Examples Of Core Competencies

Core Competencies Addressing the epidemic of the co-infection requires the core competencies as public health professionals. Omissions of the core competencies are responsible for the unsatisfactory response to the rising epidemic. One of the core competencies is to acknowledge and describe ethical and legal bases of public health. Unfortunately, the government of South Africa denied the overwhelming concerns of tuberculosis-HV co-infection. The lack of political will, and inappropriate implementation of protocols and programs for disease control drive the challenges in controlling both HIV and tuberculosis.
One example of dismissing this core competency is how HIV and AIDS were handled in the 1980’s. The cases of HIV in homosexual men
The services tied to this are linking services, monitor health status and health dangers, and mobilize the community. These methods associated with this competency are integrated response for both diseases and the strategic planning to detect, diagnose, evaluate, and treat cases.
Monitoring health status, mobilization of the community is also tied to the third competency, which is discussing policy process to improve health status of populations. In this case, the population in question is HIV positive patients with tuberculosis. The policy and programs tied to integrated therapy and case finding are major components that serve as examples for this competency.
The fourth core competency is applying principles of strategic planning and marketing to public health. Social marketing is relevant to the essential service of education, informing, and empowering people. Strategic planning is close to the essential service of investigation, diagnosis, and research of the strategies and their impacts to the community. With these core competences, they help explain the services and how they shape integrated response and other methods to combat tuberculosis and