Public Health Financial Management Competencies

A committee of experts revised century-old professional competencies for public health financial management.

A professional competency is a set of knowledge, skills and abilities that allows someone to uphold their professional responsibilities. In the field of public health finance, those responsibilities include the acquisition, utilization and management of resources for delivering public health services.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded a committee to identify competencies appropriate for today’s public health financial management workforce. During conference calls and one-on-one discussions, held over an 8-month period, the committee identified basic and complex financial management skills. A follow-up survey, given to finance managers at local health agencies, tested the validity of the competencies.

Key Findings:

  • The committee assigned public health finance competencies to three domains: (1) Organization and Program Planning/Policy Development, (2) Financial Planning and Management Skills, and (3) Administrative and General Skills.
  • For each competency, the committee defined the level of expertise required for financial managers and senior leaders.

Financial managers in public health often perform below the level of their peers in related professions. This article, from the Journal of Public Health Management, details newly established professional competencies for the public heath financial management workforce.

April Issue of Health Affairs Focuses on Patient Safety and Health Care Quality

  1. 1 The Ongoing Quality Improvement Journey
  2. 2 A Road Map for Improving the Performance of Performance Measures
  3. 3 The Trade-Off Among Quality, Quantity, and Cost
  4. 4 Global Trigger Tool' Shows that Adverse Events in Hospitals May be Ten Times Greater Than Previously Measured
  5. 5 Preventing Bloodstream Infections
  6. 6 Measuring the Performance of Individual Physicians by Collecting Data from Multiple Health Plans
  7. 7 Measuring Health Care Performance Now, Not Tomorrow
  8. 8 Despite Improved Quality of Care in the Veterans Affairs Health System, Racial Disparity Persists for Important Clinical Outcomes
  9. 9 The Importance of Transitional Care in Achieving Health Reform
  10. 10 An Early Status Report on the Beacon Communities' Plans for Transformation Via Health Information Technology
  11. 11 A Comparative Study of 11 Local Health Department Organizational Networks
  12. 12 Public Health Performance
  13. 13 A Self-Assessment Process for Accreditation Preparedness
  14. 14 Public Health Delivery Systems
  15. 15 Regionalization in Local Public Health Systems
  16. 16 Public Health Services and Systems Research
  17. 17 A Shot in the Rear, Not a Shot in the Dark
  18. 18 What Predicts Local Public Health Agency Performance Improvement?
  19. 19 Growth of a Scientific Community of Practice
  20. 20 Evolution of Coauthorship in Public Health Services and Systems Research
  21. 21 Resources that May Matter
  22. 22 Evidence Links Increases in Public Health Spending to Declines in Preventable Deaths
  23. 23 Public Health Financial Management Competencies
  24. 24 Decision Science
  25. 25 Public Health Financial Management Needs
  26. 26 Data-Driven Management Strategies in Public Health Collaboratives
  27. 27 Using Geographic Information Systems to Match Local Health Needs with Public Health Services and Programs
  28. 28 Public Health Systems and Services Research
  29. 29 Local Public Health Capacities to Address the Needs of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations
  30. 30 A Needs Assessment for Data and Methods in Public Health Systems Research
  31. 31 Mapping the Multidisciplinary Field of Public Health Services and Systems Research

Explore Related

Most Requested