This course is offered periodically through NWCPHP, and we are pleased to announce the next training is scheduled for May 17 and 18 in Anchorage, Alaska. Register by May 4.
This training is open to any public health worker who wishes to gain insight into how housing and health are related. It is also recommended for housing inspectors, building officials, energy and weatherization contractors or any one who has need to visit homes in their work. During the training, participants will learn about specific environmental hazards that occur in homes. The training will also cover the seven principles of healthy housing.
]]>This forum permits coordination, collaboration and interaction amongst the target audience--the leaders and members of these preparedness and response partner organizations. The Integrated Training Summit will enhance the knowledge, skills and abilities of participants, which in turn will improve their capability to deliver public health and medical care services during disasters of any origin. Expert faculty will present on key focus areas; Healthcare Systems, Leadership, Public Health, Resource Management & Patient Movement, and Response Integration/Operational Medicine. Networking with these expert faculty members and fellow participants, many of whom are the nation's leaders in the area of public health emergencies, will provide insight into the latest information available in the area of emergency response and coordination.
The vision for the 2012 Integrated Medical, Public Health, Preparedness and Response Training Summit is to have a robust, well-trained and integrated pool of public health and medical responders who understand their roles and missions in times of need, as well as those of their response partners, in order to best serve our communities, States, Tribes, and the Nation.
The Integrated Training Summit will achieve this vision by convening a forum for conducting training, discussing issues, sharing information, and networking amongst the constituent groups of various national-level organizations involved in preparing for and responding to public health and medical emergency events. Some specific strategies for 2012 include:
Treating both children and their families, family medicine practices provide natural settings to conduct developmental and psychosocial screening. The feasibility of implementing screening in these busy settings is unknown. In a frontier rural setting we conducted a pilot study to assess the use of a standardized process, including validated instruments to screen for developmental and psychosocial issues among children and their families. The results of the study will be presented with an emphasis on practice and community motivation and capability.
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In this presentation Susan Thompson will talk about the work of the Healthy Built Environments Program in the City Futures Research Centre at the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia). Susan will give an overview of the Program (which is principally funded by the State Government's Department of Health), the interdisciplinary work and advocacy underway, some of the Program's current research and educational activities and the challenges posed by working across the health and built environment disciplines.
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Associate Professor Susan Thompson has nearly 35 years of experience as an urban planning practitioner, teacher and researcher. She is Director of the Healthy Built Environments Program, City Futures Research Centre, Faculty of the Built Environment, University of NSW, Sydney Australia. Over the years Susan has received various awards for her contributions to planning scholarship. Her prize winning edited text, Planning Australia, published by Cambridge University Press, is now in its second edition.
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The Northwest Center for Public Health Practice and the Department of Urban Design and Planning invite you to attend the monthly meeting of the Seattle Healthy Places Research Group (HPRG). This group welcomes public health and planning faculty, researchers, students, practitioners, and others interested in exploring the relationship between the built environment and the health of communities.
]]>Welcome to the 2012 ACHNE Annual Institute. This year we are working on an exciting program, offering you a wealth of opportunities for professional development and personal enjoyment. Join us in Portland for inspiring speakers, informative workshops and opportunities for networking and dialogue. Take time to connect with old friends and make new ones during the social activities. And finally, enjoy the sights and sounds of Portland in June!
Purpose
To provide community/public health nurse educators innovative, effective, evidenced-based strategies to meet twenty-first century public health priorities.
Intended Audience
Public health nurses, managers, public health and community health nurse educators, students, and partners interested in public health nursing issues.
Conference objectives
Upon completion of this conference the participant will be able to:
Continuing Education:
Contact hours have been applied for from North Carolina Nurse’s Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission of Accreditation.
NACCHO Annual 2012 will provide an interactive setting for local health officials and their public health partners from around the country to examine strategies, share ideas, and plan actions necessary for public health leaders to create and build upon a forward-looking vision of local public health through disease-prevention interventions and wellness promotion, elimination of health inequities among individuals and communities, and expanded leadership capacity within local health departments.
2012 Conference Theme and Session Tracks
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The Climate Change Conference is for any person with an interest in, and concern for, scientific, policy and strategic perspectives in climate change. It will address a range of critically important themes relating to the vexing question of climate change. Plenary speakers will include some of the world’s leading thinkers in the fields of climatology and environmental science, as well as numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by researchers and practitioners.
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