Introduction: Periodontal diseases are one of the most prevalent oral diseases affecting more than 50% of Indian population. Untreated periodontitis is a major cause of tooth loss. In rural population of Tumkur (Karnataka), people live in closely knit large joint families. Partial edentulism at early age could affect marriages, performance at work, criticism from friends and family members and embarrassment at social gatherings. Objective: We started a cross-sectional study, for assessing the awareness about periodontal diseases and the psychosocial consequences of tooth loss due to periodontal diseases in rural population who visited Sri Siddhartha Dental College. Methodology: The study involved completion of a predesigned structured questionnaire formatted according psycho-social structure of Indian traditions and culture. It included multiple option questions to be filled up by patients. We screened 799 patients in 18-65 age groups. Results: The awareness about aggressive periodontitis was less, overall awareness was higher. 88% patients felt; they would have prevented the disease if there was access to economical dental care. 68% patients rated their oral health as bad, 59% did not want to marry partially edentulous person. 83% experienced criticism, 72% felt lower level of confidence and 77% felt quality of life being affected due to partial edentulism. Conclusion: Partial edentulism due to periodontal disease, especially in young patients, has high psychosocial impact on quality of life. Due to limited replacement options in these poor patients, prevention would give higher quality of life. *Correspondence to: Vaibhavi Joshipura, Intedent Healthcare Private Limited, India, Tel: 9880105198; E-mail: vaibhavi_joshipura@yahoo.co.in
{"title":"Psychosocial impact of partial or complete edentulism due to periodontal diseases among rural population of Tumkur district of Karnataka","authors":"P. G., Subbaiah Sk, B. A, Joshipura V","doi":"10.15761/pmch.1000124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15761/pmch.1000124","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: Periodontal diseases are one of the most prevalent oral diseases affecting more than 50% of Indian population. Untreated periodontitis is a major cause of tooth loss. In rural population of Tumkur (Karnataka), people live in closely knit large joint families. Partial edentulism at early age could affect marriages, performance at work, criticism from friends and family members and embarrassment at social gatherings. Objective: We started a cross-sectional study, for assessing the awareness about periodontal diseases and the psychosocial consequences of tooth loss due to periodontal diseases in rural population who visited Sri Siddhartha Dental College. Methodology: The study involved completion of a predesigned structured questionnaire formatted according psycho-social structure of Indian traditions and culture. It included multiple option questions to be filled up by patients. We screened 799 patients in 18-65 age groups. Results: The awareness about aggressive periodontitis was less, overall awareness was higher. 88% patients felt; they would have prevented the disease if there was access to economical dental care. 68% patients rated their oral health as bad, 59% did not want to marry partially edentulous person. 83% experienced criticism, 72% felt lower level of confidence and 77% felt quality of life being affected due to partial edentulism. Conclusion: Partial edentulism due to periodontal disease, especially in young patients, has high psychosocial impact on quality of life. Due to limited replacement options in these poor patients, prevention would give higher quality of life. *Correspondence to: Vaibhavi Joshipura, Intedent Healthcare Private Limited, India, Tel: 9880105198; E-mail: vaibhavi_joshipura@yahoo.co.in","PeriodicalId":74491,"journal":{"name":"Preventive medicine and community health","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67505529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
There is another peculiar observation with regard to PK deficiency: the large majority of thrombotic events concern the arterial system. As the matter of fact, the only venous thrombosis occurred in two sisters who, besides PK deficiency, showed also severe obesity [13]. On the contrary, these is no similar striking difference in FXII deficiency. It seems, in other words, that arterial thrombosis is probably associated with PK deficiency. This action seems mediated by the hypertension which has been frequently found in patients with PK deficiency [6].
{"title":"Contact phase of blood coagulation and thrombosis and hypertension: The conundrum has to be clarified","authors":"A. Girolami, S. Ferrari, E. Cosi","doi":"10.15761/pmch.1000134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15761/pmch.1000134","url":null,"abstract":"There is another peculiar observation with regard to PK deficiency: the large majority of thrombotic events concern the arterial system. As the matter of fact, the only venous thrombosis occurred in two sisters who, besides PK deficiency, showed also severe obesity [13]. On the contrary, these is no similar striking difference in FXII deficiency. It seems, in other words, that arterial thrombosis is probably associated with PK deficiency. This action seems mediated by the hypertension which has been frequently found in patients with PK deficiency [6].","PeriodicalId":74491,"journal":{"name":"Preventive medicine and community health","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67506121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Objectives: The present study analyses the value of intraoperative cholangiography (IOC) performed in all patients during 22 years of surgical activity in three different Institutions and, as a result a continuous scientific concern on the matter, we developed a set of criteria that are analysed and discussed. Materials and methods: We studied the patients subjected to laparoscopic cholecystectomy in three hospitals between January 1995 and December 2017. A group of patients were analysed, IOC was performed in all cases. Results: we had a positive results of common bile duct stones (CBDS) unsuspected in more than 10%, a finding that changed surgical management of patient after IOC. This procedure required a median period of 10 minutes and there were no complications caused by IOC. Conclusions: Intraoperative cholangiography performed routinely represents an important tool in diagnosing unsuspected Common Bile Duct Stones (CBDS) during LC. This attitude has prevented further surgical treatment for all patients with asymptomatic biliary calculosis. *Correspondence to: Lacitignola Sebastiano, Contrada Sicarico 181/A, 70043 Monopoli , Italy, Tel: +39-330-840630; E-mail: lacitignola@libero.it Received: November 02, 2019; Accepted: November 24, 2019; Published: November 28, 2019 Introduction The asymptomatic stones of the common bile duct (CBD) represents, even today, a considerable challenge for the surgeon despite the progress made both in endoscopy and laparoscopy. Just over 10 years ago, 10% of patients with symptomatic calculosis and 15% of those with acute cholecystitis had stones in the common bile duct. With the laparoscopic procedure the patients had the advantage of a more immediate and faster approach to cholecystectomy with a consequent reduction of choledocholithiasis. Even when all procedures are feasible, there are some techniques preferred to others. If the patient had cholecystectomy it is unanimous opinion that the choledochal lithiasis must be treated endoscopically through endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) with Endoscopic Sphincterotomy (ES) reserving surgery in case of failure (5-10%) [1]. If the gallbladder is “in situ” the treatment is controversial i.e. ERCP followed by laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC). Another possibility is to perform the cholecystectomy and to remove the CBD stones through the laparoscopy or to abandon the stones with subsequent ERCP after LC. Many surgeons agree with these options in relation to their personal experience as well as the various protocols to be followed. Our personal tendency is to treat the CBDS in a single time using all the possible surgical strategies in our possession and this our attitude is also confirmed by the positive results obtained over the years. Materials and methods From January 1995 to December 2017 we were collected the data of 8918 patients undergoing LC for symptomatic lithiasis in three different Institutions. Routine Intraoperative Cholangiography (IO
{"title":"Routine intraoperative cholangiography during laparoscopic cholecystectomy","authors":"L. Sebastiano, Massafra Roberto, M. Fabio","doi":"10.15761/pmch.1000137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15761/pmch.1000137","url":null,"abstract":"Objectives: The present study analyses the value of intraoperative cholangiography (IOC) performed in all patients during 22 years of surgical activity in three different Institutions and, as a result a continuous scientific concern on the matter, we developed a set of criteria that are analysed and discussed. Materials and methods: We studied the patients subjected to laparoscopic cholecystectomy in three hospitals between January 1995 and December 2017. A group of patients were analysed, IOC was performed in all cases. Results: we had a positive results of common bile duct stones (CBDS) unsuspected in more than 10%, a finding that changed surgical management of patient after IOC. This procedure required a median period of 10 minutes and there were no complications caused by IOC. Conclusions: Intraoperative cholangiography performed routinely represents an important tool in diagnosing unsuspected Common Bile Duct Stones (CBDS) during LC. This attitude has prevented further surgical treatment for all patients with asymptomatic biliary calculosis. *Correspondence to: Lacitignola Sebastiano, Contrada Sicarico 181/A, 70043 Monopoli , Italy, Tel: +39-330-840630; E-mail: lacitignola@libero.it Received: November 02, 2019; Accepted: November 24, 2019; Published: November 28, 2019 Introduction The asymptomatic stones of the common bile duct (CBD) represents, even today, a considerable challenge for the surgeon despite the progress made both in endoscopy and laparoscopy. Just over 10 years ago, 10% of patients with symptomatic calculosis and 15% of those with acute cholecystitis had stones in the common bile duct. With the laparoscopic procedure the patients had the advantage of a more immediate and faster approach to cholecystectomy with a consequent reduction of choledocholithiasis. Even when all procedures are feasible, there are some techniques preferred to others. If the patient had cholecystectomy it is unanimous opinion that the choledochal lithiasis must be treated endoscopically through endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) with Endoscopic Sphincterotomy (ES) reserving surgery in case of failure (5-10%) [1]. If the gallbladder is “in situ” the treatment is controversial i.e. ERCP followed by laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC). Another possibility is to perform the cholecystectomy and to remove the CBD stones through the laparoscopy or to abandon the stones with subsequent ERCP after LC. Many surgeons agree with these options in relation to their personal experience as well as the various protocols to be followed. Our personal tendency is to treat the CBDS in a single time using all the possible surgical strategies in our possession and this our attitude is also confirmed by the positive results obtained over the years. Materials and methods From January 1995 to December 2017 we were collected the data of 8918 patients undergoing LC for symptomatic lithiasis in three different Institutions. Routine Intraoperative Cholangiography (IO","PeriodicalId":74491,"journal":{"name":"Preventive medicine and community health","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67506190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Sacco, N. Morici, Dario Brunelli, G. Viola, F. Oliva
{"title":"Unmet needs in Italian cardiology: acute cardiovascular syndrome in the new multiethnic society","authors":"A. Sacco, N. Morici, Dario Brunelli, G. Viola, F. Oliva","doi":"10.15761/pmch.1000119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15761/pmch.1000119","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74491,"journal":{"name":"Preventive medicine and community health","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67504158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"My retirement – An approach","authors":"Herbert Y Reynolds","doi":"10.15761/pmch.1000131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15761/pmch.1000131","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74491,"journal":{"name":"Preventive medicine and community health","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67506062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nursing student engagement fundamentally contributes toward quality student advancement and future quality nursing care. This research evaluates students’ perception of their nursing education and their commitment toward practice. The findings provide a background for the development of solid nursing practices with high scores of engagement, in both class and clinicals. The scores for stress management and coping were the lowest and further point to a greater learning need in this area. Currently doing very well with the learning content, they simultaneously are suffering with challenging emotional responses to this complex education. Stress management, coping, and resiliency sessions are now acutely highlighted as extremely important and necessary (for high quality nursing students’ long-term emotional and cognitive wellness). Students can be functioning at higher emotional levels longer with this supportive reinforcement. When this emotion protection is developed, and implemented, students will provide a stronger and more resilient future nursing workforce. *Correspondence to: Kathleen Hudson, University of Texas at Tyler, Longview University Center, USA, Tel: 903-240-7040, E-mail: KHudson@uttyler.edu
{"title":"Nursing student engagement: Researching the journey and its potential impact on transitions to practice","authors":"K. Hudson, Zhaomin He, R. Carrasco","doi":"10.15761/pmch.1000121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15761/pmch.1000121","url":null,"abstract":"Nursing student engagement fundamentally contributes toward quality student advancement and future quality nursing care. This research evaluates students’ perception of their nursing education and their commitment toward practice. The findings provide a background for the development of solid nursing practices with high scores of engagement, in both class and clinicals. The scores for stress management and coping were the lowest and further point to a greater learning need in this area. Currently doing very well with the learning content, they simultaneously are suffering with challenging emotional responses to this complex education. Stress management, coping, and resiliency sessions are now acutely highlighted as extremely important and necessary (for high quality nursing students’ long-term emotional and cognitive wellness). Students can be functioning at higher emotional levels longer with this supportive reinforcement. When this emotion protection is developed, and implemented, students will provide a stronger and more resilient future nursing workforce. *Correspondence to: Kathleen Hudson, University of Texas at Tyler, Longview University Center, USA, Tel: 903-240-7040, E-mail: KHudson@uttyler.edu","PeriodicalId":74491,"journal":{"name":"Preventive medicine and community health","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67505808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. V. Schayck, Bo Van Engelen, T. Thisted, M. Kalnik
Smoking and tobacco use continue to be the largest preventable causes of death. Although there are current pharmaceutical and behavioural therapies, the one-year sustained quit rate of these therapies is only 20-25% at best. Recently, an alternative biotherapeutic strategy has been proposed: enzymatic degradation of nicotine in the bloodstream preventing accumulation in the brain. The bacterial enzyme NicA2 oxidizes nicotine into pseudo-oxynicotine, a non-addictive compound already found in smokers. Proof-of-concept animal studies have shown that NicA2 can rapidly reduce the levels of nicotine accumulating in the brain after intravenous nicotine dosing, and NicA2 has shown to have efficacy in a continuous nicotine access self-administration rat model. Enzymatic elimination of nicotine upon smoke inhalation to combat tobacco addiction is an innovative therapeutic concept. However, it is in line with recent clinical studies demonstrating that reduction in nicotine content in cigarettes (to 2.5% of normal levels) lead to significant reduction in the number of cigarettes smoked and higher smoking cessation rates compared to a control group smoking normal nicotine level cigarettes. Enzymatic degradation of nicotine appears to be more potent than nicotine-specific antibodies or vaccines for reducing nicotine distribution to brain, and if this proves to be the case in humans, it could also be more effective for enhancing smoking cessation rates and succeed where nicotine vaccines have failed thus far. The work reviewed in this article constitutes promising initial steps towards an urgently needed new effective treatment strategy in smoking cessation therapy. *Correspondence to: van Schayk Onno, Maastricht University, Faculty of Health Medicine & Lifesciences, Maastricht, Netherlands, E-mail: onno.vanschayck@ maastrichtuniversity.nl Received: November 22, 2018; Accepted: December 14, 2018; Published: December 19, 2018 Introduction Smoking and tobacco use continue to be the largest preventable causes of death [1]. In 2015, approximately 6.4 million deaths were attributed to smoking worldwide. Although most smokers are aware of the health risks, smoking cessation is usually difficult to maintain. Current pharmacological therapies for smoking cessation combined with counselling have significant clinical effects compared to counselling alone [2]. However, only 20-25% of smokers remain abstinent for at least 1 year after treatment [3]. This fact means that new, more efficacious drugs need to be developed. Multiple meta-analyses have been conducted to investigate the pharmaceutical interventions for smoking cessation, and guidelines have been published by many organizations [2,4]. The first-line pharmacological therapy for smoking cessation are nicotine replacement products (patches, gums, inhalers, nasal sprays, tablets, and oral sprays). It evokes its effects by stimulating the nicotinic receptors in the ventral tegmental area of the brain releasing dopamine
{"title":"Nicotine degradation in smokers: will a new and potent enzymatic approach work where nicotine vaccines have failed?","authors":"C. V. Schayck, Bo Van Engelen, T. Thisted, M. Kalnik","doi":"10.15761/pmch.1000120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15761/pmch.1000120","url":null,"abstract":"Smoking and tobacco use continue to be the largest preventable causes of death. Although there are current pharmaceutical and behavioural therapies, the one-year sustained quit rate of these therapies is only 20-25% at best. Recently, an alternative biotherapeutic strategy has been proposed: enzymatic degradation of nicotine in the bloodstream preventing accumulation in the brain. The bacterial enzyme NicA2 oxidizes nicotine into pseudo-oxynicotine, a non-addictive compound already found in smokers. Proof-of-concept animal studies have shown that NicA2 can rapidly reduce the levels of nicotine accumulating in the brain after intravenous nicotine dosing, and NicA2 has shown to have efficacy in a continuous nicotine access self-administration rat model. Enzymatic elimination of nicotine upon smoke inhalation to combat tobacco addiction is an innovative therapeutic concept. However, it is in line with recent clinical studies demonstrating that reduction in nicotine content in cigarettes (to 2.5% of normal levels) lead to significant reduction in the number of cigarettes smoked and higher smoking cessation rates compared to a control group smoking normal nicotine level cigarettes. Enzymatic degradation of nicotine appears to be more potent than nicotine-specific antibodies or vaccines for reducing nicotine distribution to brain, and if this proves to be the case in humans, it could also be more effective for enhancing smoking cessation rates and succeed where nicotine vaccines have failed thus far. The work reviewed in this article constitutes promising initial steps towards an urgently needed new effective treatment strategy in smoking cessation therapy. *Correspondence to: van Schayk Onno, Maastricht University, Faculty of Health Medicine & Lifesciences, Maastricht, Netherlands, E-mail: onno.vanschayck@ maastrichtuniversity.nl Received: November 22, 2018; Accepted: December 14, 2018; Published: December 19, 2018 Introduction Smoking and tobacco use continue to be the largest preventable causes of death [1]. In 2015, approximately 6.4 million deaths were attributed to smoking worldwide. Although most smokers are aware of the health risks, smoking cessation is usually difficult to maintain. Current pharmacological therapies for smoking cessation combined with counselling have significant clinical effects compared to counselling alone [2]. However, only 20-25% of smokers remain abstinent for at least 1 year after treatment [3]. This fact means that new, more efficacious drugs need to be developed. Multiple meta-analyses have been conducted to investigate the pharmaceutical interventions for smoking cessation, and guidelines have been published by many organizations [2,4]. The first-line pharmacological therapy for smoking cessation are nicotine replacement products (patches, gums, inhalers, nasal sprays, tablets, and oral sprays). It evokes its effects by stimulating the nicotinic receptors in the ventral tegmental area of the brain releasing dopamine","PeriodicalId":74491,"journal":{"name":"Preventive medicine and community health","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67505461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Received: September 01, 2019; Accepted: September 16, 2019; Published: September 20, 2019 Informing the public about Vitamin D, its benefits, particularly its protective effects against non-skeletal chronic illnesses such as that of cardiovascular and cancer effects remains challenging and confusing [1]. The recent Vitamin D and Omega-3 fatty acid (VITAL) study results, a Randomized Clinical Trial (RCT) [2] has further thrown the public in mistrusting vitamin D supplementation. I hear patients and practitioners alike stating: “vitamin D does not work” perhaps because they equate the negative findings of the VITAL study to mean that vitamin D (cholecalciferol) supplementation is not effective at all. Such misunderstanding could lead to stepping backwards from what the scientific society has long proven the science behind Vitamin D’s effects. Hence, the purpose of this commentary is to discuss weaknesses in the VITAL’s study that could assist healthcare practitioners’ hence, the population they serve on vitamin D supplementation.
{"title":"After VITAL study: Is Vitamin D supplementation necessary?","authors":"R. Sakamoto","doi":"10.15761/pmch.1000128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15761/pmch.1000128","url":null,"abstract":"Received: September 01, 2019; Accepted: September 16, 2019; Published: September 20, 2019 Informing the public about Vitamin D, its benefits, particularly its protective effects against non-skeletal chronic illnesses such as that of cardiovascular and cancer effects remains challenging and confusing [1]. The recent Vitamin D and Omega-3 fatty acid (VITAL) study results, a Randomized Clinical Trial (RCT) [2] has further thrown the public in mistrusting vitamin D supplementation. I hear patients and practitioners alike stating: “vitamin D does not work” perhaps because they equate the negative findings of the VITAL study to mean that vitamin D (cholecalciferol) supplementation is not effective at all. Such misunderstanding could lead to stepping backwards from what the scientific society has long proven the science behind Vitamin D’s effects. Hence, the purpose of this commentary is to discuss weaknesses in the VITAL’s study that could assist healthcare practitioners’ hence, the population they serve on vitamin D supplementation.","PeriodicalId":74491,"journal":{"name":"Preventive medicine and community health","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67505790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-06-01Epub Date: 2018-06-07DOI: 10.15761/PMCH.1000110
Alina L Flores, Kristina Risley, Kenneth Quintana
Thirty percent of federal public health employees were retirement eligible in September 2017. Further, at the state public health level, as indicated in the recent Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey (PH WINS), an estimated 25% of employees are planning to retire before 2020 with an additional 18% intending to leave their organizations within one year. Due to these workforce changes, there is an urgent need for public health organizations to examine how they are ensuring a talent pool from which leaders can emerge. As a large federal public health agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) faces the challenge of providing leadership development to staff. Factors were examined that agency leaders identified as key components of a leadership development program to transition scientific public health staff into supervisory leadership roles. While many factors contribute to leadership development, participants more often identified training, provision of opportunities, mentors, and identification of high potential employees as key components of a leadership develop program. With the need to develop organizational leaders to be ready when vacancies become available, findings from this study can inform the development and implementation of public health leadership development programs.
{"title":"Developing a Public Health Pipeline: Key Components of a Public Health Leadership Program.","authors":"Alina L Flores, Kristina Risley, Kenneth Quintana","doi":"10.15761/PMCH.1000110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15761/PMCH.1000110","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Thirty percent of federal public health employees were retirement eligible in September 2017. Further, at the state public health level, as indicated in the recent Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey (PH WINS), an estimated 25% of employees are planning to retire before 2020 with an additional 18% intending to leave their organizations within one year. Due to these workforce changes, there is an urgent need for public health organizations to examine how they are ensuring a talent pool from which leaders can emerge. As a large federal public health agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) faces the challenge of providing leadership development to staff. Factors were examined that agency leaders identified as key components of a leadership development program to transition scientific public health staff into supervisory leadership roles. While many factors contribute to leadership development, participants more often identified training, provision of opportunities, mentors, and identification of high potential employees as key components of a leadership develop program. With the need to develop organizational leaders to be ready when vacancies become available, findings from this study can inform the development and implementation of public health leadership development programs.</p>","PeriodicalId":74491,"journal":{"name":"Preventive medicine and community health","volume":"1 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6089369/pdf/nihms975686.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36401818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
扫码关注我们
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：