Evaluating Organizational Effectiveness

Course Description:Recently, an emphasis has been placed on the effects that various training and development initiatives have had on enhancing the capacity of the public health workforce and related organizational effectiveness.
Category
- General Public Health
Format
- Self-study / Enduring
Credits
- 2.00 Participation/CE
Cost $0.00
Inescapable Realities in Public Health - Conflict and Collaboration: Building Competency

Course Description:Have you ever found yourself in a conflict, either professional or personal, with no idea how to get out of it without simply surrendering or fighting back? Just how is it that conflict seems to arise so often?
Category
- General Public Health
Format
- Self-study / Enduring
Credits
- 2.00 Participation/CE
Cost $0.00
Conflict Management: Lessons From the Field

Course Description:Conflict is a normal part of our everyday life both at home and in the workplace. Mismanaged conflict has both direct and indirect costs as it decreases productivity, increases problems with morale and increases liability.
Category
- General Public Health
Format
- Self-study / Enduring
Credits
- 2.00 Participation/CE
Cost $0.00
Health Care Reform: An Overview of the New Legislation

Course Description:The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act became law in March but how many people really know how their health care coverage will be affected, and as a health care provider can you provide answers to questions patients might have?
Category
- General Public Health
Format
- Self-study / Enduring
Credits
- 2.00 Participation/CE
Cost $0.00
The Gulf Oil Spill: The Environmental Impact

Course Description:The explosion of the Deepwater Horizon on April 2010 and the consequent Gulf Oil Spill has raised many public health questions. Will the oil make me sick? What could be in the air? Is the seafood that gets to market safe?
Category
- Environmental Health
Format
- Self-study / Enduring
Credits
- 2.00 Participation/CE
Cost $0.00
The Gulf Oil Spill: The Public Health Impact

Course Description:It’s been one year since the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon and the consequent Gulf Oil Spill. The oil spill itself was an acute event but the long term follow up will be with public health professionals for many years to come.
Category
- General Public Health
Format
- Self-study / Enduring
Credits
- 3.00 Participation/CE
Cost $0.00
Behavioral Obesity Treatment: Today's State of the Art

Course Description:Obesity is a public health epidemic that’s affecting millions of Americans. Research shows that weight loss isn’t as much the problem as weight maintenance seems to be.
Category
- General Public Health
Format
- Self-study / Enduring
Credits
- 2.00 Participation/CE
Cost $0.00
Lessons From the Storm: Crisis and Collaboration

Course Description:The lessons learned, and lessons still being taught, from Hurricane Katrina can assist all healthcare and family assistance providers in providing for future disasters.
Category
- General Public Health
Format
- Self-study / Enduring
Credits
- 2.00 Participation/CE
Cost $0.00
Needs Assessment and Evaluation

Course Description:This course targets any level public health professionals who are involved in project or programmatic design and implementation.
Category
- General Public Health
Format
- Self-study / Enduring
Credits
- 8.00 Participation/CE
Cost $0.00
Public Health Economics

Course Description: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.
Category
- General Public Health
Format
- Self-study / Enduring
Credits
- 3.00 Participation/CE
Cost $0.00