1. 2nd ILSI-CHIP Symposium Dec 7-8th 2011
Community Health and Wellbeing
Through Multi-Sectoral Partnerships
Health Reform
Prevention is Everyone’s Business
Plenary 4: Building a Healthy Workforce
Committed to Prevention
What are the Core Competencies for
Prevention in a Health Workforce?
Professor Glen F. Maberly, Director, CHIP

2. Hippocrates
A physician is skilled in treating and
certainly not harming their patients – a
master physician is skilled in treating
whole populations – translated annotation

3. Moving from Clinical Medicine to Public
Health Practitioner
Patient becomes Population
Family & social history becomes Cultural, Socio-
economic and Political environment
Medical History/Assessment becomes Epidemiology
profile & activities of potential partners
Diagnosis/Problem List becomes Burden of Disease
Management becomes– Multi-sector interventions
Follow-up - Evaluation

4. Components of Community Health and
Wellbeing Programs
BEHAVIOURAL CHANGE
Advocacy/ Politics
Communication/ Media
Education/Marketing
MANAGEMENT
Human Resources
Training/Skills
Information MULTI SECTOR INTERVENTION
Networks Councils/Planning/Design/
ASSESSMENT
Financial Resources Services
Baseline and follow-up Survey
Other Resources Food production & Supply
Situation Assessment
Inspection and Enforcement Schools/Education
Program Monitoring Government Institutions
Evaluation Recreation/Sports
Transport
Social Services

5. Skills for Modern Health Worker
Basic skills set Enhanced skill set
 Strong/ up-to-date medical  Innovation and
knowledge and experience entrepreneurial
 Specialised procedural,  Finance and business
diagnostic and other  Partnering
technical  Advocacy, education &
 Strong communication skills marketing
with patients, carers, staff,  Epidemiology,
colleagues monitoring & evaluation
 eHealth savvy
if you don’t have it rent it

6. Commonwealth / State Health Reform
COAG has agreed to work in partnership on National Health Reform with the following
initiatives that have opportunity to strengthen investments in prevention.
National Partnership Agreement on Preventive Health
The Australian National Preventive Health Agency is committed to conducting a national audit of our current
workforce and developing a new strategy to strengthen it.
The NSW Government committed to strengthening preventative health initiatives
Minister’s Presentation
Local Hospital Network
To have a prevention role
Medicare Local
To have a population focus and a prevention role
National Aged Care System, including Home and Community Care (HACC)
New initiatives for District Programs for Aged Care and Healthcare to support healthy aging (Dec 23)
Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR)
Information systems to support coordinated care and health coaching
Workforce Development
 Training more GPs and medical specialists, and better supporting nurses and allied health professionals
Let’s harness these reforms to also build the prevention workforce
For more Info: http://www.yourhealth.gov.au

7. Public-Private-Civic Partnership
Prevention is everyone‘s business
Sharing Culture – bring your partnership
skills to the table
Share the Vision - everyone can see and
share the big picture
Satisfy Needs – “what’s in it for me”
recognised for each partner
Specialise Contribution – each party brings
recognised unique value
Streamline – change what you do a little to
benefit the whole
Shared Risk and Reward - there is enough
sunshine for everyone
Stay optimistic – many reasons to say no,
stay focused on the “why not”