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Record W7101418944 · doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckaf161.1423

Supporting a national public health workforce in obtaining core competencies

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Bibliographic record

VenueEuropean Journal of Public Health · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicPublic Health Policies and Education
Canadian institutionsMcMaster University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCore competencyWorkforcePublic healthCompetence (human resources)Workforce developmentPublic health informaticsRelevance (law)

Abstract

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Abstract The Core Competencies for Public Health in Canada: Release 2.0 are the knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviors expected of all individuals working in any public health role, at any level, in Canada. The original competencies, released in 2008, recently underwent modernization, resulting in an updated set of 65 competencies across 10 categories, with applicability to public health in diverse countries and contexts. To support the development of these competencies across the public health workforce, ongoing professional development and workforce training will be needed. To support the public health community in achieving the modernized core competencies, the National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools (NCCMT) developed a curated list of learning resources mapped to the competency statements. An environmental scan was conducted to identify online courses, learning modules and workshops relevant to public health, and the Core Competencies for Public Health in Canada. These resources were then mapped to each of the competency statements. A web-based tool was developed, allowing users to quickly identify appropriate capacity-building resources related to specific competency categories or statements. This resource provides public health users with accessible opportunities for advancement toward achieving each core competency. A curated list of learning opportunities and resources to support competence achievement was developed to provide public health professionals with opportunities to build knowledge and skills toward each core competency. Rather than a comprehensive list of all available resources, resources were selected based on their accessibility, directness to the competency, and relevance to public health practice. The NCCMT's core competency self-assessment and curated resources list support public health professionals in achieving each core competency. Together, these resources support the advancements of quality and equitability of public health in Canada. Key messages • Core competency resources support achieving each core competency, to advance public health in Canada. • The Canadian public health core competencies and supporting resources are applicable to public health practice around the world.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.019
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.030
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.464
Threshold uncertainty score0.923

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0190.030
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.002
Science and technology studies0.0060.001
Scholarly communication0.0050.003
Open science0.0020.008
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0130.004

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.337
GPT teacher head0.525
Teacher spread0.188 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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