165750 Health professionals' education and the environment

Tuesday, November 6, 2007: 2:45 PM

Leyla McCurdy, MPhil , Senior Director, Health & Environment, The National Environmental Education & Training Foundation, Washington, DC
     
At the National Council for Science and the Environment's Integrating Environment and Human Health Conference (http://ncseonline.org/2007conference/), a session was devoted to explore the most effective ways to improve health professionals' environmental health knowledge. The session participants outlined a range of strategies and activities for integrating environmental health into health professionals' education and clinical practice. This presentation will summarize these recommendations and provide examples of successful implementation of similar strategies, such as the National Environmental Education Foundation's Health Care Provider Initiative (www.neefusa.org).

Learning Objectives:
1) Articulate the recommendations made by the conference participants for increasing environmental knowledge of health professionals. 2) Describe successful programs. 3) Identify ways to replicate these strategies.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No
Any institutionally-contracted trials related to this submission?

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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