4380.3 Environmental Health and Climate Change

Tuesday, October 28, 2008: 4:30 PM
Oral
Healthy People 2010 underscores the need for every public health program to have health professionals who are competent to assess and respond to community identified health care needs. Support for continuing education as a means to develop competencies in the identified essential public health services such as environmental health will be discussed. This session is devoted to Applied Epidemiology for Public Health Nurses. Global warming is the focus of this interactive presentation.
Session Objectives: Describe teaching content methodology for a continuing education online course format in Epidemiology. Discuss teaching content methodology for a face-to-face continuing education course in Epidemiology.
Moderator:
Laura Anderko, RN PhD

4:30 PM
Abstract #1: SESSION: Public health without borders: Environmental health nursing and climate change
Laura Anderko, RN PhD, Elizabeth Blackburn, RN BSN, Stephanie Chalupka, EdD, PHNCNS-BC and Barbara Sattler, RN, DrPH, FAAN
     
5:00 PM
Abstract # 2: SESSION: Climate change and healthy public policy: Opportunities for advocacy
Elizabeth Blackburn, RN BSN, Stephanie Chalupka, EdD, PHNCNS-BC and Laura Anderko, RN PhD
           
5:30 PM
Abstract #3 SESSION: Global climate change: Partnerships for public health action
Stephanie Chalupka, EdD, PHNCNS-BC, Laura Anderko, RN PhD, Elizabeth Blackburn, RN BSN and John Balbus, MD, MPH

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Public Health Nursing
Endorsed by: Environment

CE Credits: CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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