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Report Summary
This is a report to the Ministry of Health from the Public Health Association (PHA) in association with a coalition of the public health disciplines; Health Promotion Forum of New Zealand, Māori Community Health Workers, New Zealand Institute of Environmental Health, Public Health Nurses Section of New Zealand Nurses Organisation. The Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine has assisted this process greatly.
Generic competencies for public health
This report presents a set of generic public health competencies (GPHCs) for public health, which provide a minimum baseline set of competencies that is common to all public health roles across all public health sectors and disciplines. The GPHCs provide a ’whole of sector’ view of the workforce development required to meet the public health aims of improving the overall health status of the population and reducing health inequalities. They are intended for use by practitioners, managers, policy makers and analysts, educators and trainers, and funders and planners.
Te Tiriti o Waitangi
The principles of participation, partnership and protection provide an overarching framework for the GPHCs and the priority of addressing the disparities that continue to exist between Māori and non-Māori.
Section One
Definition of public health
Where do the GPHCs fit?
What are GPHCs?
Why have GPHCs?
What is the relationship between the GPHCs and discipline-specific competencies?
What benefits will the GPHCs have for the health of the public?
What benefits will the GPHCs have for people who work in public health?
What benefits will the GPHCs have for public health organisations?
What are the risks of introducing GPHCs?
Section Two
This section of the document outlines the GPHCs that all public health practitioners’ will require in order to work within the field of public health. The GPHCs are organised into twelve topic areas. Each topic comprises a set of competency statements. The topics are further divided into the two broad sub-sets of Public Health Knowledge and Public Health Practice.
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