Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a public health policy officer can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a public health policy officer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Public health policy officers develop and implement strategies for the improvement of a community's health care policy. They advise governments on policy changes and identify problems in current health care policies.

Also known as general manager, healthcare services planning officer, healthcare planning officer, healthcare planner, health service manager, healthcare admistrator, general manager healthcare.

Professionals 32 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: healthcare consultant, 80%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
healthcare consultant 80% covered social service consultant 47% covered healthcare institution manager 45% covered employment programme coordina… 43% covered community development officer 41% covered public health policy offi… You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from public health policy officer, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a public health policy officer already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A public health policy officer needs 14 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • analyse health problems within a given community information skills
  • assess health services within the community information skills
  • lead healthcare services changes management skills
  • implement policy in healthcare practices communication, collaboration and creativity
  • address public health issues management skills
  • contribute to public health campaigns management skills
  • public health health and welfare
  • health care system services
  • provide improvement strategies management skills
  • health care legislation business, administration and law
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a public health policy officer does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Public health policy officer is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a public health policy officer’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.