4260.2: Tuesday, November 18, 2003: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| Primary health care providers are not well prepared to diagnose, treat and prevent health effects due to environmental exposures. At a national forum held in Washington DC many leaders in medicine, nursing, and environmental health identified strategies and specific action items for integrating environmental health into primary health care education and practice. This session will highlight these strategies and action items, and describe specific initiatives aiming to integrate environmental health throughout various stages of education and clinical practice for health care providers. | |||
| Learning Objectives: Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:1) articulate the strategies and actions needed to incorporate environmental health into health care 2) describe initiatives to integrate environmental health into health care education and practice | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Leyla Erk McCurdy, Senior Director | |||
| Allen Dearry | |||
| Institute of Medicine Reports and Beyond: The Need for Improved Environmental Risk Communication Lillian Mood, RN, MPH, FAAN | |||
| Action Plan to Improve Environmental Knowledge for Health Care Providers: National Forum Report Leyla Erk McCurdy, M Phil | |||
| National Guidelines for the Prevention, Recognition, and Treatment of Pesticide Overexposure: Creating a Template to Educate Clinicians about Environmental Health Issues Patricia Butterfield, PhD, RN | |||
| Integrating Environmental Health into Pediatric Health Care * Jerome A. Paulson, MD, Nsedu Obot, MPH, Leyla Erk McCurdy, M Phil | |||
| Organized by: | Environment | ||
| Endorsed by: | Medical Care | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Environmental Health, Nursing, Pharmacy | ||