Goal: To provide information on the importance and need for local health authorities to implement integrated pest management as a systems approach in the management of pests and vectors.
Joseph Ponessa, PhD from the Rutgers Cooperative Extension at Rutgers University, presents what asthma is and how it can be controlled, prevented and treated. He shares simple methods for eradicating asthma triggers.
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
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 CD-Rom's topic is Tuberculosis and includes a documentary, an extensive interactive core curriculum and delivers important statistical data for the state of Indiana.
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 key considerations in developing a marketing strategy for public health, the inter-dependency of marketing strategy elements, & effective communication techniques and common pitfalls. There are three video clips in this course: Developing a Marketing Strategy; Other Considerations; and Media Pointers.
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.
One in every two women and one in every four men over age 50 will have an osteoporosis-related fracture in her or his remaining lifetime. Osteoporosis is often considered a disease that affects only older individuals. However, prevention strategies (including proper diet and regular exercise) can help promote healthy bones throughout life. Drs. Kemmis and Nieves will explain the public health significant of osteoporosis, its prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
Considering the magnitude of violence in many of the cities of America, difficult challenges confront law enforcement agencies, public school districts and community residents. Col. Harry Corbitt, a veteran of the NYS Police, will describe the breadth of approaches used in Albany, NY to prevent school violence. However, school violence goes beyond the extreme physical assaults and also includes the day to day bullying and disrespect that can lead to violent outbursts or suicide. Ira Baumgarten, and NCBI facilitator, will explain how their program, Building a Caring School Environment, helps to recreate a safer school for students and teachers alike.
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.
David Shaffer, MD, a world-renowned child psychiatrist and expert on adolescent suicide, will present a comprehensive overview of what we know about the underlying causes of youth suicide and the early identification on an evidence-based mental health and suicide risk screening program, developed as a direct outgrowth of his research on adolescent suicide.
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.
This course has three main learning objectives: (1) to name the four levels of evaluation and the reasons for conducting them; (2) to describe the four levels of evaluation; and (3) to describe when and how the different levels of evaluation would be used.
Join Dr. Gortmaker as he explores the effects of TV watching on children's activity levels, and pinpoints TV use as the single best predictor of childhood obesity. His research has found that the causes of the epidemic are rooted in the success of the food, television/film/videogame and advertising industries to encourage our children to buy more, eat more and watch more. He will discuss interventions and policies that can reduce excessive television viewing by children.
Economics is the study of choices in a world of scarcity. In this course we explore how markets function by examining the demand behavior of consumers and the supply behavior of firms. We explore how market-based factors and governmental policies impact market outcomes. The concepts of private and social welfare are introduced as a framework for assessing the performance of markets. The course concludes with an application of economic tools to the policy issue of cigarette smoking. The course consists of eight separate modules, each of which is approximately 10 minutes in length. The material is quite general in nature, and is intended to improve the ability of preparedness professionals to project how markets will respond to significant public health events.
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 National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) defines workplace violence as "violent acts (including physical assaults and threats of assaults) directed toward persons at work or on duty." This includes terrorism as illustrated by the terrorist acts of September 11, 2001 that resulted in the deaths of 2,886 workers in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania. Incidents of work related violence were virtually unheard of until the 1970s. Since then, it has more than tripled. There are many contributing factors and social issues, especially substance abuse, illegal drugs, access to guns, the portrayal of violence in the news media, online games, TV and movies layoffs, and poverty are major contributors to occupational violence. The goal of the program is to provide an overview to address potential or actual workplace violence.
This seminar will present information on epidemiology of tuberculosis, both globally and in the United States. Tuberculosis continues to be a major public health threat globally; in 2006 there were 9.2 million new cases of tuberculosis and 1.7 million deaths from TB worldwide. The seminar will also discuss current challenges to TB control including drug resistance, the TB/HIV co-epidemic and lack of resources for diagnosis and treatment in international settings. Tuberculosis is still a challenge in the United States as well, particularly in specific populations. Since TB is airborne and a person with infectious TB can be a threat to public health, a system of public health regulations exists around diagnosis, reporting, and treatment. The seminar will also provide an overview of the public health practices and infrastructure involved in TB control nationally, and specifically in New Jersey.
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.
Dr. Bernard Guyer and Dr. Isabelle Horon discuss how new vital statistics data collected via the new U.S. Standard Birth Certificate can be used at the local level for surveillance and policy-making. At the end of this session, the learner will be able to:
Identify the modified and new birth certificate items;
Discuss techniques to assess such data;
Explain the roles of vital statistics: civil registration, public health data and surveillance, national security; and
Discuss the effects of years of underfunding on national data and present a vision for future improvements
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.
