Title
Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
  • 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.
  • Maternal and Child Health
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:To date, the majority of research and policy efforts to prevent child maltreatment have been focused on individual and family level programs, such as home visiting, that target at-risk families. In contrast, population-level strategies aiming to shift social norms relevant to child maltreatment have been relatively under-studied and under-developed. Yet such approaches have led to great public health advances, shifting norms related to tobacco use, seat belt use, drunk driving, and violence against women.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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