Public Health Overview

4 contact hours/credits will be available for successful completion of this session. |
Session Objectives:
- Detail the history of public health services delivered in the United States
- Identify how the New to Public Health Residency Program can be used to develop and maintain a competent workforce, including a resource for recruitment, retention, and succession planning; training; and performance review and accountability
- Describe legal principles, scope, and the role of government within public health practice
- Demonstrate the use of plain language including the ability to support, use, and maintain communication technologies needed to interact with community residents
- Discuss the importance of reflection in professional practice
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Learning Activities:
- Public Health 101
- Public Health Practice Models
- Discussion: Public Health Practice Models
- Public Health Law, Policy, and Ethics
- Scavenger Hunt
- Health Literacy
- Case Study: Plain Language
- Reflection
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Accountability and Performance Management

7.5 contact hours/credits will be available for successful completion of this session. |
Session Objectives:
- Recognize how public health performs according to accepted business standards and is held accountable in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws and policies
- Define how public health departments assure compliance with national and Public Health Accreditation Board standards
- Detail how organizational objectives are achieved and monitored through a performance management system
- Apply evidence-based and/or promising practices when implementing new or revised processes, programs, and/or interventions at the organizational level
- Identify nationally recognized framework quality improvement tools and methods and explain how they contribute to and maintain an organization-wide culture of quality improvement
- Describe how to establish a budgeting, auditing, billing, financial system, chart of expense and revenue accounts in compliance with federal, state, and local standards and processes
- Articulate how to secure grants or other funding (governmental and not) and how public health departments demonstrate compliance with an audit required for the sources of funding utilized
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Learning Activities:
- Overview of Accountability and Performance Management
- Scavenger Hunt
- Quality Improvement
- Case Study: Quality Improvement
- Introduction to Evidence-Based Public Health
- Models, Methods, and Tools
- Programmatic Budgets and Funding
- Program Planning and Evaluation
- Public Health Accreditation
- Case Study: Continuous Quality Improvement
- Translating Evidence to Practice
- Professional Development
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Health Equity

5.75 contact hours/credits will be available for successful completion of this session. |
Session Objectives:
- Articulate how socioeconomic status, racism, and power impact health and wellbeing
- Identify how programs, policies, and practices within the five domains of the Healthy People 2030’s Social Determinants of Health (economic stability, education, health care, neighborhood/built environment, social and community context) positively or negatively impact the health of individuals, families, and communities
- Strategically coordinate health equity programming through a high level, strategic vision and/or subject matter expertise which can lead and act as a resource to support such work across the department
- Detail the levels of the Social Ecological Model of Health and how public health can intervene at various levels to improve health outcomes
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Learning Activities:
- Health Equity 101
- Conditions of Health
- Social Determinants of Health
- Case Study: Social Ecological Model
- Neighborhoods and Health
- Power and Policies
- Discussion: Social Determinants
- Scavenger Hunt
- Health in All Policies
- Building Capacity and Sustaining Effort
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Communicable Disease

7.25 contact hours/credits will be available for successful completion of this session. |
Session Objectives:
- Explain how public health provides timely, statewide, and locally relevant and accurate information to the health care system and community on communicable diseases and their control
- Identify statewide and local communicable disease control community partners and their capacities
- Describe how public health receives laboratory reports and other relevant data; conducts disease investigations including contacting tracing and notification; and recognizes, identifies, and responds to communicable disease outbreaks for notifiable conditions in accordance with local, national, and state mandates and guidelines
- Determine how public health assures the availability of partner notification services for newly diagnosed case of syphilis, gonorrhea, and HIV according to CDC guidelines
- Define how public health assures the appropriate treatment of individuals who have active tuberculosis, including the provision of directly observed therapy in accordance with local and state laws and CDC guidelines
- Explain how public health supports the recognition of outbreaks and other events of public health significance by assuring capacity for the identification and characterization of the causative agents of disease and their origin, including those that are rare and unusual, at the appropriate level.
- Recognize how public health coordinates and integrates categorically funded communicable disease programs and services.
- Recognize how to access 24/7 laboratory resources capable of providing rapid detection
- Prioritize and respond to data requests, including vital records, and translate data into information and reports that are valid, statistically accurate, and accessible to the intended audiences
- Indicate how a public health organization maintains and procures the hardware and software needed to access electronic health information and to support the department’s operations and analysis of health data
- Validate that proper systems are in place to keep health and human resources data confidential in a public health organization.
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Learning Activities:
- Overview of Communicable Disease
- Scavenger Hunt
- Surveillance and Disease Investigation
- Electronic Health Data
- Contact Tracing
- Epidemiology 101
- Motivational Interviewing
- Outbreaks
- Case Study: Legionnaire’s Disease Outbreak
- Discussion: Communicable Disease Surveillance, Investigation, Treatment, Counseling, and Prevention
- Tuberculosis 101
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases/Infections
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Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention

7.25 contact hours/credits will be available for successful completion of this session. |
Session Objectives:
- Explain how public health provides timely, statewide, and locally relevant and accurate information to the health care system and community on chronic disease and injury prevention and control
- Identify statewide and local chronic disease and injury prevention community partners and their capacities, develop, and implement a prioritized prevention plan, and seek funding for high priority initiatives
- Describe how public health can reduce statewide and community rates of tobacco use through a program that conforms to standards set by state or local laws and CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health, including activities to reduce youth initiation, increase cessation, and reduce secondhand smoke exposure, as well as exposure to harmful substances
- Identify how public health works actively with statewide and community partners to increase statewide and community rates of healthy eating and active living through a prioritized approach focusing on best and emerging practices aligned with national, state, and local guidelines for healthy eating and active living.
- Recognize how public health coordinates and integrates categorically funded chronic disease and injury prevention programs and services
- Evaluate ways to engage members of the community in a community health improvement process that draws from community health assessment data and establishes a plan for addressing priorities
- The community health improvement plan can serve as the basis for partnership development and coordination of effort and resources
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Learning Activities:
- Chronic Disease Overview
- Scavenger Hunt
- Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity Prevention
- Tobacco Prevention
- Alcohol
- Injury Prevention
- Health Behaviors
- Policy, Systems, and Environmental Change
- What Works for Health
- Healthy People 2030
- CHA & CHIP Overview
- Case Study: Using Local Data for a Community Health Assessment
- Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention Showcase
- Discussion: CHA & CHIP
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Environmental Health

8 contact hours/credits will be available for successful completion of this session. |
Learning Objectives:
- Provide timely, statewide, and locally relevant and accurate information to the state, health care system, and community on environmental public health issues and health impacts from common environmental or toxic exposures
- Identify statewide and local community environmental public health partners and their capacities, develop, and implement a prioritized plan, and seek action funding for high priority initiatives.
- Identify public health goals accomplished through environmental public health activities including laboratory testing, inspections, and oversight to protect food, recreation sites, and drinking water; manage liquid and solid waste streams safely; and identify other public health hazards related to environmental factors in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and regulations
- List ways to protect workers and the public from chemical and radiation hazards in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and regulations
- Articulate how to participate in broad land use planning and sustainable development to encourage decisions that promote positive public health outcomes (e.g., housing, and urban development, recreational facilities, and transportation systems) and resilient communities
- Recognize how public health coordinates and integrate categorically funded environmental public health programs and services.
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Learning Activities:
- Overview of Environmental Health
- Scavenger Hunt
- Discussion: Interdisciplinary Roles in Environmental Public Health
- The Built Environment
- Food Safety
- Case Study: Food Safety
- Drinking Water
- Liquid and Solid Waste Management
- Lead
- Chemical and Radiation Hazards
- Radon
- Case Study: Radon
- Recreational Activities
- Zoonotic and Vector-Borne Diseases
- Planetary Health
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