Collaboration for Evidence, Research and Impact in Public Health (CERIPH), School of Public Health, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia.
Australian Health Promotion Association (AHPA), Keswick, SA, Australia.
Health Promot J Austr. 2019 Apr;30(2):281-284. doi: 10.1002/hpja.32. Epub 2018 Feb 20.
Building health promotion workforce capacity and infrastructure is critical to ensure a strong evidence base for effective interventions, sustainability and ultimately positive health outcomes for the community. Accordingly, there is a need to build workforce capacity by providing pathways into the health promotion sector with opportunities for core health promotion competency development. Currently, there is a lack of transition programs and graduate-specific positions in health promotion.
This study presents a descriptive case study of a 20-year health promotion scholarships program administered by the Australian Health Promotion Association (WA Branch) and Healthway for health promotion graduates and Aboriginal health workers. Scholarship recipients and supervisors reported on demographics, projects and perspectives on the value of participating in the program.
More than 2 million dollars has been invested to provide health promotion career pathways in WA via 100 scholarships. Key themes relating to program value included as follows: practical application of theoretical concepts; reciprocity; and building skills and capacity in both recipients and supervisors.
The scholarships program results in a number of benefits to the recipient, host organisation and the overall health promotion sector and is an example of long-term investment to build health promotion capacity with potential for replication. SO WHAT?: Investment in competency-driven health promotion scholarships to create dedicated health promotion career pathways for new practitioners contributes to the capacity of an effective health promotion workforce.
建设健康促进劳动力队伍和基础设施对于确保有效的干预措施有坚实的证据基础、可持续性以及最终为社区带来积极的健康结果至关重要。因此，需要通过提供进入健康促进领域的途径，并为核心健康促进能力发展提供机会来增强劳动力队伍的能力。目前，健康促进领域缺乏过渡项目和针对研究生的职位。
本研究对澳大利亚健康促进协会（西澳分会）和健康之道为健康促进毕业生和原住民健康工作者管理的为期 20 年的健康促进奖学金计划进行了描述性案例研究。奖学金获得者和主管人员报告了人口统计数据、项目以及参与该计划的价值的观点。
通过 100 项奖学金，在西澳投资了超过 200 万美元，为健康促进职业发展提供了途径。与该计划价值相关的主要主题包括：理论概念的实际应用；互惠；以及在受助者和主管人员中建立技能和能力。
奖学金计划为受助者、主办组织和整个健康促进部门带来了许多好处，是为新从业者建立专门的健康促进职业途径以增强有效健康促进劳动力队伍的能力进行长期投资的一个范例。那么，这意味着什么呢？投资于以能力为导向的健康促进奖学金，为新从业者创造专门的健康促进职业途径，有助于增强有效的健康促进劳动力队伍的能力。
