Public Health Systems
Plan, design, and implement policies focusing on assessing, and improving the overall public health systems
Type
Domain
Competency Area
Public Health
Levels
Understands various facets of public health systems
Aware of Essential Public Health Services (Revised, 2020) framework
Understands aspects of health administration
Understands health economics and its potential contribution to decision-making in the health sector
Coordinates the resources of health care institutions, social service organizations, public safety personnel, or other agencies to enhance the community health
Applies context to existing practices
Monitors public health status to identify and solve community health problems
Understands health economics methodologies and application to the evaluation of public health interventions
Prepares plan and reactions to community health risks
Designs public health policy instruments
Designs public health interventions
Conducts simulation activities on various administrative levels of the public health system
Prepares precautionary community health reports which include problem explanations, analyses, alternate solutions, and suggestions.
Mobilizes community partnerships and action to identify and solve public health problems
Develops policies designs that support individual and community health efforts
Evaluates effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services
Carries out Health Equity Audits and Health Impact Assessments
Contributes to global sustainable public health goals
Promotes effective health systems governance to develop and implement strategies towards achieving UHC by 2030
Recommends risk reduction actions or other public health interventions
Commissions appropriate and effective health and wellbeing initiatives
Contributes to the UN global public health agenda
Contributes to the five key areas of health policy and practice, namely health systems approach, risk assessments, the WHO/UNISDR/HPA Disaster Risk Management fact sheets, chronic disease and disasters, and mental health impacts following disasters