Course Details

Course Number: WB1248

Course Title: Public Health Assessment Overview 3 - Evaluating
Health Effects Data and Determining Conclusions
and Recommendations

Authors: Gail Godfrey, Environmental Health Scientist, ATSDR
               Bob Kay, DrPH, Environmental Health Scientist, ATSDR

Course Details:
Describes the types of health effects databases available for a community and how to evaluate existing health studies. Covers conclusion categories, recommendations to reduce or prevent exposure, characterizes the site and possible exposures, or identify health activities that are service- or research-oriented, and the development of public health action plans to implement recommendations.

Learning objectives for this course:

After completing this educational activity, participants should be able to:

1. List six data sources where a health assessor can find health information about a community.
2. List three criteria for deciding whether or not to perform a health outcome data evaluation.
3. Write a public health action plan based on the conclusions and recommendations that result from the public health assessment process.

Accreditation:

• Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) credit
  This activity for 1.25 contact hours is provided by CDC, which is accredited as a provider of continuing education in nursing by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

• Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit
  CDC is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. CDC designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.25 hours in category 1 credit toward the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

• Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) credit
  CDC is a designated provider of continuing education contact hours in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is a designated event for CHES to receive 1.0 hours in category 1 credit in health education, CDC provider number GA0082.

• Continuing Education Unit (CEU) credit
  CDC has been approved as an authorized provider of continuing education and training programs by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training and awards 0.1 Continuing Education Units (CEUs).

• Completion Certificate (Non Credit- NC)
  While no accreditation is provided, this completion certificate represents 1.25 contact hours of course work with the ATSDR Environmental Public Health Training Program. This completion certificate is generally accepted by most professional registrations and certifications.

Disclosure:

Our Subject Matter Experts wish to disclose that they have no financial interests or other relationships with manufacturers of commercial products, providers of commercial services, or commercial supporters.

Presentations will not include any discussion of, or the unlabeled use of, commercial products or products for investigational use.