University of Iceland & Landspitali, The National University Hospital of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Public Health Nutr. 2012 Nov;15(11):1999-2004. doi: 10.1017/S1368980012003357. Epub 2012 Jul 16.
To assess and develop a consensus among a European panel of public health nutrition workforce stakeholders (academics and employers) regarding core functions required for effective public health nutrition practice.
A modified Delphi study involving data from two rounds of questionnaires administered among a panel of public health nutrition workforce stakeholders.
Europe.
A panel of fifty-three public health nutrition development stakeholders, including thirty-three academics and twenty employers, sampled from eighteen European countries.
Panellists rated 50 % (19/38) of the initially listed functions as core (i.e. without which public health capacity is limited), using a majority cut-off (>50 %). Out of the nineteen core functions seven were categorised under the heading Intervention management, emphasising high agreement on the importance of managing interventions in public health nutrition work. Only one of the identified core public health nutrition functions was rated differently between academics and employers, suggesting consistent identification of core functions between stakeholder groups.
This consensus on core functions of the public health nutrition workforce in Europe can be used to promote a consistent understanding of the role and value of public health nutritionists as a discrete disciplinary sub-specialty of the public health workforce. The convergence of opinions of academics and employers, as well as comparison with previous international studies, indicates that there is a set of core public health nutrition functions transferable between countries that can be used as a benchmark to guide further development of the public health nutrition workforce in Europe.
评估并在一个欧洲公共卫生营养工作者利益相关者（学者和雇主）小组中达成共识，确定有效实施公共卫生营养实践所需的核心职能。
采用改良 Delphi 研究法，对来自 18 个欧洲国家的公共卫生营养工作者利益相关者小组进行两轮问卷调查。
欧洲。
一个由 53 名公共卫生营养发展利益相关者组成的小组，包括 33 名学者和 20 名雇主。
专家小组成员使用多数票 (>50%) 对最初列出的 38 项职能中的 50%（19/38）进行了核心职能评估（即没有这些职能，公共卫生能力就会受限）。在 19 项核心职能中，有 7 项属于干预管理范畴，强调了管理公共卫生营养工作中干预措施的重要性。在确定的 19 项核心公共卫生营养职能中，只有一项在学者和雇主之间的评价存在差异，这表明利益相关者群体对核心职能的识别是一致的。
欧洲公共卫生营养工作者核心职能的这一共识可用于促进对公共卫生营养学家作为公共卫生工作者离散专业子学科的角色和价值的一致理解。学者和雇主意见的趋同以及与以前的国际研究比较表明，存在一组可在国家之间转移的核心公共卫生营养职能，可作为指导欧洲公共卫生营养工作者进一步发展的基准。
