Title
Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
Public Health to the Rescue: Emergency Response is Now a Core Function
  • General Public Health
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This program will examine the roles played by three state public health agencies in the response and recovery phases of Hurricane Katrina, specifically with respect to the public health core functions. The State Health Officers from Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi will discuss how their agencies roles in assessment, policy development, and assurance were affected by this disaster. They will discuss as a group: what worked and what didn't; and what should be modified for the future.
Preventive Medicine and Training the Doctors of Tomorrow
  • General Public Health
  • 1.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This course will cover important details of the medical specialty of preventive medicine. The course also cites examples and statistics of preventable mortality in the United States and worldwide. The Preventive Medicine Residency Program offered at Tulane University School of Medicine is described in detail.
Changing World of Work – Are You Changing Too?
  • General Public Health
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:Business as usual is over, even in health care and public health. This program will challenge you to adopt a proactive stance to your work life. Program faculty will provide insight on how to position yourself to not only survive but also thrive in this new world of work. Note: This course was originally delivered as a satellite broadcast.
Social Media: The Blurring of Professional Boundaries
  • General Public Health
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:Social media has become a great way to connect with people, but in the healthcare profession, social networking can often blur the ethical lines in a patient-provider relationship. Postings on Facebook and similar sites have cost some healthcare professionals their jobs and some others have even lost their license to practice. Program faculty will explore the issues which make social media a potential liability for healthcare providers and discuss ways to teach professionals how to avoid the misuse of this new media.
Cultural Competency for Community Management of Special Needs Patients in Disaster
  • General Public Health
  • 4.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:Disaster imposes adverse consequences upon a community and its people. Disasters can injure the physical infrastructure and disrupt social integration and the capability to provide basic elements of the population’s fundamental needs. Additional and exceptional vulnerabilities may be revealed by crisis, especially among community members with special needs.  These include members of sub-populations who have not yet been entirely integrated into community life and plans or whose lifestyle and customs place them at additional peril.
Public Health Insurance
  • General Public Health
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This course provides background on the history, growth and issues surrounding managed health care and health insurance. Among the items covered are the development of group practice, types of managed care, the HMO-effect versus favorable selection, costs, ratings and alternative forms of insurance.
Public Health Information Systems
  • General Public Health
  • 7.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This course will introduce participants to the concept of medical/health informatics and provide some general examples of information technology as applied in health care. The focus is at the system level, not individual applications. The course also defines the national [health] information infrastructure and initiates discussion about the recommendations from the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics.
Leadership, Strategic Planning and Systems Approaches
  • General Public Health
  • 10.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This course encourages participants to think strategically about the types of decisions made in public health organizations and provides students with strategic analysis and planning skills.
Community Partnerships and Perspectives - Basic Level
  • General Public Health
  • 1.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This course provides an introduction and overview to community partnerships and perspectives series. It will familiarize you with concepts and skills necessary in working with communities to improve public health. At various points throughout the course you will be prompted to complete exercises that can be found in the course workbook.
Community Needs Assessment
  • General Public Health
  • 4.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:Assessing community needs is part of the ongoing process of program planning in many types of health, education and social service agencies. For several decades, public health professionals have conducted needs assessments to facilitate the design, implementation and evaluation of a variety of disease prevention and health promotion programs. This course provides students with the opportunity to focus their thinking on why and how to conduct needs assessments. Basic concepts and practice methods are reviewed.

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