Core Competencies
Core competencies are a set of essential skills and abilities necessary for the broad practice of public health:
- Basic building blocks to develop the public health workforce
- Transcend discipline specific boundaries of individual disciplines
- Independent of program/topic
- Potential to further depth and role of public health
The Canadian Public Health Core Competencies are grouped under 7 domains:
1. Core public health sciences
2. Assessment and analysis
3. Policy development and program planning
4. Partnership , collaboration and advocacy
5. Communication
6. Socio-cultural
7. Leadership
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