This UPitt Supercourse developed by Virginia M. Dato, MD, MPH, a public health physician from the Center for Public Health Practice at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, provides an historical overview of how public health progressed to where it is now. Numerous links to additional information are provided. *Course will take longer than 25 minutes if user chooses to pursue additional web links that are provided throughout course.
This program will seek to increase awareness of efforts to operationally define local public health agencies and the intended outcomes of this process.
Public Health 101 Online is a free Continuing Education accredited on-line introduction to the field of Public Health. It provides information on the fundamentals of U.S. Public Health.
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 roles and issues that occur in the management of a local public health agency, how to balance public health functions within a multi-focused agency, the identification of training needs within an agency and how to address these needs, & environmental health enforcement issues that may occur when contracting with local boards of health.
There are four video clips in this course: Roles of a Public Health Administrator; Staff Training; Dealing with Burnout; and Other Aspects of Managing a Public Health Agency.
This is the introductory course in the New Public Health Administrators Series.
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.
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 presentation is part of the New York/New Jersey Education and Research Center 28th Annual Scientific Meeting on occupational health disparities and occupational health issues in the changing workforce. In this presentation, the speaker discusses work-related fatalities and OSHA's mission and strategic outlook plan. Other topics include: enforcement; cooperative programs; and outreach programs.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
Sexual harassment is a pervasive problem impacting the lives of many low wage immigrant women. Women employed in agricultural work and other low wage jobs, like hotel housekeepers, restaurant employees, and
factory workers, face sexual violence in the workplace at alarming rates. For these women, sexual harassment ranges from inappropriate touching and comments to rape. These women are often unfamiliar with their rights and are
usually non-English speakers, so many never admit to being harassed. Medical providers play a key role in identifying and treating low wage women who suffer from workplace sexual
violence. However, sometimes protocols are not in place to help identify a woman who is suffering from this violence.
Since 2003, Esperanza: The Immigrant Women’s Legal Initiative has worked to build a collaborative initiative with a range of providers, including healthcare providers, to combat the problem of sexual violence against farmworker and other low wage women. The EEOC and Oregon Law Center have worked with Esperanza since 2006 as a part of the
Esperanza National Working Group. Learn more about the problem and what you can do to help reverse an alarming trend.
The following learning objectives can be met by reviewing the entire Opening the Mouth program.
* Describe the connection between oral health and overall health
* Characterize dental caries as an infectious, transmissible, communicable disease
* State the prevalence, acuity and consequence of dental disease
* Differentiate the dental care finance, delivery and workforce issues from analogous medical care issues
* List general action steps that can be taken to decrease oral health disparities
* Describe action steps specific to Title V Maternal and Child Health Federal Block Grant programs that can be taken to decrease oral health disparities
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 online module presents basic public health concepts including: the principles of public health, essential services of public health, the importance of collaboration across governmental and private sector entities, achievements and future challenges of public health, and cultural competency. Application of these elements is stressed through two case studies: public health emergency response to an anhydrous ammonia spill, and an American Indian community that is faced with increasing obesity and diabetes rates among school-age children.
