A comprehensive survey of Public/Community Health Nursing developed by the NYS Nurses Association with support from NYSDOH. Includes on-line text and pictures (text is downloadable); off-line exercises; and a post-test. Approved for 9.6 CEU contact hours.
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.
Contamination of surface and ground water resources by pharmaceuticals and other organics has been emerging as a major public health issue over the last decade. This case-study follows the background, investigation and management of a hypothetical site in the United States, to demonstrate common features of organic/pharmaceutical contamination. New topics introduced involve innovations in investigation and exposure assessment, and management protocols.
At the end of this course, you as a learner will be able to
1. Define sources and migration paths of common contaminants in water resources
2. Discuss human health and ecological impacts
3. Examine innovations in exposure assessment
4. Illustrate management concepts
5. Identify available resources
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. 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.
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.
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.
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.
This lecture, designed for maternal, child, and family health professionals in public health systems and partner organizations, describes strategies used in community based participatory research to eliminate health disparities. It emphasizes the leadership role individuals can play in mobilizing community resources to plan targeted initiatives and empower communities to engage in meaningful health planning efforts. In addition, the presentation includes examples of “best practices” from successful community initiatives.
The goal of the New York State Department of Health's regulations for swimming pools, bathing beaches and water parks is to assure that patrons are protected against drowning, other injuries and illness while participating in water-related recreational activities. Mr. Sackett will review incidents that have occurred in the state and discuss contributing factors and ways in which these injuries and illnesses can be prevented.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
In this presentation, Daniel Webster, ScD, MPH, along with staff of the Safe Streets program in Baltimore City, discuss this unique approach to reducing gun violence and it's impact, based on their research. At the end of this session, the learner will be able to:
Identify a variety of public health strategies to reducing gun violence;
Describe how Ceasefire/ Safe Streets addresses gun violence with a multi-faceted intervention to prevent shootings; and
Discuss evaluation findings of the impact of Ceasefire/Safe Streets.
In this presentation, Stephen Schenkel, MD, MPP, and Barbara DiPietro, PhD discuss frequent use of the Emergency Department by homeless populations. This includes research conducted about frequent Baltimore Emergency Department visitors, a review of the literature, and tested solutions. At the end of this session, the learner will be able to:
Identify what we already know about homeless use of the Emergency Department;
Discuss the findings of the study of frequent Baltimore Emergency Department visitors and homelessness; and
Describe solutions to the problem.
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
