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2009 H1N1 (referred to as "swine flu" early on) is a new influenza virus causing illness in people. This new virus was first detected in people in the United States in April 2009. This virus is spreading from person-to-person worldwide, probably in much the same way that regular seasonal influenza viruses spread. On June 11, 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) signaled that a pandemic of 2009 H1N1 flu was underway. This workshop will present some of the history and understanding the science community brings us about the viral evolution of the novel influenze A (H1N1), along with the changing epidemiology of the pandemic. The presenter will lay out the implications associated with the idea of a pandemic situation, will discuss mode of transmission among humans, what the signs and symptoms of this virus are, and will review the prevention and treatment options as well as the recommended public health policies and practices with respect to the novel influenza A (H1N1) virus.
The tsunami struck in December 2004. After four years, what has the effort to restore the land been like? This presentation will discuss the presenters’ direct involvement in assisting Tsunami survivors rebuild their infrastructure, while developing public health policy and plans that build capacity in Thailand within South East Asia. They will look at the issues that have developed over the last four years.
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.
Philip McCabe is a Public Health Educator, Staff Trainer, and Consultant in the areas of Emergency Preparedness, and Disaster Response. He also provides services in the area of alcohol, tobacco, illegal drugs, and compulsive gambling addictions; Policy and Program Development, Survivor of Abuse/Trauma and Domestic Violence, Co-Occurring Disorders, LGBT/ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Orientation Questioning Clients, Psycho-Social Issues for people infected/affected with AIDS/HIV, Clinical Case Management, Crisis Intervention, Addiction Treatment, Individual, Group and Family Therapy.
Philip is a New Jersey Certified Social Worker and Addiction Specialist and holds numerous other certifications that range from Disaster Response Counselor, American Compulsive Gambling Counselor, and National Forensic Counselor. He is also an instructor at the Rutgers School of Alcohol and Drug Studies.
ABCs of Folic Acid Counseling is an online tutorial with steps on folic acid counseling for health professionals who provide care for women of childbearing age. The goal of the ABCs of Folic Acid Counseling is to increase folic acid counseling among nursing professionals and health educators who have contact with women of childbearing age. After taking this online tutorial, the learner will be able to use the steps in folic acid counseling during an interaction with a woman. This course expires on 10/1/09.
Alcohol and drug abuse is a public health issue. Barbara Waite will discuss the Disease Model of addiction, risk factors for nurses, signs and symptoms of the chemically dependent nurse, and the philosophy and mission of the Statewide Peer Assistance for Nurses (SPAN) program.
Present a brief understanding of the Epidemiological studies that have been used to draw attention to the need for standards in regards to childhood safety with regard to lead exposure. Review and present the findings from several studies that show the need for continued lowering of acceptable lead levels for children. Present findings that show the need to provide an adequate margin of safety by identifying children with body burden below that at which the risk of developmental toxicity becomes unacceptable. To present the arguments that have prompted the state to lower the lead level burden children face and why it may be better to leave the standards alone.
From the deaths of a few young gay white men in 1981, to epidemic and pandemic proportions today, HIV/AIDS is a devastating public health challenge that today disproportionately impacts communities of color in this country and throughout the global community. In the USA, an estimated one million people are living with the virus. Globally, 40 million people are infected including, 17.5 million women and 2.3 million children under the age of 15. Frank Oldham, Executive Director of the National Association of People with AIDS and Doug Fish, M.D., Medical Director, AIDS Treatment Program, Albany Medical Center will discuss the epidemiology of the disease, contemporary clinical and prevention interventions and advocacy. Their talk will address where we are, 25 years into this global public health problem.
Over 330,000 New York residents have Alzheimer’s disease or related disorders. With the elderly population increasing significantly the issues associated with Alzheimer’s disease may be overwhelming. Currently in NYS, 70 percent of the persons with Alzheimer’s disease reside in the community and 75 percent of their care is provided by family caregivers. In this session, Earl Zimmerman, MD will provide an overview of Alzheimer’s disease, describing the role and importance of primary care in early detection and treatment, and discuss emerging research. Mary Mittelman, DrPH will discuss the results of several of her studies, illustrating the positive effects of delaying admission to nursing homes by providing care to patients with Alzheimer’s disease in the community and support to caregivers.
Speakers:
David Hoffman, MS, Director, Bureau of Chronic Disease Services, NYS Department of Health
Mary McFadden, Director, Steps to a Healthier New York, Broome County, NY
Program Description:
In the United States today, seven of ten deaths are attributable to chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and asthma. This program will showcase a new innovative model for addressing the prevention of these chronic diseases. The benefits of an integrated approach will be demonstrated through discussions with community stakeholders and highlights from selected interventions from the four Steps to Healthier NY communities (Broome, Chautauqua, Jefferson, and Rockland counties).
The debate over health care reform during the recent presidential campaign, and the consensus over the imperative for reform among diverse interest groups such as business and labor, liberal and conservative policy advocates, and state and federal government officials, have raised expectations that substantive reform of our health care system is imminent. This seminar reviews the current tensions within the US health care system that have led to calls for reform, the recent efforts to implement reform at the state and federal levels, the types of approaches to reform that have been proposed, and conclude with a discussion of the reform initiative likely to be proposed by the Obama Administration.
Speaker: Alan Monheit, Ph.D. - Professor of Health Economics (with tenure), Department of Health Systems and Policy, School of Public Health, UMDNJ; Director, Ph.D. Program in Public Health – Health Systems and Policy, UMDNJ; Director, Center for Health Economics and Health Policy, UMDNJ; Research Professor, Rutgers University, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research & Center for State Health PolicyAffiliated faculty, Department of Economics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick; Senior Scholar, Department of Health Policy, Jefferson Medical College; Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research; Editor, Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing
This presentation focuses on giving a foundational understanding of the principles of protecting each person in the community from disease, injury, and other health hazards as it relates to the issue of lead poison prevention. The presenter focuses on community relations as it relates to developing constructive partnerships that focus on community public health needs. This in turn strengthens the public health infrastructure and its essential services to direct necessary changes as it pertains to the issue of lead abatement.
Speaker:
P. Jeffrey Byrne, Asthma Program Director, St. John's Hospital, Yonkers, NY
Program Description:
After countless asthmatic children were rushed to its emergency room, St. John's Riverside Hospital collaborated with the Yonkers schools to form a partnership to improve asthma care within the schools. The service empowers school nurses to provide clinical treatment onsite for students experiencing asthma episodes. The result has been fewer emergency calls, reduced absenteeism and improved safety. Speaker Jeff Byrne, Asthma Program Director at St. Johnâ??s Hospital in Yonkers, NY talks about this successful program.
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. This course is intended for public health practitioners who do not have significant knowledge or experience in the field of epidemiology. The course offers an opportunity to learn how an epidemiologist investigates the causes of disease, its distribution, how it spreads, and measures for control and prevention.
As healthcare managers and leaders continue to develop sophistication in managing complex situations, the systems model is useful to assist nurse managers in addressing day to day pressures which are steeped in uncertainty. Systems thinking is both a powerful problem solving tool and a powerful language to assist healthcare mangers and leaders in making better decisions, using resources more effectively and achieving organizational goals. At the conclusion of this activity, the participant will be able to: (1) describe the basic elements of the systems model; (2) discuss systems thinking as a tool to manage the challenges in the healthcare environment; (3) examine the seven-step process for using systems thinking; and (4) apply the principles of systems thinking to strategic planning.
Body modifications such as piercing, tattoos, and indoor tanning have become very popular in recent years, especially among teenagers and young adults. However these body altering practices are associated with real health risks. During this program, you will be introduced to different types of body modifications and the health risks associated with them. Interviews with local health departments and people who perform these body modifications will provide insight into the different health risks and the steps that can be taken to minimize them.
Universal Design (UD) is a framework for the design of places, things, information, communication and policy that focuses on the user, on the widest range of people operating in the widest range of situations without special or separate design. It is a philosophy that can be applied to policy, systems and environmental changes, so that processes function better for a wider range of people. It developed in response to insights about the potential of design as an asset and facilitator to in response to changing demographics and the diversity of human populations, their abilities and their needs. UD is also called inclusive design, human centered design and design-for-all.
The principles of UD have a significant role in advancing Public Health efforts to improve health outcomes and reduce disparities among populations. The broadcast will discuss the principles of Universal Design and its application in building healthy communities. Speakers will discuss the evolution of this design philosophy and describe its influence on social and physical environments, architecture, communication, and product design as they relate to health and well-being. Speakers will highlight global examples of communities and projects that have utilized Universal Design to support healthy lifestyles and more inclusive and welcoming places. After watching this broadcast participants will be able to:
* Discuss the evolution of Universal Design and its focus on the “user”
* Identify and describe the principles of Universal Design and links to global health policy
* Explain practical tools for how Universal Design can benefit your community
* Describe strategies for integrating Universal Design into planning, policy and practice that can help to deliver improved livability and health
Public health educators have been inundated with competency sets and charged with determining the ability of their learners to perform at expected levels. This session will present concrete and practical strategies for linking competency achievement to training activities, identifying the level of skill developed in a training session, and provide participants an opportunity to practice using these “tools of the trade”.
This broadcast will present advances in the prevention, detection and treatment of breast, skin, cervical and colorectal cancer. Also, Mr. Hutton will describe the results of recent clinical trials that may help clinicians provide individualized treatments that are more effective and have fewer side effects. In addition, Dr. Lichtveld will discuss cancer core competencies aimed at creating surge capacity in the general health professions workforce.
The CDC Public Health Law News is published every business day and mailed to subscribers electronically. The News features abstracts of current news articles on public health law and related subjects, plus announcements of events and other timely material. To subscribe to this free service, visit http://www.cdc.gov/subscribe.html .
Lead is a toxin that can harm young children as their bodies develop. It can damage the organs in developing children or lead to learning and behavioral problems. This program will look at how recent surveillance data can be used to create a housing-based approach to eliminating lead poisoning. It will also look at how to best assess a child’s blood lead level and subsequent procedures, including further testing and guidance, if the lead level is elevated.
After watching this broadcast participants will be able to:
* Explain why exposure to environmental lead is a health concern for young children.
* Describe the steps taken to determine a child’s blood lead level and what happens if the level is elevated.
* Describe how the lead surveillance data is used to develop a housing based approach for the prevention of childhood lead poisoning.
Speaker:
Margo Wootan, Director, Nutrition Policy, Center for Science in the Public Interest
Program Description:
Healthy eating and physical activity take more than willpower. While lifestyle choices are ultimately a matter of personal responsibility and personal choice, those choices are influenced by the food and physical environment. The speaker will explore how advertising, food industry PR campaigns, restaurant foods, portion sizes, food pricing, school environments, television, and transportation policy often encourage eating too much and discourage moving. The session will outline promising policy and environmental approaches that can help to reshape the environment and make healthier choices easier.
New data indicates that 26 million American adults have Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and millions of others are at increased risk. Diabetes is the leading cause of kidney failure, and significant increases in diabetes are expected to lead to corresponding increases in CKD and renal failure.
Studies show that early identification and intervention is effective in slowing the progression of co-morbid diseases and complications of CKD in diabetes. Early detection can also help prevent the progression of kidney disease to kidney failure. African Americans, Hispanics, Pacific Islanders, Native Americans and seniors are at increased risk for the disease. This presentation will demonstrate how outcomes can be improved through increased awareness and education on the timely evaluation and management of CKD for health care providers who care for people with diabetes; who is at risk for the disease; methods for early identification of CKD; and management of CKD in people with diabetes.
Howard Frumkin, MD, DrPH, presents the 17th Granville H. Sewell Distinguished Lecture in Environmental Health Sciences. His lecture covers: the science of climate change, the impacts of climate change, strategies of communicating the impacts of climate change, and the public health response (both conceptual links and practical steps) to climate change
You will learn specific skills necessary to be an effective coach in this self-directed course. Every employee deserves the opportunity to work at his or her potential and also, through experience, grow and develop their expertise. Achieving career development requires the careful supervising of the manager/coach. You will follow a step-by-step process that will ensure you, your employee, your team, and ultimately your organization succeeds.
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Faculty discusses how and why collaboration has become such a buzz word and why it is one of the key competencies in public health. The discussion explains how collaboration is not about everyone getting along, but allowing for and sometimes encouraging conflict. Faculty also address how collaboration relates to the Ten Essential Public Health Services and why it is at the core of a major paradigm change in public health. They cover the essential elements to collaboration – one of which may surprise you – and the skills needed to be successful. Faculty discuss current trends that public health is facing and how those are expanding the need for community-based collaborations and, finally, how collaboration is an essential element in improving public health performance.
Colorectal cancer (CRC) affects all racial and ethnic groups, but African-Americans have the highest occurrence of CRC among all racial and ethnic groups in the US. Furthermore, CRC screening is underused among African-Americans. Various factors have been identified as barriers and facilitators to CRC screening among African-Americans. This presentation will inform participants about the background and significance of CRC screening in the African-American community, CRC treatment options, barriers and facilitators to CRC screening in this community and suggested strategies to improve screening rates. Participants will learn about CRC screening in the African-American community in the attempt to help minimize adverse health outcomes in this population and address the wider societal problem of health disparities in the US. Additionally, participants will have the opportunity to reflect on how health interventions can be more responsive to the cultural, ethnic, and social characteristics of affected populations.
Speaker:
Ancella Livers, PhD, Manager, Open-Enrollment Programs, Center for Creative Leadership
Program Description:
Effective cross-cultural communication is critical if we are to reach the Healthy People 2010 goal of reducing health disparities. Dr. Livers will discuss barriers to such communication and possible strategies to overcome these barriers. This broadcast is intended as a complement to an online course on Effective Cross-Cultural Communication to be available this fall through the New York New Jersey Public Health Training Center
Andrew Pleasant addresses the importance, difficulties, and methods for successful communication for the public health professional.
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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.
The purpose of the course is to provide practical, hands on, experience in conflict management. The course will focus on how conflict management can be used in a variety of work settings. The course features an interactive discussion led by an expert in conflict management. At the completion of this course, learners will be able to: (1) define conflict and resolution, (2) know how to structure a conflict management process, and (3) feel more confident about approaching conflicts.
Ensuring that all children and adolescents have access to comprehensive affordable health insurance coverage is at the top of Governor Spitzer's health agenda. This session will look at who New York's uninsured are, describe the State's campaign to provide access to health insurance for all children and eligible adults and highlight initiatives underway that will make it easier for families to apply for and renew their coverage. It will also describe a collaborative partnership in the City of Rochester, NY to increase insurance coverage for school students and their families.
Objectives
At the conclusion of the presentation, the participants will be able to:
(1) Describe trends in health insurance coverage in New York State.
(2) Apply available tools to facilitate enrollment in state health insurance programs.
(3) Describe ways that health organizations can collaborate with schools to assist families enroll in health insurance programs
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 continued existence of health disparities related to race and socioeconomic status reflects a basic contradiction in American society. Equity is inextricably connected to fairness and justice. Addressing solutions to these problems is therefore a process of creating equity in health by correcting social and economic injustice and focusing on basic human rights and the triumph of social justice. Dr. Adewale Troutman, Director of the Fulton Co. Department of Health and Wellness in Atlanta, GA, discusses the process of creating equity in health.
Can you walk to work? Can your kids walk to school? Walking is one of the best ways to improve your health. Yet many of us live in communities where a "simple walk" is anything by easy. "Walkability" of our communities has an impact on health, traffic calming, pedestrian safety and economic development. Dan Burden, nationally acclaimed speaker and planner, shares ways to create walkable communities where a daily walk isn't just a recreational activity but a regular part of conducting the business of our lives. (This broadcast was sponsored by the NYS Healthy Heart Program.)
This course by Dr. Bernard Goldstein, Dean Emeritus and Professor at the Graduate School of Public Health of the University of Pittsburgh, and chair of the National Board of Public Health Examiners (NBPHE), presents credentialing as one pathway to improve the quality of education public health students receive, to improve the overall effectiveness of public health practitioners and to heighten recognition of graduate-trained public health professionals who have attained the credential. The process – currently under way – includes developing, preparing, administering and evaluating a voluntary certification examination that tests whether students and graduates of CEPH-accredited schools and programs have mastered the core knowledge and skills relevant to contemporary public health. This new credentialing process is occurring at a time of heightened interest, when new knowledge, skills, and competencies are required to practice public health, the diversity of our nation is increasing, and rapid turnover in the public health work force is anticipated.
Speaker:
Barbara Reynolds, MA, Crisis Communication Specialist, CDC
Program Description:
Since September 11th, the role of the public health professional has become heightened. In a situation of high risk or uncertainty, what is the best way to communicate with the public and other officials? How can we protect people and simultaneously keep panic at a minimum? How can we clearly communicate with law enforcement officials and medical providers in an emergency? This program will provide clear guidelines for communicating in high risk situations
This course presents cases that are culturally specific to lifestyle information for a variety of cultures. For example, overviews of religion, social customs, health practices and privacy issues are provided and followed by healthcare case scenarios. While there are no questions to work through in these cases, excellent points are made about many cultures and arm us with critical information to increase our cultural understanding.
This course provides an introduction to public health data interpretation. It provides a basic competency in reading and presenting data, as well as an understanding of the terms used to describe data and the subtleties associated with data. Examples and interactive exercises offer opportunities to increase your skills in presenting data to co-workers, community-based organizations, hospitals, public agencies, boards of health, and general public. Topics include: uses of rates and counts, prevalence, incidence, mortality, crude versus category-specific rates, confidence intervals, p-values, graphs and tables, and sources of public health data. Idaho-specific and U.S. national data examples are used. The intended audience includes public health nurses, sanitarians, other frontline public health workers, and health educators who have not had epidemiological or statistical training but need to be able to read, interpret, and present public health data.
Depression is two times more common in people who have diabetes than in people who do not have the disease. Recent studies have shown a significant correlation between the symptoms of depression and the number and severity of diabetes complications. In addition, total health care expenditures for people with diabetes and depression are 4.5 times higher than for those without depression. This broadcast will provide important information for health professionals about the link between diabetes and depression.
Learning Objectives
- Review current dietary guidelines for cancer prevention
- Review the epidemiologic evidence linking diet and cancer
-Describe public health efforts at the state and global level regarding diet
and cancer
Presented by Dr. Elissa Bandera, The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Disability is a major health concern across the entire age spectrum. Historically, it has been equated with inferior health status, with the health needs of persons with disabilities considered only in relation to their particular limitations. Often the management of the primary disabling condition has been the overriding concern, with less attention paid to the generally recommended standards of health screening and disease prevention.
The purpose of this course is to provide public health practitioners with the awareness and knowledge to incorporate diversity and cultural competency concepts, tools, and techniques into their daily work. It is expected that by the end of this course that each participant will be conversant in issues related to culture and health, health disparities, and community health models designed to close the gap in health disparities.
This course guides participants developing action plans to help handle issues that might come up from cultural diversity. In this course, the participants will ascertain diagnostic skills, make inferences from collected data, and learn to how to create feedback for individuals, groups and organizations. This course has two prerequisite courses: Diversity and Cultural Competency in Public Health Settings and Managing Diversity Begins with You. This course is not supported by Mac operating systems. To request a copy in CD-ROM format, contact trdirect@tulane.edu
This seminar presents a perspective on Methamphetamine (Meth) use as a major public health threat to individuals, families, and communities, in particular in New Jersey. It is a problem that affects many segments of society regardless of gender, age, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or race/ethnicity. Children are at high risk for harm when exposed to meth use and manufacturing. The presentation will include recent information from the National Meth Summit held in Washington DC Nov. 2008.
As a result of former President Clinton's Initiative on Race over a decade ago, which catapulted a verb change from the long held practice of implementing strategies to 'reduce health disparities to eliminate them,' a national infrastructure was created to realize this new vision. Unlike previous policy documents to improve the public's health, Healthy People 2010 enumerated just two goals (1) increase quality and years of healthy life and (2) eliminate health disparities.
Dr. Scrimshaw will describe the socio-cultural, health, health system, and health equity factors which contribute to health disparities. Mr. Norwood will present a model of community health care planning and policy innovation that has informed and catalyzed a community-wide effort to align strategies and interventions to de-mystify and institutionalize efforts to eliminate health disparities.
Public health professionals are increasingly expected to be ready to respond to specific emergencies, as well as be able to adapt to surges in need to the services they provide. This presentation will discuss the evolution of the role of Public Health professionals in emergencies, and provide direction on how to prepare for emergencies by thinking differently about one’s day-to-day work of developing regulations and policy planning. The seminar will present concepts of how participants can improve the quality and efficiency of their day-to-day workflow of decision making and resource allocation as preparation for improved management of emergencies and surges.
After viewing this presentation, you should:
(1) Understand the need to be prepared to manage large-scale emergencies
(2) Better understand the need to increase public health preparedness activities and simulations
(3) Understand the role of leadership during distinct stages of a crisis
(4) Be able to articulate the need for more preparedness advocacy
Speakers:
Marilee Grygelko, Director of the Rape Crisis Program at the New York State Department of Health; Judith Condo, Director of the Albany County Crime Victim and Sexual Violence Center, and Rene Rovere, Director of the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Program at Albany Medical Center.
Program Description:
This program provides a public health perspective on the issue of rape, including the impact of rape, the types of services provided within the community, and how these services can help re-empower the survivor of a rape.
People tend to be concerned about the possibility of health effects from exposure to hazardous chemicals in the environment. As public health professionals it's important for us to be able to understand and clearly convey concepts about exposure to the public, especially as it relates to contaminated sites such as hazardous landfills. This presentation provides an overview of exposure, the terms and concepts used in exposure assessment and a brief introduction to quantifying exposure.
Environmental problems, conservation and planning are often not about nature as much as they are about humans and human behavior. Environmental literacy is the range of skills and abilities that enable people to understand the information needed to lessen environmental risk and take positive individual and corrective actions. Dr. Zarcadoolas will explain how environmental literacy enhances the ability of citizens to participate in environmental decision making.
Series consists of 8 modules:
1) Introduction to Environmental Health and Nursing
2) Air Supply and Pollution
3) Food Safety
4) Housing
5) Land
6) Pest Control
7) Water Supply and Waste Water
8) Workplace
Soil vapor intrusion, the process by which volatile chemicals move from a subsurface source into the indoor air of overlying buildings, has recently emerged as a public health concern at many hazardous waste sites throughout New York State and across the Country. This program will provide an overview of soil vapor intrusion as well as insight into how public health and environmental officials are evaluating and addressing exposures related to soil vapor intrusion.
Objectives:
Upon completion of this broadcast, the audience should be able to:
(1) Provide a basic overview of what soil vapor intrusion is and why it is an issue.
(2)Describe New York State's general approach to evaluating and addressing soil vapor intrusion.
(3)Identify key differences between New York State's approach and those of other State and Federal agencies.
(4) Describe materials that have been developed by New York State related to this issue and where these materials can be obtained.
Lead has no biological function but has harmful effects on multiple organ systems. The most serious effect of low concentrations of lead is on the brain where lead causes and irreversible reduction of IQ and behavioral changes. Dr. Carpenter will explain why there is no concentration of lead that is safe.
A model curriculum with background, case studies, and references examining 9 areas of Public Health ethics. Developed by the American Schools of Public Health, this is a comprehensive resource for teaching and learning about public health ethics in practice, research, and policy.
This presentation will explain the key concepts related to evaluating organizational effectiveness in the public health domain. Examples will be provided throughout the presentation to illustrate the issues from a public health perspective. In addition, guidelines will be presented for executing an effective organizational evaluation process.
This course, consisting of 3 modules, leads users through the various facets of culture and communication in a stimulating format. Learners must make decisions in a real-world public health scenario, while discovering communication strategies they can employ in their daily work. Accredited for 2.5 Category 1 credits CME, 2.5 continuing education contact hours for CHES, and 3 contact hours for nurses
Learning Objectives
1) Increase understanding of the ways that lay people are rational or irrational in making decisions about preventive health behaviors such as vaccination.
2) Understand the implications of decision making research for health policies that could improve uptake of the flu shot.
Presented by Dr. Gretchen Chapman, Rutgers University
Professor Sir Michael Marmot MBBS, MPH, PhD, FRCP, FFPHM, FMedSci, discusses the relationship between social inequality and health. The lecture includes an epidemiological overview of global health inequalities, a discussion of the causes of these health inequalities, and policy recommendations for closing the gap in health outcomes. Sir Marmot is the Director of the International Institute for Society and Health and an MRC Research Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at
University College, London.
For several years, the Surgeon General’s “My Family Health Portrait” tool has been available to the public, and individuals and families have been encouraged to discuss their family health histories at family reunions and Thanksgiving celebrations. The expectation is that knowledge about family health history will inform risk assessment and serve as the basis for offering patients appropriately tailored preventive interventions such as diet, exercise or other lifestyle changes, education about signs and symptoms to facilitate earlier recognition of disease, alternative screening protocols, and, if appropriate, prophylactic pharmaceutical or surgical interventions. In the face of direct-to-consumer marketing of genetic tests, medical and public health professionals must understand why family history is important in the assessment of chronic disease risk, what tools are available to assess family health history information and how to incorporate family health history tools and information into chronic disease prevention initiatives.
After watching this broadcast participants will be able to:
* Describe the role/relevance of family health history in the prevention and control of chronic disease.
* Explain how to use the Surgeon General’s “My Family Health Portrait” instrument.
* Describe the use of family health history in the assessment and management of chronic disease.
Local, comprehensive fatality management plans are needed in order to deal with the large number of decedents that could occur as a result of a pandemic. For those who will deal with those bodies, this program will offer information for planning consideration.
This program will seek to increase awareness of efforts to operationally define local public health agencies and the intended outcomes of this process.
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.
This program will examine the changing nature of foodborne outbreaks and the changing nature of outbreak epidemiology. This includes a look at the shifting scope of food distribution, the scope of outbreak occurrence, and changes in the scale of contamination. While foodborne diseases have always existed in the food supply, modern-day approaches to food production and distribution influence the scale of foodborne outbreaks. As outbreaks become more complex, the nature in which outbreaks are mitigated has also changed. Outbreak epidemiology calls for collaborate efforts among public health, government, and clinical entities in order to identify the source of foodborne outbreaks and prevent the spread or reoccurrence of such outbreaks.
After watching this broadcast participants will be able to:
* Describe the process of identifying the source of a foodborne outbreak.
* Explain the collaborative effort of agencies in monitoring and mitigating foodborne outbreaks.
* Summarize challenges associated with food safety epidemiology.
This archived webcast features a panel discussion regarding food safety. Featured presenters, Craig Hedberg, Jeffrey Kahn, Katherine J. Swanson, and Caroline Smith DeWaal, present perspectives on the issues. Topics include: general food safety introduction, common good, industry’s role, and consumer voice.
"From Evidence to Practice" is a self-paced, web-based course, that teaches the evidence-based public health decision-making process by plunging learners into a realistic situation. In the course, learners are asked to understand and employ the evidence-based framework to research and develop an intervention strategy that addresses disparities in birth outcomes in a local community. Learners make a series of choices about finding data to accurately describe the problem, evaluate interventions based on evidence and applicability to the community, and defend their choices. The course outcome — securing funding for interventions chosen — depends on sound evidence-based decision-making. As learners work through their assigned tasks in the course, feedback alerts them to how well they have understood the material presented. Upon finishing the course, they may print out a certificate of completion. "From Evidence to Practice" is unique in its approach to web-based content delivery. Please let us know what you think by filling out the evaluation form at the end of the course. We look forward to your comments and suggestions for enhancements.
At the start of a new hurricane season, Gulf Coast residents have moved beyond the "lessons learned" stage and are forging ahead with rebuilding. Cenetral to those efforts is assuring health. While it has become clear that a sustainable health system requires engagement from other non-traditional health-related disciplines, the evidence base supporting such transdisciplinary approaches is sparse. This presentation is aimed at examining post-disaster health systems in three different geo-political settings to identify factors influencing sustainability. The interconnectedness of the three core public health functions at the system level will also be explored.
The Edison Township Department of Health and Human Services through its Municipal Alliance program has worked on gang prevention programming for over 10 years in cooperation with the Edison Police Department. This seminar is a case study that tracks the development of Edison's gang prevention programs within the community. The presenter will take the participants from initial discussions on low level gang activity, to documenting the progression of more aggressive gang activity. Participants will be given thorough survey data and the steps taken culminating in program development, expansion and entrenchment in the community. They will also be given information regarding the barriers faced in development and issues of implementation. They will also be presented with advantages of coalition-based programming housed within a public health department with cooperative implementation by a police department.
John W. Farrell is a graduate of Hunter College School of Social Work, where he earned an advanced degree in Social Work. He is currently employed at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey University Behavioral Healthcare’s Violence Institute. At the Violence Institute, Mr. Farrell provides training on gangs and gang interventions. Mr. Farrell also provides case management services for the Rutgers University Police Institute’s Greater Newark Safer Cities Initiative. Over the past thirty years John Farrell’s career before retirement has included several leadership positions within the Department of Health and Senior Services: Deputy Director for the Division of Addiction Services, Acting Assistant Commissioner for the Division of Addiction Services, Deputy Director for the Division of Narcotics and Drug Abuse Control, Acting Assistant Commissioner for the Division of Epidemiology and Disease Control, and Chief of Special Projects for the Division of Narcotics and Drug Abuse Control. During his career Mr. Farrell has been a field advisor for graduate students in Social Work at Columbia University School of Social Work, provided expert testimony to the House of Representatives Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control, personally or collaboratively published articles for the Journal of American Medical Association and the Centers for Disease Control for Morbidity and Mortality Supplement, and received numerous awards for Drug Treatment and Prevention.
This presentation further informs the viewer of the culture of gangs in New Jersey. He reviews what defines a gang, the risk factors that may push children into the culture, and, the roles and responsibilities of inter-agency collaboration as they relate to addressing gang involvement. This seminar also addresses the obligation of identifying problem areas in the community and drawing attention to them for improvement. It will also address the leadership principle of protecting citizens from injury (intentional and unintentional) within the community setting.
Today there are significant inadequacies in geriatric mental health practice and policy and a lack of linkage to public health and physical healthcare. This is amplified by the growth in our aging population. This presentation will provide an overview of geriatric mental health in New York State, the impending mental health challenges brought on by the massive growth of older adults that will take place over the next quarter century, and opportunities to improve on these issues.
Ellen Cohn, PhD from the University of Pittsburgh offers a two-part online presentation of basic concepts for beginning public speakers. Her recommendations are intertwined with clever quotations.
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.
As antibacterial resistance increases, treatment for Gonorrhea has become more difficult. In this presentation, Dr. Anne Rompalo discusses the morbidity trends and treatment recommendations for gonorrhea. At the end of this presentation, the learner will be able to:
Describe the current morbidity trends for gonorrhea in Federal Region III
Identify the current treatment recommendations for gonorrhea
Demonstrate knowledge of the clinical considerations for making a differential diagnosis of gonorrhea.
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 locating grant awarding organizations in Iowa, describing steps involved in preparing a grant application, describing the resources needed in preparing a grant application, discussing the reporting obligations once a grant is awarded, discussing the implications of grant awards to agency budgets, and identifying the additional resources for grant writers. There are four video clips in this course: What is a Grant?; Defining Grant Terms; Steps to Proposal Preparation; and Tips on Grant Writing.
This presentation by Jennifer Horney, MPH, gives you an introduction to funding for public health in America since September 11, 2001 and gives an overview of grantwriting as a way to secure funding for public health programs. The educational objectives include:
describe the history of and the current environment for public health funding; define federal, state, and local government funding priorities and mechanisms, as well as private foundations and other potential funders; and recognize the major content areas of a grant proposal and describe how they are developed, including budgets, workplans, technical approaches, and evaluation plans.
Successful decision-making in public health and health care administration requires the ability and agility to balance public policy, institutional strategy, program objectives, resource allocation, inter-disciplinary planning and consensus building, and "turf" issues. This seminar will discuss studying the players, politics, processes, skills and strategies needed to be developed to better understand, monitor, and actively influence health care policy making at the state and federal levels, on behalf of provider organizations, consumers, and advocacy groups. Participants will learn to be better advocates with government and how to develop collective partnerships with communities.
The strategies presented will address the need for the individual to understand that in “Guerilla Policy-fare” the process is disorderly, and rarely sequential. It typically involves multiple disciplines trained in different problem solving approaches and is colored by political considerations which are usually not clearly articulated. Participants will begin to understand that the process of advocacy has competitive elements with other providers and frequently moves very quickly.
In this process leadership will face complex problems or predicaments of reconciling priorities that may not be complimentary. This seminar will challenge participants thinking regarding approaches to policy planning, decision making, and resource allocation, with goals that are clear but political support is not.
Diane B. Wilson, EdD, RD and Mary S. McLellan, MS, RD of the Medical University of South Carolina developed this course introducing concepts such as health promotion and disease prevention. They present when and how prevention became part of health care and explain the determinants of health. The course ends with discussion questions.
This online course:
*Describes the scope of health economics and its key information resources
*Highlights the sources and characteristics of health care financing information in the U.S.
*Outlines issues relating to the quality of health economic evaluation studies
*Guides users in the identification, retrieval, and assessment of high quality health economic evaluation studies and related publications
At the end of this module the learner should be able to: (1) describe the history and basic concepts underlying accounting; (2) discuss the oversight structure for public financial reporting; (3) review income statements and communicate with accountants, auditors, and financial analysts concerning income statements.
This module discusses the history and financial consequences of organizing as a not-for-profit entity. The background material presented allows public health workers to: (1)appreciate the history and evolution of not-for-profits; (2) understand the process of organizing as a not-for-profit; and (3)determine the financial implications of not-for-profit organization. This understanding is particularly important since the not-for-profit sector accounts for approximately 80% of the hospitals in the U.S. and plays a key role in many other aspects of community health and health care delivery.
This module discusses health spending in the U.S. By the end of the presentation, the student should understand: (1) how much is spent in each segment of the U.S. health care system; (2) the key forces behind spending; and (3) spending trends over the past four decades. The most current data presented is from 2004.
At the end of this module the learner should be able to: (1) describe the Medicaid program and general concepts of differences among states' implementations; (2) articulate categories of people eligible for Medicaid and SCHIP; (3) discuss historical spending trends in Medicaid and sources of Medicaid funding.
At the end of this module the learner should be able to: (1) describe the historical evolution of Medicare in terms of both coverage and spending; (2) desribe the various Medicare "parts," including Part D (Medicare Prescription drug coverage); (3) demonstrate an understanding of how Medicare is funded and the challenges facing Medicare into the future.
At the end of this module the learner should be able to describe: (1) the history of the evolution of various organization forms; (2) the general legal and financial implications of various forms of entity organization under U.S. law.
Immigrants and migrant workers to the United States face a variety of barriers that may make access to health care difficult. These barriers can be linked to their economic, social, and cultural status. Health interventions for such populations circumvent barriers by being mindful of cultural and economic issues that may preclude families from receiving timely, quality health care. Such health interventions include conducting community outreach programs, providing culturally competent care, and providing education to immigrant and migrant populations. Such efforts connect families to health care and promote healthy living. Ultimately, health interventions for immigrant and migrant groups strive to alleviate health issues that are disproportionately high in such populations relative to the general population. Learning objectives:
* Identify two cultural barriers that make access to health care difficult.
* Name two interventions that may overcome the marginal economic status of some immigrants/migrant workers.
* Explain the benefits of using a multi-disciplinary team in providing health interventions for immigrant and migrant populations.
This training introduces the concept of health literacy; provides strategies for considering literacy when creating public health messages for the general public; and provides strategies for considering literacy in direct public health services to the public. The course consist of two modules. The first module, “Health Literacy & Public Health,” contains four sections. The content and activities demonstrates how the public’s literacy skills affect interactions with medical and public health staff. The second module, “Strategies for Improving Public Health Communications,” contains two sections and provides practical techniques for addressing literacy issues in spoken and written communications.
This training introduces the concept of health literacy; provides strategies for considering literacy when creating public health messages for the general public; and provides strategies for considering literacy in direct public health services to the public. The course consist of two modules. The first module, “Health Literacy & Public Health,” contains four sections. The content and activities demonstrates how the public’s literacy skills affect interactions with medical and public health staff. The second module, “Strategies for Improving Public Health Communications,” contains two sections and provides practical techniques for addressing literacy issues in spoken and written communications.
This UPitt Supercourse developed by Dorothea Luke, M.A.S begins with objectives, introduction, definitions and overviews of areas of health promotion. It proceeds on to some theoretical foundations and program planning frameworks, followed by examples of diverse areas of health promotion.
* Will take up to several hours if all additional links are pursued.
Dennis Raphael of the School of Health Policy and Management, York University Toronto, Canada offers a two part health promotion module. While some of his examples and slides may be difficult to comprehend via the web, he does an excellent job conveying three concepts of health and the various strategies, target populations, approaches and key players involved with each. These concepts of health are: medical (traditional), behavioral (lifestyle), and socio-environmental (structural). A section of part II of this lecture (http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec8461/index.htm) is dedicated to promoting a healthy community process (e.g. soliciting input from communities and other stakeholeders).
This course provides an overview of the principles of public health risk assessment and biological monitoring to assess exposure. The goal of this course is to increase the public health practitioner's knowledge of hazardous substances in the environment and to aid in the evaluation of potentially exposed individuals and communities. The process of health risk assessment and taking an exposure history is demonstrated using case studies and taking a clinical history approach to look at how to develop, implement and interpret an exposure history such that is included in the clinical evaluation of the patient.
This program will illustrate how the PACE-EH community engagement tool has helped communities clearly identify health, social and environmental problems driven by place-related elements within the community environment. It will highlight how this process has helped to focus community efforts and build coalitions for change across agencies and community groups for the overall public health and well-being of all citizens in a community.
This course is an interactive, problem-based teaching module based on a fictional outbreak of Hepatitis A. After completion of this course, viewers will be able to: describe how to determine whether an epidemic exists; list the steps in the investigation of an outbreak; discover the source of an outbreak; describe appropriate control measures; define terms including: population, cluster, outbreak, epidemic; draw a traditional epidemic curve; define, distinguish and calculate ratios, proportions, and rates; and explain the importance of collaboration between state and local health agencies in controlling and preventing communicable diseases.
This seminar focuses mainly upon the surveillance aspects of the epidemic. The presenter explores the changes in New Jersey HIV/AIDS reporting legislation and discusses the relevance of surveillance as a basis for public health action. Viewers are presented with techniques used to conduct surveillance, and address the national and statewide trends in the epidemic. Finally, the presenter gives an overview of programs and services that are available in New Jersey for HIV prevention, care, and treatment.
Speaker: Barbara J. Bolden, Ph.D., CPM - Acting Director of the Division of HIV/AIDS Services, Epidemiologic Services, New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, Trenton, New Jersey.
Speakers:
Karen Schimke - President and CEO
Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy
Peggy Sheehan RN BSN IBCLC
Program Manager
Schenectady County Public Health Services
This program will provide insight into the different models of home visiting, and highlight Schenectady County’s home visiting programs. Peggy Sheehan will share key lessons learned in Schenectady, and provide practical advice for enhancing program success. Karen Schimke will provide an overview of the research on home visiting, models of home visiting in New York State, and their relative strengths.
This training includes three presentations: Performance Standards as Good Policy, Health Performance Research Findings, and Health Performance Standards Program.
This presentation consists of a review of the 10 Essential Public Health Services that describe how a system promotes and protects population health. It also shows how the 10 Essential Services contributed greatly to the development of the Operational Definition of a Local Health department, upon which the forthcoming national accreditation standards will be heavily based. It finally addresses the relationship of the NJ Practice Standards to both the Operational Definition as well as the 10 Essential Public Health Services to determine the degree to which their health departments are prepared for voluntary accreditation.
This presentation consists of a review of the 10 Essential Public Health Services that describe how a system promotes and protects population health. It also shows how the 10 Essential Services contributed greatly to the development of the Operational Definition of a Local Health department, upon which the forthcoming national accreditation standards will be heavily based. It finally addresses the relationship of the NJ Practice Standards to both the Operational Definition as well as the 10 Essential Public Health Services to determine the degree to which their health departments are prepared for voluntary accreditation.
Speaker: Natalie Pawlenko, MSW - Manager, Office of Public Health Infrastructure,
Division of Health Infrastructure Preparedness and Emergency Response, NJ Department of Health & Senior Services
This NJ SOPHE course offers a step-by-step account of how to be involved in the legislative process. In easy to comprehend language one learns about advocating for public health policy via the following strategies: testifying, letter writing, calling, developing grassroots support, and using media. A concise synopsis of how a bill becomes a law is also provided.
This course describes essential strategies to improve effectiveness when dealing with all types of interpersonal and group conflicts that may be experienced with co-workers, bosses, and employees in the workplace. With the right strategies, even conflict-avoiders and in-your-face confrontational types will learn ways to increase their chances of achieving win-win outcomes, while improving interpersonal communication in the process.
This presentation regarding the HPV vaccine will discuss the epidemiological origins and transmission of genital human papilloma virus infections. It will take a look at the public health impact that HPV is having on the society. The presenter will delve into options that people have from a preventive perspective regarding the avoidance of contracting the disease, and it will discuss options patients have once diagnosed with this disease.
Kristi L. Ebi, PhD, MPH, presents information on the intersection of climate change and health. The lecture includes an overview on the science of predicting climate change, the causes of climate change, and the health impacts of climate change around the world.
