Corinne J. Wigington is with Cherokee Nation Businesses supporting the Center for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA. Laura T. Colman, Robyn K. Sobelson, and Andrea C. Young are with the Center for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Am J Public Health. 2019 Sep;109(9):1202-1204. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2019.305156. Epub 2019 Jul 18.
To describe the career trajectories of 1 cohort of US Public Health Associate Program (PHAP) alumni over 3 years since completing PHAP. We distributed a Web-based survey at 3 time points between 2014 and 2017 (response rate = 76%). We calculated descriptive statistics in SPSS. At all time points, most alumni were employed. Of those, the percentage employed in public health was 100% at program completion, 86% at year 1, and 68% at year 3. Most alumni were employed in public health jobs at each time point. At the 3-year mark, approximately a third of the alumni had left public health employment, which is in line with documented rates of turnover within the broader public health workforce. Service learning programs like PHAP are effective at recruiting early career professionals into public health. The extent to which PHAP is effective at retaining workers in public health after the program appears most promising immediately following the program or in the short term after the program concludes. The extent to which workers are retained in the longer term requires further study.
描述自完成美国公共卫生助理计划 (PHAP) 以来的 3 年中，1 批 PHAP 校友的职业轨迹。我们在 2014 年至 2017 年期间分 3 个时间点通过网络调查（响应率为 76%）。我们使用 SPSS 计算了描述性统计数据。在所有时间点，大多数校友都有工作。其中，在项目完成时，有 100%的校友在公共卫生领域就业，在第 1 年为 86%，在第 3 年为 68%。在每个时间点，大多数校友都在公共卫生岗位工作。在 3 年的时间里，大约三分之一的校友已经离开公共卫生就业，这与更广泛的公共卫生劳动力中记录的人员流动率一致。像 PHAP 这样的服务学习计划在招募早期职业专业人员进入公共卫生领域方面非常有效。在项目结束后，PHAP 在公共卫生领域留住工作人员的效果如何，在项目结束后不久或短期内最为明显。在更长期内留住工作人员的程度需要进一步研究。
