The primary role of the public health workforce is to promote and protect the health of the population by preventing disease, promoting healthy behaviors, and responding to public health emergencies.

Direct patient care is not a core function of public health. The core functions of public health are assessment, policy development, and assurance.

All of the above terms are used to describe the shortage of qualified public health professionals.

Improved job opportunities in other fields is not a factor contributing to the public health workforce shortage.

All of the above strategies are effective in addressing the public health workforce shortage.

The public health workforce plays a critical role in emergency preparedness and response by developing and implementing emergency response plans, providing medical care to disaster victims, and conducting surveillance for infectious diseases.

Physician is not a type of public health professional. Epidemiologists, sanitarians, and nurses are all types of public health professionals.

The public health workforce plays a critical role in promoting healthy behaviors by educating the public, developing and implementing health promotion programs, and advocating for policies that support healthy behaviors.

Medical knowledge is not a core competency of public health professionals. Communication, critical thinking, and problem solving are all core competencies of public health professionals.

The public health workforce plays a critical role in preventing chronic diseases by promoting healthy behaviors, screening for and managing chronic diseases, and advocating for policies that prevent chronic diseases.

Encouraging public health organizations to adopt diversity and inclusion policies is not a strategy to improve the diversity of the public health workforce.

The public health workforce plays a critical role in addressing health disparities by identifying and addressing the root causes of health disparities, developing and implementing interventions to reduce health disparities, and advocating for policies that address health disparities.

Inadequate funding for public health is not a challenge facing the public health workforce.

The public health workforce plays a critical role in environmental health by assessing and monitoring environmental hazards, developing and implementing policies to protect the environment, and educating the public about environmental health risks.

Public health apprenticeship programs are not a type of public health workforce development program.