and the wider UK public health workforce. A lively and comprehensive review of policy change, Multidisciplinary public health: Understanding the development of the modern workforce concludes with a reflection on the new public health system under way in England, making useful comparisons with the rest of the UK. This is an invaluable resource for anyone with an interest in public health, including public health academics and relevant postgraduate students.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bristol University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Not illustrated
ISBN-13
978-1-4473-0034-2 (9781447300342)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.51952/9781447300342
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Persons
Jenny Wright contributed to UK multidisciplinary public health from 2000 as a registered specialist, developing national competency and assessment frameworks and promoting public health careers. She was Chair of the FPHM Honorary Members Committee then Specialist Development Committee 1999-2004
Fiona Sim is the current chair Royal Society for Public Health and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; contributed nationally to building public health capacity as a senior public health physician within service, research and DH. She was a founding member of the Tripartite Group, representing RIPH. Fiona stood down from the group on taking up a role at DH in 2002.
Katie Wright is a Senior Public Health Officer in local government, She has a history doctorate and researched the multidisciplinary public health training scheme for her masters.
Fiona Sim is the current chair Royal Society for Public Health and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; contributed nationally to building public health capacity as a senior public health physician within service, research and DH. She was a founding member of the Tripartite Group, representing RIPH. Fiona stood down from the group on taking up a role at DH in 2002.
Katie Wright is a Senior Public Health Officer in local government, She has a history doctorate and researched the multidisciplinary public health training scheme for her masters.
Content
- Intro
- MULTIDISCIPLINARY PUBLIC HEALTH
- Contents
- List of tables and figures
- Tables
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- About the authors
- Foreword
- 1. Introduction and methods
- Introduction
- Changing perceptions of public health
- How the public health workforce has changed
- Developing the whole public health workforce
- The international dimension
- Outline of the book structure
- Synopsis of book content
- 2. Developing the specialty of public health, 1972-90
- Introduction
- The public health medical workforce and model for public health from 1948
- The 1974 health service reorganisation
- Creating a specialist identity within medicine and the National Health Service
- Naming the Faculty of Community Medicine
- The early years of the specialty of community medicine within the reformed health service
- The start of the health promotion movement and the Alma Ata Declaration
- The 1980s and the beginnings of 'new' public health
- Health promotion and an emerging focus on health inequalities
- The resurgence of public health medicine as a dominating force
- The Faculty of Community Medicine changes its name
- 3. The multidisciplinary public health movement of the 1990s
- Introduction
- Health service changes that had an impact on the public health workforce and the skills it needed
- The health improvement and community development agenda
- Early changes within the Faculty of Public Health Medicine to create honorary members from backgrounds other than medicine
- The start of multidisciplinary Masters in Public Health courses in response to demand from those not medically qualified
- Mapping and gathering together the multidisciplinary public health workforce
- The rise of the national Multidisciplinary Public Health Forum
- The Faculty of Public Health Medicine votes not to extend membership to those from backgrounds other than medicine
- A changing climate: the Tripartite Group leading the multidisciplinary public health initiative
- New government, new initiatives
- The Faculty of Public Health Medicine votes for first-stage acceptance of non-medics
- 4. Changes for specialists I: Setting up a multidisciplinary public health senior appointments process
- Introduction
- The incoming Labour's government's health strategy - creating specialists in public health from backgrounds other than medicine
- Shifting the balance of power - multidisciplinary Directors of Public Health
- The setting up of a dedicated agency for health protection
- Categorising the public health workforce and refining the definition of competency: a key phase in public health development for specialists
- Moves to increase public health capacity
- Further reorganisation
- Formal partnerships with local authorities - public health begins its return to local government
- Academic public health
- A halt to the steady progress
- A decade of change for specialists
- 5. Changes for specialists II: The new regulatory system for specialists
- Introduction
- Setting up the regulatory processes
- Defined specialists
- The future of specialist regulation
- 6. Changes for specialists III: The establishment of multidisciplinary higher specialist training in public health
- Introduction
- Setting the context: medical training in public health
- The development of early regional public health training schemes for those from backgrounds other than medicine
- Reducing inconsistency across the early schemes
- Creating a national model for multidisciplinary training schemes
- The impact of Modernising medical careers on integrating public health specialist training
- The changing profile of trainees over time
- Reflections
- 7. The focus on practitioners and the wider workforce
- Introduction
- Rise of interest in developing and recognising specific public health practitioner disciplines and functions
- The rise of the concept of specialists in defined areas of practice and its impact on practitioners
- Focus on specific initiatives for the development of practitioners following the 2004 White Paper
- The Faculty of Public Health: a specialist professional body only or inclusive of practitioners? A strategic approach to practitioner recognition and development
- The UK Public Health Register opens up its register to practitioners
- Recognising the value of the wider public health workforce
- Initiatives from 2006
- The wider workforce in the reformed National Health Service and public health systems
- 8. Where we are now? The new public health system in England from April 2013
- Introduction
- New public health system for England from 2013
- The Department of Health
- Public Health England
- Local government
- Health care public health
- The transition
- And the future, one year after implementation
- The professional public health system
- A new strategy for the public health workforce based on consultation with the workforce
- Responses to the public health workforce consultation: comments and concerns
- What was not covered in the strategy
- 9. Experience across the other UK countries
- Introduction
- Wales
- Scotland
- Northern Ireland
- Overall reflections
- 10. Conclusion
- Introduction
- What has been achieved since the 1990s to develop the public health workforce and what has been its impact on health?
- What has not yet been achieved?
- The context for change
- The English model in an international context
- Time for a new paradigm?
- And what of the future for the English public health workforce?
- References
- Appendix 1: Timeline
- Index
