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LaHRH103: Heat-Related Illness - Risk Factors, Types & Prevention
  • Louisiana Hurricane Response Hub (LaHRH)
  • 1.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
 Course Description:LaHRH 103: Heat-Related Illness - Risk Factors, Types & Prevention is third in a four-course learning series. 
Infectious Disease
  • Behavioral Health
  • 4.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This course is a three-module sequence covering a sampling of those areas of infectious disease relevant to public health professionals in the United States. The modules begin by discussing areas considered by the CDC to be the most important public health successes of the 20th century. Control of certain major infectious diseases is a significant aspect of these successes. The modules then discuss the major gram positive and gram-negative bacterial illnesses, selected viral, protozoal, prior, rickettsial and vaccine preventable disease.
The Management of Epidemic Disease
  • Behavioral Health
  • 5.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:Population growth, societal aging, urbanization, rapid transportation, economic interdependence, and emerging infectious disease have expanded community vulnerability far beyond what could have been imagined a few generations ago. But, an expansion of medical technology has provided an array of tools and techniques for therapeutics and public health disease management never before imagined.
Coaching and Mentoring: Learning with and from Others
  • Leadership Development
  • 3.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:Learners participating in this web-based course will examine how individuals can purposefully learn with, and from, others. Within a conception of mentoring as a continuum of supportive relationships ranging from role modeling, coaching, advising, supervising, and mentoring, participants will examine and differentiate these types of learning activities, and in particular, coaching and mentoring relationships.
Mosquito Abatement in Louisiana Post Katrina and Rita
  • 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.
Community Management of High-Dose Radiological Events
  • Behavioral Health
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:According to recent threat analyses, the potential use of a Radiation Dispersal Device (RDD) remains the most likely exposure to weapons of mass destruction which American citizens are likely to experience.
Radiological Events in a Community: High-Dose
  • Behavioral Health
  • 4.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:The requirements for a vastly expanded supply of energy worldwide combined with nuclear proliferation and a more aggressive international posture for the development, deployment and potential use of nuclear weapons either for strategic or tactical purposes has created an environment for public health professionals in the 21st century thoroughly different than that which has ever existed in the course of human scientific and political evolution.
Bioterrorism Preparedness: Factors for the Emergence/Reemergence of Infectious Diseases
  • Behavioral Health
  • 6.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:The emergence and reemergence of infectious diseases poses new challenges to the public health community. We have witnessed emergence of new infections such as SARS and an increase in the incidence of infections such as tuberculosis during the last decade. Understanding the factors associated with the emergence and reemergence of infectious disease is central for designing prevention and control strategies.
Radiological Events in a Community: Low-Dose
  • Behavioral Health
  • 3.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:According to recent threat analyses, the potential use of a Radiation Dispersal Device (RDD) remains the most likely exposure to weapons of mass destruction which American citizens are likely to experience.
Biological Response Preparedness for Emergency Medical Services
  • Bioterrorism Preparedness
  • 4.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This course is offered to better prepare the emergency medical services, public health officials and other first responder agencies, including law enforcement officers, for an incident involving Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). A special emphasis is placed on biological response preparedness for emergency medical services, including an overview on both trauma and chemical injury triage using the nationally recognized Simple Triage and Rapid Treatment (START) system.

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