166831 Environmental public health performance standards

Monday, November 5, 2007: 10:30 AM

Sharunda Buchanan, MS, PhD , Division of Emergency and Environmental Health Services, CDC's National Center for Environmental Health, Atlanta, GA
           
The National Environmental Public Health Performance Standards (NEPHPS) were developed to assist with building capacity, building consistency, and building accountability into state, tribal, and local environmental public health programs. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and its stakeholders have agreed on a plan for introducing the NEPHPS nationally. This plan has both short-term and long-term objectives aimed at improving the capacity of state, tribal, and local environmental health programs to perform the essential services of environmental health. These objectives and timelines will be reviewed and discussed. The process by which the objectives were developed will also be discussed.

Learning Objectives:
Discuss the short-term implementation plans for the National Environmental Health Performance Standards Discuss the outcome that will be measured in the long-term regarding the National Environmental Health Performance Standards Understand the role of the CDC in implementing the National Environmental Health Performance Standards and effecting change in the practice of environmental public health at the state, tribal, and local levels.

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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