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- Louisiana Hurricane Response Hub (LaHRH)
- 1.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:LaHRH 102: Mold Exposure and Health Effects is second in a four-course learning series. After natural disasters such as hurricanes and floods, excess moisture and standing water contribute to the growth of mold in homes and other buildings. When returning to a home that has been flooded, be aware that mold may be present and may be a health risk for your family.
- 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.
- Louisiana Hurricane Response Hub (LaHRH)
- 1.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:LaHRH 104: Protecting Your Private Well Water is last in a four-course learning series. The goal of this course is to improve understanding and preparedness for safely managing well water after hurricane and flooding events. This course is designed to provide general guidance and training to the public health workforce, response workers, volunteers, and community members who deal with well water hazards that arise after hurricanes and floods occur in Louisiana.
- Prepardness
- 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:Public health was not a profession until the early 20th century following the movement to institutionalize and link health education to medical training. Historically, the concepts of health are rooted in the cultural perceptions surrounding health predominant for the period. Archeological evidence gives us an indication of how these concepts of health evolved over time and impacted the practice of maintaining the health of the population, even affecting how we think of health in the current age.
- Prepardness
- 7.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:The course will introduce key concepts in epidemiology that are needed for public health practice. These concepts include the measures of disease frequency, principles and techniques of surveillance, outbreak investigation, measures of association used in epidemiologic studies, causal reasoning, confounding, bias, and epidemiologic study design.
- Vector Control for Environmental Health Professionals (VCEHP)
- 1.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:VCEHP101: Vector-Borne Diseases of Public Health Importance is first in a eleven-course learning series.
- Vector Control for Environmental Health Professionals (VCEHP)
- 1.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:VCEHP 102: IPM Basics for Environmental Health Professionals is second in a eleven-course learning series. This course provides a basic overview of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) for Environmental Health Professionals. IPM is an effective and environmentally sensitive approach to pest management that relies on a combination of common-sense practices, judicious use of pesticides and comprehensive information on the life cycles of pests and their interaction with the environment.
- Vector Control for Environmental Health Professionals (VCEHP)
- 1.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:VCEHP103: Performance Assessment and Improvement of Vector Control Services is third in a eleven-course learning series. The improvement of the performance of Environmental Public Health Services is critical to the public health needs of communities. Environmental health departments can increase the effectiveness and efficiency of their services by incorporating the 10 Essential Environmental Public Health Services into programs and activities, such as vector control.
- Vector Control for Environmental Health Professionals (VCEHP)
- 1.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:VCEHP 104: Tick Biology and Control is fourth in a eleven-course learning series.
- Vector Control for Environmental Health Professionals (VCEHP)
- 1.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:VCEHP105: Mosquito Biology and Control is fifth in a eleven-course learning series.