Jenny Wright, Fiona Sim, and Katie Ferguson
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781447300335
- eISBN:
- 9781447311690
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447300335.001.0001
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health
The book is an important addition to the history of public health in England. Starting in the 1970s, with a brief overview of earlier periods, it charts the events leading to the unique achievement ...
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The book is an important addition to the history of public health in England. Starting in the 1970s, with a brief overview of earlier periods, it charts the 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 later implications, changes and developments for practitioners and for the wider UK public health workforce. A lively and comprehensive review of policy change, the book concludes with a reflection on the new public health system in England, making useful comparisons with the rest of the UK and internationally. In addition to factual and historical source material, the book makes extensive use of comments from individuals prominent in furthering the changes that took place from two Witness Seminars as well as a series of interviews specially conducted for this book. This is an invaluable resource for anyone with an interest in public health, the workforce and its current state of development. It will also be of interest to public health academics and relevant postgraduate students.Less
The book is an important addition to the history of public health in England. Starting in the 1970s, with a brief overview of earlier periods, it charts the 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 later implications, changes and developments for practitioners and for the wider UK public health workforce. A lively and comprehensive review of policy change, the book concludes with a reflection on the new public health system in England, making useful comparisons with the rest of the UK and internationally. In addition to factual and historical source material, the book makes extensive use of comments from individuals prominent in furthering the changes that took place from two Witness Seminars as well as a series of interviews specially conducted for this book. This is an invaluable resource for anyone with an interest in public health, the workforce and its current state of development. It will also be of interest to public health academics and relevant postgraduate students.
Suzanne Henwood and Michelle Mcgannan
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- November 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198569855
- eISBN:
- 9780191730443
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198569855.003.0024
- Subject:
- Palliative Care, Palliative Medicine Research, Patient Care and End-of-Life Decision Making
This chapter discusses continuing professional development (CPD) within the overall context of the palliative care workforce. It investigates perceptions and individual attitudes surrounding CPD and ...
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This chapter discusses continuing professional development (CPD) within the overall context of the palliative care workforce. It investigates perceptions and individual attitudes surrounding CPD and how CPD can be evaluated to show that it impacts on the patient. It examines ways of assessing CPD needs, both for the individual and for the organization. It also discusses workforce development issues in relation to CPD with a specific emphasis on attempting to ensure the effective incorporation of CPD for all staff, in a complex working environment with multiple and competing priorities. Lastly, it offers an analysis of selected CPD methods, including a range of practical hints to ensure that these activities are appropriate to the specific context within which the individual practises. The methods include examples of new or creative provision, which can enhance the integration of learning within the palliative care workplace.Less
This chapter discusses continuing professional development (CPD) within the overall context of the palliative care workforce. It investigates perceptions and individual attitudes surrounding CPD and how CPD can be evaluated to show that it impacts on the patient. It examines ways of assessing CPD needs, both for the individual and for the organization. It also discusses workforce development issues in relation to CPD with a specific emphasis on attempting to ensure the effective incorporation of CPD for all staff, in a complex working environment with multiple and competing priorities. Lastly, it offers an analysis of selected CPD methods, including a range of practical hints to ensure that these activities are appropriate to the specific context within which the individual practises. The methods include examples of new or creative provision, which can enhance the integration of learning within the palliative care workplace.
Harold Wolman, Howard Wial, Travis St. Clair, and Edward Hill
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780801451690
- eISBN:
- 9781501709494
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801451690.003.0007
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
In chapters 6, we ask whether the most common intentional efforts to bring about recovery through public policy or civic action that we identified in the previous two chapters was likely to have made ...
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In chapters 6, we ask whether the most common intentional efforts to bring about recovery through public policy or civic action that we identified in the previous two chapters was likely to have made a difference. We do so by first, setting forth and discussing the logic underlying the policy, i.e., why and under what circumstances the policy might (or might not) be expected to have an effect on regional economic resilience or development. We then summarize the existing research literature that evaluates the specific policies and over what time frames they are likely to occur. Chapter 6 considers approaches related to the provision of public goods and to improve the operation of the region’s economy: human capital, education, and workforce development; infrastructure improvement; amenity improvement and creation; restructuring of economic development organizations; and leadership.Less
In chapters 6, we ask whether the most common intentional efforts to bring about recovery through public policy or civic action that we identified in the previous two chapters was likely to have made a difference. We do so by first, setting forth and discussing the logic underlying the policy, i.e., why and under what circumstances the policy might (or might not) be expected to have an effect on regional economic resilience or development. We then summarize the existing research literature that evaluates the specific policies and over what time frames they are likely to occur. Chapter 6 considers approaches related to the provision of public goods and to improve the operation of the region’s economy: human capital, education, and workforce development; infrastructure improvement; amenity improvement and creation; restructuring of economic development organizations; and leadership.
Sandra L. Bloom and Brian Farragher
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195374803
- eISBN:
- 9780199865420
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195374803.001.0001
- Subject:
- Social Work, Health and Mental Health
This book describes what happens to human service delivery programs under the impact of unrelenting stress and multiple losses. Never perfect places of safety in the first place, many ...
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This book describes what happens to human service delivery programs under the impact of unrelenting stress and multiple losses. Never perfect places of safety in the first place, many social services of every size, shape, and variety are collapsing under over thirty years of system fragmentation even while public costs have escalated dramatically. The result is that important places of refuge–of sanctuary–for the children, adults, and families who have been exposed to the greatest amount of adversity and trauma, are struggling to provide even the most minimally adequate services. We believe that at this point, our social service network is functioning as a trauma-organized system still largely unaware of the multiple ways in which adaptation to chronic stress has created a state of dysfunction that in many cases virtually prohibits the recovery of the individual clients who are the source of the underlying and original organizational missions, while damaging many of the people who work within it. Just as the encroachment of trauma into the life of an individual client is an insidious process that turns the past into a nightmare, the present into a repetitive cycle of re-enactment, and the future into a terminal illness, the impact of chronic strain on an organization is insidious. As seemingly logical reactions to difficult situations pile upon each other, no one is able to truly perceive the fundamentally skewed and post-traumatic basic assumptions upon which that logic is built. As an earthquake can cause the foundations of a building to become unstable, even while the building still stands, apparently intact, so too does chronic repetitive stress or sudden traumatic stress destabilize the cognitive and affective foundations of shared meaning that is necessary for a group to function and stay whole. The goal of this book is a practical one: to provide the beginnings of a coherent framework for organizational staff and leaders to more effectively provide trauma-informed care for their clients by becoming trauma-sensitive themselves. This means becoming sensitive to the ways in which all human beings and human systems are impacted by individual and collective exposure to overwhelming stress.Less
This book describes what happens to human service delivery programs under the impact of unrelenting stress and multiple losses. Never perfect places of safety in the first place, many social services of every size, shape, and variety are collapsing under over thirty years of system fragmentation even while public costs have escalated dramatically. The result is that important places of refuge–of sanctuary–for the children, adults, and families who have been exposed to the greatest amount of adversity and trauma, are struggling to provide even the most minimally adequate services. We believe that at this point, our social service network is functioning as a trauma-organized system still largely unaware of the multiple ways in which adaptation to chronic stress has created a state of dysfunction that in many cases virtually prohibits the recovery of the individual clients who are the source of the underlying and original organizational missions, while damaging many of the people who work within it. Just as the encroachment of trauma into the life of an individual client is an insidious process that turns the past into a nightmare, the present into a repetitive cycle of re-enactment, and the future into a terminal illness, the impact of chronic strain on an organization is insidious. As seemingly logical reactions to difficult situations pile upon each other, no one is able to truly perceive the fundamentally skewed and post-traumatic basic assumptions upon which that logic is built. As an earthquake can cause the foundations of a building to become unstable, even while the building still stands, apparently intact, so too does chronic repetitive stress or sudden traumatic stress destabilize the cognitive and affective foundations of shared meaning that is necessary for a group to function and stay whole. The goal of this book is a practical one: to provide the beginnings of a coherent framework for organizational staff and leaders to more effectively provide trauma-informed care for their clients by becoming trauma-sensitive themselves. This means becoming sensitive to the ways in which all human beings and human systems are impacted by individual and collective exposure to overwhelming stress.
Kevin Hollenbeck and David Pavelchek
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- December 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190646059
- eISBN:
- 9780190646073
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190646059.003.0013
- Subject:
- Social Work, Research and Evaluation, Social Policy
Every four years, the Washington State Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board (WTECB) estimates the net impacts of the state’s primary workforce development programs on individuals’ ...
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Every four years, the Washington State Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board (WTECB) estimates the net impacts of the state’s primary workforce development programs on individuals’ labor market experiences. This chapter exploits the fact that precisely the same methodology and data sources were used the last three times these net impacts were estimated to gauge the influence of the business cycle on labor market outcomes for clients of these programs. That administrative data is used to test six hypotheses about potential effects. The overall empirical findings are consistent with a procyclical effect, although a larger investment per client attenuates that relationship. Unexpectedly, programs that serve youth tend to be especially prone to volatility from the business cycle. The chapter argues that such findings are important in helping policymakers and program practitioners understand the impact of the business cycle on client outcomes.Less
Every four years, the Washington State Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board (WTECB) estimates the net impacts of the state’s primary workforce development programs on individuals’ labor market experiences. This chapter exploits the fact that precisely the same methodology and data sources were used the last three times these net impacts were estimated to gauge the influence of the business cycle on labor market outcomes for clients of these programs. That administrative data is used to test six hypotheses about potential effects. The overall empirical findings are consistent with a procyclical effect, although a larger investment per client attenuates that relationship. Unexpectedly, programs that serve youth tend to be especially prone to volatility from the business cycle. The chapter argues that such findings are important in helping policymakers and program practitioners understand the impact of the business cycle on client outcomes.
