Boulton Matthew L, Beck Angela J, Coronado Fátima, Merrill Jacqueline A, Friedman Charles P, Stamas George D, Tyus Nadra, Sellers Katie, Moore Jean, Tilson Hugh H, Leep Carolyn J
Department of Epidemiology University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Center of Excellence in Public Health Workforce Studies University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Department of Health Management and Policy University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Center of Excellence in Public Health Workforce Studies University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Department of Health Management and Policy University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Am J Prev Med. 2014 Nov;47(5 Suppl 3):S314-23. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2014.07.015. Epub 2014 Oct 16.
Thoroughly characterizing and continuously monitoring the public health workforce is necessary for ensuring capacity to deliver public health services. A prerequisite for this is to develop a standardized methodology for classifying public health workers, permitting valid comparisons across agencies and over time, which does not exist for the public health workforce. An expert working group, all of whom are authors on this paper, was convened during 2012-2014 to develop a public health workforce taxonomy. The purpose of the taxonomy is to facilitate the systematic characterization of all public health workers while delineating a set of minimum data elements to be used in workforce surveys. The taxonomy will improve the comparability across surveys, assist with estimating duplicate counting of workers, provide a framework for describing the size and composition of the workforce, and address other challenges to workforce enumeration. The taxonomy consists of 12 axes, with each axis describing a key characteristic of public health workers. Within each axis are multiple categories, and sometimes subcategories, that further define that worker characteristic. The workforce taxonomy axes are occupation, workplace setting, employer, education, licensure, certification, job tasks, program area, public health specialization area, funding source, condition of employment, and demographics. The taxonomy is not intended to serve as a replacement for occupational classifications but rather is a tool for systematically categorizing worker characteristics. The taxonomy will continue to evolve as organizations implement it and recommend ways to improve this tool for more accurate workforce data collection.
全面描述并持续监测公共卫生工作队伍对于确保提供公共卫生服务的能力至关重要。为此，需要制定一种标准化方法来对公共卫生工作者进行分类，以便能够在不同机构之间以及随时间进行有效的比较，但目前公共卫生工作队伍尚不存在这样的方法。一个专家工作组（本文所有作者均为该工作组成员）于2012 - 2014年期间召开会议，以制定公共卫生工作队伍分类法。该分类法的目的是便于系统地描述所有公共卫生工作者，同时划定一套将用于劳动力调查的最低数据元素。该分类法将提高不同调查之间的可比性，有助于估计工作者的重复计数，提供一个描述劳动力规模和构成的框架，并应对劳动力普查中的其他挑战。该分类法由12个轴组成，每个轴描述公共卫生工作者的一个关键特征。在每个轴内有多个类别，有时还有子类别，这些进一步定义了工作者的特征。劳动力分类法的轴包括职业、工作场所、雇主、教育程度、执照、认证、工作任务、项目领域、公共卫生专业领域、资金来源、就业条件和人口统计学特征。该分类法并非旨在取代职业分类，而是一种用于系统地对工作者特征进行分类的工具。随着各组织实施该分类法并建议改进此工具以进行更准确的劳动力数据收集，该分类法将不断发展。
