Title
Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
- General Public Health
- 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
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. In turn, issues related to measuring and assessing the effects of these efforts have become much more salient. Issues surrounding who should serve as evaluators, what behaviors or outcomes should be included in the evaluation process and what impact the organization itself has on the outcomes are increasingly significant.
- General Public Health
- 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
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? With all the attention that "win-win" approaches get these days, is collaboration always the best way to resolve differences? Is there an element that is common to both collaborating with partners and resolving differences with them?
- General Public Health
- 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
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. Conflict management is a constructive way of approaching this natural phenomenon so that the result is a positive outcome.
- General Public Health
- 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
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? Did you know the plan will greatly expand Medicaid, while cutting from the Medicare program? The law also requires all Americans and legal citizens to have health insurance and will penalize those who are not covered.
- Environmental Health
- 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
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? Is it safe to go to the beach? In order to assess the public health effects, it's important to understand the components and characteristics of oil. This course will provide information about crude oil, weathered oil, and dispersants.
- General Public Health
- 3.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
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. This course will discuss the post-oil spill issues related to public health. The discussion will include issues associated with recovery, various exposure pathways, response efforts in retrospect, and the public health response in the coming years.
- General Public Health
- 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
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. Finding long term solutions to making lifestyle changes that people are able to incorporate and continue is the real challenge. This course provides public health professionals with strategies to use with their patient population to promote behavioral changes necessary for sustained weight loss.
- General Public Health
- 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
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. This session was conducted by Harold Suire, a consultant with over 20 years experience in the state policy arena, who was called upon by the state of Louisiana in the aftermath of Katrina to coordinate the myriad of groups and foundations from throughout the nation and world.
- General Public Health
- 8.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This course targets any level public health professionals who are involved in project or programmatic design and implementation. This course provides public health professionals with the planning cycle of a public health program, including the assessment of needs and resources, the development and implementation of solutions to perceived problems, and the monitoring and evaluation of activities. The course will focus around the Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation (PIE) model.
- General Public Health
- 3.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
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. 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.