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Education and Training
Case Studies in Environmental Medicine - A series of self-instructional
publications designed to increase primary care provider's knowledge of hazardous
substances in the environment and to aid in the evaluation of potentially exposed
patients.
Intended Audience: Primary care providers, and other health professionals
(doctors, nurses, EMTs, health educators)
Technical Level: Medium-High
Environmental Health Nursing Initiative
- A site which highlights and supports nurses' contributions to promoting
environmental health for communities and individuals. The initiative is a collaborative
effort to increase and sustain environmental health knowledge and skills in
nurses and other health professionals. The vision of the initiative is to create
a sustainable role for environmental health in professional nursing. The goal
of the initiative is to make environmental health an integral component of nursing
practice, education, and research.
Intended Audience: Nurses, nurse practitioners, staff and faculty of schools
of nursing, other health care providers and interested public health professionals
Technical Level: Medium
Evaluation
Primer on
Health Risk Communication Programs and Outcomes, An -
This primer presents key principles and techniques to assist federal decision-makers
and health risk communicators to improve their overall effectiveness in evaluating
health risk messages and materials.
Intended Audience: Health Professionals who respond to public concerns
about exposure to hazardous substances
Technical Level: Medium
Identifying
Exposure Pathways -The online learning program provides information
on the basic concepts used by ATSDR staff and agents of ATSDR in conducting
public health assessments, specifically how to identify pathways of exposure.
This online learning program is intended to assist environmental public health
professionals understand the basic steps and coordination necessary to identify
exposure pathways. The program provides learn-by-doing steps on how ATSDR's
cooperative agreement partners (agents of ATSDR), ATSDR staff, and other environmental
and public health professionals can identify how persons come into contact with
hazardous and toxic substances. This program is an interactive simulation involving
internal and external communications, site document review, mock site review,
video clip review, community involvement activities, and completion of an exposure
pathway table.
Intended Audience: Public health professionals, health assessors
Technical Level: Medium
Primer
on Health Risk Communication Principles and Practices, A - A
primer explaining ATSDR's comprehensive efforts to prevent or mitigate adverse
human health outcomes related to hazardous substance exposure, how the process
works, and some general principles for improving effectiveness.
Intended Audience: Health Professionals who respond to public concerns about
exposure to hazardous substances
Technical Level: Medium
Public
Health Assessment Process and the Community: An Interactive Learning Program
- This program provides an overview of the public health assessment process
that ATSDR uses to evaluate whether people will be harmed by hazardous materials
from waste sites or from other places where hazardous substances have been spilled
or released into the environment. People who live or work in a community near
a hazardous waste site play an important role in the public health assessment
process. This interactive learning program explains the process and shows how
community members can become involved.
Intended Audience: Community members, health assessors
Technical Level: Low
This page reviewed May 13, 2004
R. Searfoss e-mail
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