Article 2005

The South Central Center for Public Health Preparedness training system model: A comprehensive approach

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Sarpy, Sue Ann
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Chauvin, Sheila W.
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Hites, Lisle S.
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Santacaterina, Laurita
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Capper, Stuart A.
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Cuccia, Martha
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Anderson, Ann C.
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Petersen, Donna J.
Public Health Reports
Journal · Vol. 120 · Issue SUPLL. 1 · pp. 52-58
Abstract

The South Central Center for Public Health Preparedness (SCCPHP) is a collaboration among the schools of public health at Tulane University and the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the state health departments in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. The SCCPHP provides competency-based training via distant delivery methods to prepare public health workers to plan for and rapidly respond to public health threats and emergency events. This article presents the training system model used by the SCCPHP to assess, design, develop, implement, and evaluate training that is both competency driven and practice based. The SCCPHP training system model ensures a standardized process is used across public health occupations and geographic regions, while allowing for tailoring of the content to meet the specific training needs of the workforce in the respective state and local health departments. Further, the SCCPHP training system model provides evidence of the reciprocal nature between research and practice needed to advance the area of emergency preparedness training and workforce development initiatives in public health. ©2005 Association of Schools of Public Health.

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Teaching human Humans Article Vocational education curriculum university education United States medical profession health care personnel school organization and management methodology educational model Models, Educational competency-based education health care need Health education public health health services research health care access health care planning priority journal public health service emergency geography threat Southeastern United States
Author Affiliations
Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA, United States, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA, United States
Department of Public Health, LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, United States
Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA, United States
School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA, United States
South Central Center for Public Health Preparedness and Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA, United States
Department of Health Care Organization and Policy, Birmingham, AL, United States
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