Scott Commins and Dr. Raymond Greenberg's UPitt Supercourse offers a compelling review of factors contributing to health disparities. These variables include race, gender and SES. The authors present convincing data, however; there are no activities for the learner to engage in.
This two part course was developed by Denise Koo, MD, MPH from the CDC's Epidemiology Program Office. Dr. Koo presents 9 uses of public health surveiallance data along with visual examples of each (e.g. distrubtion maps, charts, graphs). She stresses the importance of using surveillance data to inform public health programming.
Speaker:
Sharon G. Humiston, MD, Pediatrician, Emergency Department, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Program Description:
Sharon G. Humiston, MD, is a Pediatrician in the Emergency Department of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and author of Vaccinating Your Child: Questions and Answers for the Concerned Parent. Her presentation clearly articulates the facts regarding the risks and benefits of vaccinations and provide methods for handling resistance to vaccinating when it arises.
The course will introduce key concepts in epidemiology that are needed for public health practice. These concepts include the measures of disease frequency, principles and techniques of surveillance, outbreak investigation, measures of association used in epidemiologic studies, causal reasoning, confounding, bias, and epidemiologic study design.
This course is part of a series of programs intended for public health administrators, and nurse administrators, who are relatively new in their positions (3 years or less), and who seek to enhance the knowledge, skills, and abilities they need to succeed. The course discusses the role of Public Health the community planning, describes healthy planning concepts in relationship to community health planning, and identifies planning models that can be utilized in community health planning. There are four video clips in this course: Roles of Public Health in Community Planning; Healthy Community Concepts; Dealing with Burnout; and Planning Models.
An increase in women's employment has resulted in a parallel increase in pregnant workers. In this presentation, Dr. John D. Meyers describes the theories of psychosocial stressors in the workplace and the application of these theories to outcomes of pregnancies. He also discusses the uncertainties involved in this area of research.
Many states issue advisories about eating sport fish from their waters. Obtaining and interpreting data for the advisories is usually a collaborative effort between the state health and environmental agencies. States differ when they issue an advisory and how the advisories are presenented and distributed to the public. Dr. Kim will discuss the background and considerations that New York State uses when developing and issuing advisories for contaminants in fish.
David Troxel, M.P.H. is nationally and internationally known for his writing and teaching in the field of Alzheimer’s disease and long-term care. He has co-authored four books and written numerous articles related to Alzheimer’s care. He has served as Executive Director of the Santa Barbara Alzheimer’s Assoc., a past Executive member of the American Public Health Association, and is a past member of the Ethics Advisory Panel for the US National Alzheimer’s Association. David is also a 1986 alumnus of the UMDNJ-School of Public Health.
A seminar that highlights the work of Dr. Wenger in his effort, through Project Vaccinate, to help improve the health of inner city toddlers. Project Vaccinate is recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for its work in raising the rate of Newark families who successfully have their pre-school children immunized to help prevent serious and often life-threatening illnesses. This seminar will introduce concepts to the participants that will begin to develop their ability to assess conditions of the population and its ability to address their own health priorities, will show, through the Newark project, how to set procedures in place to lessen a public health crisis. This will foster in them belief in a principle that leads to protecting each person in the community from disease.
Last year saw the largest outbreak of measles cases in recent times. This year, the public braces for an onslaught of the H1N1 influenza virus. As a growing number of people opt out of immunizations, some herd immunity is lost. This puts the general population – particularly those who cannot receive immunizations – at higher risk of developing preventable diseases. This program examines the benefits of health care worker and child immunization while addressing myths that may lead an individual to avoid vaccination.
After watching this broadcast participants will be able to:
o Explain the major benefits of immunization and herd immunity.
o Name two vaccine-preventable diseases that have affected children in recent years.
o Explain the argument that rejects thimerosal as an autism-inducing agent.
This joint presentation by Dr.s Susan Sherman, PhD, MPH and Danielle German, PhD, MPH describes the economic motivation behind HIV/STI risk among sex workers, and it outlines two programs that were effective at “cutting the risk at its source” by providing sex workers with alternate sources of income. At the end of this session, the learner will be able to:
Provide a description of the societal structures that impact prevalence of HIV and interventions to address those structures;
Describe how the Jewel Project in Baltimore impacted sex workers’ risk behaviors by training them to make and market beaded jewelry;
Identify some of the lessons learned about why this program was effective; and
Discuss the effects of training sex workers to sew and to produce sellable products on their sexual risk behaviors and economic well being.
