Ransom Montrece McNeill, Yassine Brianne
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
Cherokee Nation Assurance Contractor, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
J Soc Behav Health Sci. 2019;13(1):128-148. doi: 10.5590/JSBHS.2019.13.1.08.
As public health promotion and protection become increasingly complex and integrated into various fields, public health law is emerging as an important tool for public health professionals. To ensure that public health professionals are effectively trained in public health law principles and theories, educators, trainers, and others who develop educational curricula should integrate public health law-related competencies into their training and workforce development efforts. This article provides three competency models developed by the Public Health Law Program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: (a) the public health emergency law competency model, (b) the public health law competency model, and (c) the legal epidemiology competency model. These competency models provide a foundation upon which public health law curricula can be developed for governmental, nongovernmental, and academic public health practitioners. Such standardization of public health law curricula will ameliorate not only the training, but also selection and evaluation of public health practitioners, as well as better align public health training with national public health efforts.
随着公共卫生促进与保护工作变得日益复杂并融入各个领域，公共卫生法正成为公共卫生专业人员的一项重要工具。为确保公共卫生专业人员在公共卫生法原则和理论方面得到有效培训，教育工作者、培训师以及其他制定教育课程的人员应将与公共卫生法相关的能力纳入其培训和劳动力发展工作中。本文介绍了美国疾病控制与预防中心公共卫生法项目制定的三种能力模型：（a）公共卫生应急法能力模型，（b）公共卫生法能力模型，以及（c）法律流行病学能力模型。这些能力模型为政府、非政府和学术公共卫生从业者制定公共卫生法课程提供了基础。公共卫生法课程的这种标准化不仅将改善培训，还将改善公共卫生从业者的选拔和评估，并使公共卫生培训更好地与国家公共卫生工作保持一致。
