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5189.0: Wednesday, November 08, 2006: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| Environmental health presents many important challenges to health education and to message dissemination. The speakers in this session will discuss how health educators are educated on the topic of environmental health and the training of individuals in the environmental health workforce. Speakers will also discuss the relationship between environmental health risks and health and strategies for increasing community awareness of these relationships. | |||
| Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) in this session will be able to: 1. Articulate the adverse relationship between environmental health risks and health in adult and child populations. 2. Discuss strategies for increasing community awareness of and engagement with environmental health issues, including use of technologies such as GIS. 3. Recognize the need for a larger and more diverse environmental health workforce. | |||
| Mitchel Rosen, MS | |||
| Educating child care providers about environmental health risks Helen Williams, Kristin D. Marstiller | |||
| Measuring people's engagement in environmental health: Development and validation of an instrument Jane K. Dixon, PhD, John P. Dixon, PhD, Elizabeth Ercolano, RN, MSN, DNSc, Karrie C. Hendrickson, RN, MSN, Robi Quackenbush, CNM, MSN | |||
Association of Environmental Health Academic Programs: A better future for the environmental health workforce: Increasing and diversifying the pipeline through strong academic programs ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} Judith Mazique, JD, MPH, Patrick Bohan, CAPT Ret, MS, Alejandra Tres, MPA | |||
| An interdisciplinary, case-based learning module for assessment, clean-up and redevelopment of a contaminated site Megan E. Romano, MPH candidate, Wayne W. LaMorte, MD, PhD, MPH, Richard Clapp, MPH, DSc, Wendy J. Heiger-Bernays, PhD, Michael D. McClean, MS, ScD, Robert Schadt, EdD | |||
| Partnering for environmental health education in EJ communities: A comparison of approaches Yolanda Anderson, PhD, Rakesh Malhotra, PhD, Saundra DeLauder, PhD, Marcia Bradshaw, MA, John J. Bang, MD, PhD, L. Jacqueline Arroyo, PhD | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Public Health Education and Health Promotion | ||
| Endorsed by: | Maternal and Child Health | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | ||
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