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- Behavioral Health
- 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:In this course, the instructors will discuss the public health workforce shortage as well as succession planning, a key element in addressing that shortage.
- Behavioral Health
- 7.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This course is a continuation of the "Community Partnerships and Perspectives - Intermediate Level" course, ideally taken soon after the Intermediate level course. The course will explore methods for identifying and analyzing community health problems and their causes. The course stresses community organization skills and their application.
- Behavioral Health
- 5.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:The course will describe the biological processes underlying the most important causes of morbidity and mortality in the U.S. and connect these with community disease prevention/health promotion strategies. For each health problem, the course will review:
- Behavioral Health
- 5.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:Once the survival needs of people impacted by a disaster are stable, the important work of rebuilding the collective social network and individual lives in the community can begin. Disaster and Crisis Intervention (DCI) Facilitation processes use proven professional group facilitation skills and processes to equip individuals in the affected communities with tools that help in their psycho-social reconstruction.
- Behavioral Health
- 4.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This course consists of two parts. Part one will discuss vectors of health importance in a disaster. This part will address vectors such as mosquitoes, flies, ticks, fleas and rodents. It will also focus on the factors affecting transmission of vectors of disease and methods of control. Part two will discuss evaluation and control strategies in a disaster.
- Behavioral Health
- 5.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This course will familiarize POD workers and public health personnel with the basic purpose, constitution and operations of a Point of Dispensing during a disaster. This course will cover topics such as selecting and designing a site, as well as administration and logistics issues such as supplies, staff roles and training, patient flows, operations and security. Risk communication regarding POD operations will also be discussed in this course. Finally, there will be a short discussion on the closing of a POD.
- Behavioral Health
- 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This course discusses risk communication in emergency preparedness situations such as disasters and crises. It describes how to use communications to offset threats that people experience in these situations. Common patterns such as information processing, values and emotions, as well as systems and environments are discussed. Also discussed are strategies for dealing with the media, constructing a message using the 27/9/3 rule of communication, perceptual congruence, visuals, language, anchors and framing.
- Behavioral Health
- 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:Environmental health practitioners have important roles and must perform a number of critical functions during emergency response such as, conducting shelter assessments, testing drinking water supplies, conducting food safety inspections, and controlling disease-causing vectors. In order to improve response times, efficiency and overall organization, some state, local and federal entities have formed environmental health response teams.
- Behavioral Health
- 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:The fields of crisis communication and disaster behavioral health have knowledge that can be mutually beneficial when disaster strikes. In the aftermath of a disaster, effective communication with the public plays a critical role in determining whether or not the public adheres to recommendations from officials. Understanding how individuals and groups behave in emergencies allows for messaging that is more likely to be understood and acted upon. In turn, effective messages can minimize helplessness and foster resilience.
- Behavioral Health
- 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:On August 31, 2005, the landfall of Hurricane Katrina and its associated storm surge resulted in the destruction of large areas of Louisiana, which included Plaquemines and St. Bernard Parishes and the cities of Slidell and New Orleans. Three weeks later, Hurricane Rita pushed a second record storm surge over the western coast of Louisiana, destroying huge areas of Cameron and Vermillion Parishes. Vector control became an issue of utmost importance.