Public health nutrition workforce development in seven European countries: constraining and enabling factors
OBJECTIVES: Little is known about current public health nutrition workforce development in Europe. The present study aimed to understand constraining and enabling factors to workforce development in seven European countries. DESIGN: A qualitative study comprised of semi-structured face-to-face inter...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:10271757 2023-10-01T03:56:57+02:00 Public health nutrition workforce development in seven European countries: constraining and enabling factors Kugelberg, Susanna Jonsdottir, Svandis Faxelid, Elisabeth Jönsson, Kristina Fox, Ann Thorsdottir, Inga Yngve, Agneta 2012-08-16 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10271757/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22894796 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980012003874 en eng Cambridge University Press http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10271757/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22894796 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1368980012003874 © The Authors 2012 Public Health Nutr Hot Topic – Workforce development Text 2012 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980012003874 2023-09-03T00:53:13Z OBJECTIVES: Little is known about current public health nutrition workforce development in Europe. The present study aimed to understand constraining and enabling factors to workforce development in seven European countries. DESIGN: A qualitative study comprised of semi-structured face-to-face interviews was conducted and content analysis was used to analyse the transcribed interview data. SETTING: The study was carried out in Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the UK. SUBJECTS: Sixty key informants participated in the study. RESULTS: There are constraining and enabling factors for public health nutrition workforce development. The main constraining factors relate to the lack of a supportive policy environment, fragmented organizational structures and a workforce that is not cohesive enough to implement public health nutrition strategic initiatives. Enabling factors were identified as the presence of skilled and dedicated individuals who assume roles as leaders and change agents. CONCLUSIONS: There is a need to strengthen coordination between policy and implementation of programmes which may operate across the national to local spectrum. Public health organizations are advised to further define aims and objectives relevant to public health nutrition. Leaders and agents of change will play important roles in fostering intersectorial partnerships, advocating for policy change, establishing professional competencies and developing education and training programmes. Text Iceland PubMed Central (PMC) Public Health Nutrition 15 11 1989 1998 |
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OBJECTIVES: Little is known about current public health nutrition workforce development in Europe. The present study aimed to understand constraining and enabling factors to workforce development in seven European countries. DESIGN: A qualitative study comprised of semi-structured face-to-face interviews was conducted and content analysis was used to analyse the transcribed interview data. SETTING: The study was carried out in Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the UK. SUBJECTS: Sixty key informants participated in the study. RESULTS: There are constraining and enabling factors for public health nutrition workforce development. The main constraining factors relate to the lack of a supportive policy environment, fragmented organizational structures and a workforce that is not cohesive enough to implement public health nutrition strategic initiatives. Enabling factors were identified as the presence of skilled and dedicated individuals who assume roles as leaders and change agents. CONCLUSIONS: There is a need to strengthen coordination between policy and implementation of programmes which may operate across the national to local spectrum. Public health organizations are advised to further define aims and objectives relevant to public health nutrition. Leaders and agents of change will play important roles in fostering intersectorial partnerships, advocating for policy change, establishing professional competencies and developing education and training programmes. |
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Public health nutrition workforce development in seven European countries: constraining and enabling factors |
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Public health nutrition workforce development in seven European countries: constraining and enabling factors |
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Public health nutrition workforce development in seven European countries: constraining and enabling factors |
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Public health nutrition workforce development in seven European countries: constraining and enabling factors |
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public health nutrition workforce development in seven european countries: constraining and enabling factors |
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10271757/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22894796 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980012003874 |
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