Planned Delivery - Promoting Pre-service Educatin of Public Health Staff
8.3.4 Planned Delivery - Promoting Pre-service Education of Public Health Staff
Earlier in this report we noted that about 40% of health ministries and about 50% of public health units had defined the pre-service qualifications required of public health personnel for working with youth or schools. A minority of health ministries (25%) said they had funded the development of related courses or certification programs. They responded as follows.
Figure 175
| Funded Development of Courses or Certificates for PH Personnel | Planned in next 2 yrs |
Regularly |
Once within last 3 yrs |
Once in last 4-10 yrs |
Never |
Not role |
Don’t Know |
| MOH - 15c | 0.0 |
25.0 |
8.3 |
8.3 |
41.7 |
8.3 |
8.3 |
Sustained Support for Implementation of Sexual Health Services
This section of the report describes the survey results pertaining to sustained support for the delivery of preventive sexual health services.
Summary of Results Related to Sustained Support for Service Delivery
Over three-quarters of health ministries and public health units said that they have adapted the delivery of sexual health services to meet the needs of adolescents.
About two-thirds of health ministries and one-third of public health units said that they have adapted their sexual health services to meet the needs of aboriginal, disabled or ethnocultural minority youth. About half of health ministries and health units said that they have adapted those services to meet the needs of gay, lesbian and bisexual youth.
About half of the health authorities reported that the delivery of sexual health services to adolescents was coordinated with schools. The majority of health authorities reported that sexual health services delivery was linked with other health problems. About 40% of health ministries and public health units said that they were funding the delivery of school-based health services.
Less than half of health ministries and over 80% of public health units reported that they made efforts to ensure that school staff, parents and adolescents were aware of available sexual health services.
Over half of school principals said that they monitor the number and nature of students referred to health services from their school. A similar response came from teachers when asked if they refer students to other professionals for sexual health information.
One-third of health ministries reported that they fund inservice for public health staff on a regular basis. Over half of public health units said that they provide such inservice. Over half of public health nurses reported that they have had at least three workshops on youth health promotion, sexual health and HIV/AIDS and STD.