Institution: Institute for Public Health Practice, Iowa Department of Public Health

Description: This presentation discusses the basics of public health, including successes of public health, the history of public health, the core functions of public health, and the Ten Essential Services of Public Health.

Prerequisites: None.

Target Audience: Public health professionals

Resource Format: Powerpoint presentation

Time Requirement: 1 hour

Download Core Functions and Essential Service [2] (Powerpoint format)

Institution: Institute for Public Health Practice, Iowa Department of Public Health

Description: This presentation describes the role of local public health in Iowa, as well as relationships between local public health departments, Iowa Department of Public Health, and other local agencies.  In addition, this presentation will familiarize the student with the role of local public health in bioterrorism incidents and the requirements for applying for CDC bioterrorism grants.

Prerequisites: None.

Target Audience: Public health professionals

Resource Format: Powerpoint presentation

Time Requirement: 1 hour

Download Elected Official Region Bio-Emergency General In-Service for Region 3 2004.ppt [3] (Powerpoint Format)

Institution: Institute for Public Health Practice

Description: This presentation outlines the Ten Essential Services of Public Health and describes their use in public health practice.

Prerequisites: None.

Target Audience: Public health professionals

Resource Format: Powerpoint presentation

Time Requirement: 1 hour

Download Introduction essential services_Atchison [4] (Powerpoint Format)

Institution: Institute for Public Health Practice, Iowa Department of Public Health

Description: This presentation outlines the basics of public health in Iowa, including the mission and goals of public health in Iowa, achievements at the local and state level of public health in the state, and the reach of public health within the state of Iowa.

Prerequisites: None.

Target Audience: Public health professionals

Resource Format: Powerpoint presentation

Time Requirement: 30 minutes

Download Talking Points presentation [5] (Powerpoint Format)

Institution: Institute for Public Health Practice, Iowa Department of Public Health

Description: This presentation discusses the definition of public health, describes the history of public health in Iowa and the United States, explains what public health does, and briefly discusses how public health works for the population.

Prerequisites: None.

Target Audience: Public health professionals

Resource Format: Powerpoint presentation

Time Requirement: 45 minutes

Download What is Public Health [6] (Powerpoint Format)

Institution: Association of Schools & Programs of Public Health (ASPPH)

Description: Students and applicants may receive one copy of each borchure at no cost upon request.

Brochures includes:

• Pocket Folder containing "What is public health", "Reach", "You Can Make a Difference, Pursue a Career in Public Health", as well as general information such as graduate education in public health, traineeships, frequently asked questions, Delta Omega, current tuition of schools of public health, tec.
• What is Public Health?: Summary of public health and the eleven areas of study.
• Reach for Opportunity, for Fulfillment, for a Career in Public Health: Outlines potential careers and job opportunites in public health.

Target Audience: Public health professionals

Resource Format:  Printed brochures

More Information:

Rquest for information should be sent to:

ASPPH
1900 M Street NW, Suite 710
Washington, DC 20036

http://www.aspph.org/ [7]

Institution: Association of Schools & Programs of Public Health

Description: What is Public Health gives an overview of the field of public health and explains the impact of public health in our daily lives.  This website is a great resource for prospective students, academic advisors and the general public wanting to know more about the field of public health.

Target Audience: Public health professionals

Resource Format: website

http://www.aspph.org/discover/ [8]

Institution: Association of Schools & Programs of Public Health (ASPPH)

Description: This is Public Health is an interactive website populated by participants of the "This is Public health" awareness campagin.  check out this website for images of public health in action around the country and around the globe, as well as to view videos about public health created by students at schools of public health.  Instructions on how to join the "This is Public Health" campaign can be found on this website as well.

Target Audience: Public health professionals

Resource Format: website

https://thisispublichealth.org/ [9]

Institution: Association of Schools & Programs of Public Health (ASPPH)

Description: Pathways to Public Health is a must-see resource for anyone interested in pursuing a career in public health.  Content includes opportunities for experiences in public health, sample curricula, information.

Target Audience: Public health professionals

Resource Format: website

Institution: American Public Health Association

Description: This website describes a story of an average person and how public health touches the life of that person many different ways, from immunizations to healthy messages in the media to safeguards in the workplace.

Target Audience: Public health professionals

Resource Format: website

http://www.apha.org/professional-development [10]

Institution: Iowa Counties Public Health Association

Description: This document outlines the basics of working with local public health agencies in Iowa.  It includes helpful suggestions for new elected officials and has links to important references located throughout the World Wide Web.

Prerequisites: None.

Target Audience: Public health professionals and others in government

Resource Format: PDF Document

Time Requirement: 1 hour

Download LPHOutlineISACNewOfficerSchool121208rev021909 [11] (PDF Format)

Institution: University of Iowa Institute of Public Health Practice

Course Description: "Excellence in Public Health Practice: Lessons from the Field" is an innovate orientation to the Ten Essential Services.  Each essential public health service is illustrated using first-person stories told by practitioners from Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota.  The goal of the 12-part series is to integrate essential service activities with effective public health workforce development.  The series is available on CD-ROM, videotape, DVD, and on the Prepare Iowa Learning Management System.

Prerequisites: None.

Target Audience: Public health practitioners

Resource Format: CD-ROM, videotape, DVD, online

Time Requirement: 12 hours

More Information: For additional information or to order the series on DVD, CD-ROM, or VHS format, please contact Samara Wright at samara-wright@uiowa.edu [12] or (319) 384-4114.  The entire course is also available on the Prepare Iowa Learning Management System [13]

Institution: Upper Midwest Public Health Training Center, University of Iowa Hygienic Laboratory

Course Description: Public Health: Science in Action is designed to teach students about a wide variety of professional opportunities in the field of public health.

Prerequisites: None.

Target Audience: Students, individuals interested in public health

Resource Format: Streaming video

Time Requirement: 15 minutes

More Information: Watch Public Health: Science in Action [14]

Institution: Upper Midwest Public Health Training Center, Iowa Counties Public Health Association

Course Description: The New Public Health Administrators Series is the result of collaboration between the Upper Midwest Public Health Training Center and the Iowa Counties Public Health Association to develop a non-academic, practice-based education series targeted toward new public health administrators, directors, and nursing administrators in Iowa.  The purpose of the series is to cover topics that are especially relevant to new public health administrators, providing the opportunity for participants to enhance the knowledge, skills and abilities they need to successfully administer today’s public health workforce.  

The series is composed of fourteen courses:

•  Overall Aspects of Managing an Agency
•  Knowledge of Public Health
•  Strategic Planning
•  Community Planning
•  Human Resources
•  Financial Management
•  Grant Writing
•  Marketing
•  Contracts
•  Risk Communication
•  Basic Epidemiology
•  Public Health Law
•  Finding and Evaluating Health Information on the Internet
•  Critical Thinking

Target Audience: The intended audience includes public health administrators, directors and nurse administrators who are relatively new in their positions – three years or less.  Local boards of health, city and county health departments, hospitals, home health agencies and visiting nurse associations typically employ these public health professionals.

Resource Format: Online

Time Requirement: 14 hours

More Information: The courses are available through the Prepare Iowa Learning Management System [15]

Institution: Upper Midwest Public Health Training Center, Iowa Department of Public Health

Course Description: The Local Boards of Health Toolkit is designed to assist board of health and board of supervisor members with their roles and responsibilities in promoting the mission of public health. It focuses on the resources that LBOH members may need during their tenure.

Prerequisites: None.

Target Audience: Local board of health members, local board of supervisors members

Resource Format: Online

Time Requirement: Varies, not intended to be completed in one session

More Information: Visit Local Boards of Health Toolkit [16]

Institution: Upper Midwest Public Health Training Center

Course Description: Understanding the relationship of Boards of Health and Boards of Supervisors requires knowledge of Iowa’s public health statutes.  This program features a presentation by the Iowa State Association of Counties (ISAC) General Counsel to Public Health Nurses and Administrators at the 2006 ISAC Spring School of Instruction which examines this relationship with respect to public health law.

Prerequisites: None.

Target Audience: Public health practitioners, board of health members, board of supervisors members

Resource Format: Streaming video

Time Requirement: 1 hour

More Information: To watch the streaming video, register on the Prepare Iowa Learning Management System [15].

Institution: Upper Midwest Public Health Training Center

Course Description: In many communities in Iowa, private, non-profit or public hospitals are responsible for providing public health services.  In this presentation, Todd Linden, president and CEO of Grinnell Regional Medical Center; and Karen Fread, director of public health at Grinnell Regional Public Health, will describe the community hospital and its public health role in their county.

Prerequisites: None.

Target Audience: Public health practitioners, community hospital administrators

Resource Format: Streaming video

Time Requirement: 1 hour

More Information: To watch the streaming video, register on the Prepare Iowa Learning Management System [15].

Institution: Upper Midwest Public Health Training Center

Course Description: For almost two years, the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) has been developing a new definition of a functional local public health agency.  The final definition was released at the end of 2005.  This “Best Practices” program features a discussion of the operational definition.  Also, a panel responds to the remarks by NACCHO officials, and comments on how the new definition affects modes of operation in their respective communities.

Prerequisites: None.

Target Audience: Public health practitioners

Resource Format: Streaming video

Time Requirement: 1 hour

More Information: To watch the streaming video, register on the Prepare Iowa Learning Management System [15].

Institution: Upper Midwest Public Health Training Center

Course Description: An enumeration survey of the Iowa public health workforce was conducted February through April, 2005, by the Institute for Public Health Practice, University of Iowa College of Public Health, and the Iowa Association of Local Public Health Agencies.  The survey was sent to 101 city and county principal public health agencies in the state of Iowa; 100% of the agencies surveyed responded.  In this program, the speakers will provide the results of the survey and discuss its implications for Iowa.

Prerequisites: None.

Target Audience: Public health practitioners

Resource Format: Streaming video, CD, DVD, VHS

Time Requirement: 1 hour

More Information: To watch the streaming video, register on the Prepare Iowa Learning Management System [15].

Institution: Upper Midwest Public Health Training Center

Course Description: Since the events of 9/11, it has become increasingly evident that the United States must plan for the quarantine of potentially exposed individuals or animals, and the isolation of infected persons or animals, in case of an emergency response or a bioterrorism event.  The Iowa Department of Public Health has adopted rules for the isolation and quarantine of Iowa citizens or animals when necessary.  These rules allow Iowa counties to adopt rules and regulations of their own.  Iowa counties and their respective boards of health should evaulate their current existing local provisions and authority, and adopt these rules accordingly.  Quarantine and isolation procedures should describe the conditions in which they might be implemented, including enforcement provisions and a due process to protect those who are isolated or quarantined.

Prerequisites: None.

Target Audience: Public health practitioners

Resource Format: Streaming video, CD, DVD, VHS

Time Requirement: 1 hour

More Information: To watch the streaming video, register on the Prepare Iowa Learning Management System [15].

Institution: Upper Midwest Public Health Training Center, Iowa Department of Public Health

Course Description: The goal of Foundational Public Health Nursing Training is to address key knowledge, skills, and abilities public health nursing coordinators/supervisors must apply to demonstrate the core public health nursing competencies and to deliver the essential public health services at the local level.

The course has six modules:

•  Knowledge of Public Health
•  Strategic Planning
•  Program Evaluation
•  Basic Epidemiology
•  PH Practice Standards in Iowa
•  Public Health Law Course Objectives

After completing this course, you will be able to:

•  Discuss the focus and challenges facing contemporary public health.
•  Describe the rationale for strategic planning in public health.
•  List and describe the main steps of a program evaluation process.
•  Discuss important terms and concepts for basic epidemiology practice.
•  Describe the role of Iowa Local Public Health Standards in providing a consistent approach to promoting and protecting the health of Iowans.
•  Identify the primary mandates on local Boards of Health and Boards of Supervisors; describe the responsibilities of these Boards in the delivery

Prerequisites: None.

Target Audience: Public health nurses/administrators

Resource Format: Online course

Time Requirement: 8 hours

More Information: This course is available through the Prepare Iowa Learning Management System [15].

Institution: South Central Public Health Training Center

Course Description: This conference is designed to take a topic that is fairly familiar to most public health professionals, the Ten Essential Public Health Services, and apply them more directly to day-to-day work.

Prerequisites: None.

Target Audience: Allied health professionals, educators, nurses, nutritionists, occupational and industrial professionals, physicians, physician assistants, public health professionals, students, and administrative staff

Resource Format: Archived Webcast

Time Requirement: 2 hours

More Information: More information is available at http://www.adph.org/ALPHTN/Default.asp?DeptId=143&TemplateId=3533&TemplateNbr=3 [17] or by contacting Brandi Bordelon at trdirect@tulane.edu [18] or (504) 988-1342.

Institution: Northwest Public Health Training Center

Course Description: This course provides an introduction to public health data interpretation.  It provides a basic competency in reading and presenting data, as well as an understanding of the terms used to describe data and the subtleties associated with data.  Examples and intractive exercises offer opportunities to increase skills in presenting data to coworkers, community-based organizations, hospitals, public agencies, boards of health, and the general public.  

Topics include:

•  Uses of rates and counts
•  Prevalence
•  Incidence
•  Mortality
•  Crude versus category-specific rates
•  Confidence intervals and p-values
•  Graphs and tables
•  Sources of public health data

Prerequisites: None.

Target Audience: Public health nurses, sanitarians, frontline public health workers, health educators

Resource Format: Online course

Time Requirement: 1.5 hours

More Information: More information is available at http://www.nwcphp.org/data [19] or by contacting the NWCPHP Training and Outreach Specialist at nwcphp@u.washington.edu [20] or (206) 616-5957.

Institution: Midwest Center for Lifelong Learning in Public Health; Division of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Minnesota School of Public Health; Agency for Toxic Substances and Diseases Registry

Course Description: The Environmental Health Online Series provides a framework for understanding the major environmental factors that impact human health.  The sources of problems, relevant legislation, and interventions utilized for prevention and control are discussed.

Upon completion of the module, you will be able to:

•   Identify the role environmental health plays in accomplishing the goals of public health.
•   Identify environmental factors common to every setting that have potential impact on
•     human health.
•   Outline a public health framework that includes priorities and strategies for intervention
•     used in the practice of environmental health.
•   Describe local, regional, and national legislation addressing environmental health issues.
•   Discuss the multiple factors that contribute to an understanding of risk communication.
•   Describe risk communication strategies for environmental health issues.
•   Describe the primary ethical tenets involved in environmental and occupational health
•     history.
•   Identify organ systems potentially affected by toxic exposure.
•   Identify common toxicants in the home, work, and community environments.
•   Explain concepts related to environmental health toxicology, dose, duration, pathway of
•     exposure, and limitations of epidemiological studies in environmental health.
•   Develop an environmental health resource list of professionals and agency contacts for
•     follow-up questions and referrals.

Prerequisites: None.

Target Audience: Administrators, allied health professionals, dentists, environmental health professionls, health educators, nurses, public health professionals, sanitarians, students, administrative staff

Resource Format: Online course

Time Requirement: 2.5 hours

More Information: More information is available at http://cpheo.sph.umn.edu/cpheo/mclph/courses/ehn.html [21] or by contacting Amy Scheller at cpheo@umn.edu [22] or (612) 626-4515.

Institution: Texas Public Health Training Center

Course Description: At the end of this session, the learner should be able to articulate the concepts of public health and how public health differs from individual health.  In addition, the learner will be exposed to the ecological approach to public health and the categories of determinants of health.

Prerequisites: None.

Target Audience: Educators, health officials, public health professionals, students

Resource Format: Online course

Time Requirement: 1 hour

More Information: More information is available at http://www.txphtrainingcenter.org/Calendar/Calendar.cfm [23] or by contacting Virginia Kennedy at Virginia.C.Kennedy@uth.tmc.edu [24] or (713) 500-9388.

Institution: New York and New Jersey Public Health Training Center

Course Description: This two-part course uses the metaphor of a new worker orientation (computer-based) to present information.  By reading e-mails, completing assigned tasks, and participating in simulated desktop conferences, the learner discovers that public health is very much a part of everyday life, and learns how many different agencies work to carry out its mission.  Part one of the course introduces the mission and six obligations of public health.  Part two of the course explains the Ten Essential Services of public health.

Prerequisites: None.

Target Audience: Information professionals, public health professionals, administrative and support staff

Resource Format: Online course

Time Requirement: 2 hours

More Information: More information is available at
http://www.nynj-phtc.org/orientation/home/oph-login.cfm [25] or by contacting Kate Collier at klc2129@columbia.edu [26] or (212) 305-6984.

Institution: South Central Public Health Training Center

Course Description: The purpose of this course is to focus on the basic principles and core elements of public health and trace its evolution.  The course reviews the public health system and its roles and responsibilities.  It is also important to understand the challenge to measure health and address the nationally recognized core public health competencies.  Lastly, participants are given a glimpse at public health issues that face us today and ones that are on the horizon.

Objectives:

• Describe early movements that influenced public health and the key individuals
• Describe the different eras of public health from 1800-2000
• Describe successes/achievements in public health history
• Identify the ethics and values that make public health a unique profession
• Describe the legal basis for public health in America
• Identify different definitions of health - including physical, mental, and social well-being
• Describe factors that influence health
• List the ten leading causes of death and the actual causes of death
• Describe health measurement activities such as Healthy People 2010
• Describe the difference between population-based public health and personal health services
• Identify strategies to incorporate additional essential services into the participant's program area
• Describe the National Public Health Performance Standards Program and it's impact on public health practice
• Describe how the local, state, and federal levels of government impact health
• Describe the importance of collaborations and coalitions, and the basic steps in coalitgion development
• Describe the community planning model in public health - Mobilizing Action through Planning and Partnerships
• Identify the eight competency domains for public health workers
• Understand the relationship between core competencies for public health workers and the essential services
• Identify strategies to strengthen individual competencies
• Identify key questions professionals ask in creating a new future
• Identify major challenges facing the public health system in your communities
• Identify new or changed roles for your programs and for yourselves based on this course

Target Audience: Public health professionals

Resource Format: Online course

Time Requirement: 4 hours

More Information: More information is available at http://lms.southcentralpartnership.org/scphp?productID=prdct000000000001018 [27]

or by contacting Brandi Horn at trdirect@tulane.edu [28] or (504) 988-1342.

Institution: South Central Public Health Training Center

Course Description: Theh purpose of this course is to focus on the basic principles of public health and trace its evolution.  The course reviews the public health systema nd its roles and responsibilities.  It is also important to understand the challenge to measure health and address the nationally recognized core public health competencies.  Lastly, particpants are given a glimpse at public health issues that face us today and ones that are on the horizon.

Objectives:

• Recognize the difficulty in arriving at a really good definition of health
• Explain the various definitions of health proposed by others
• Reach a level of comfort where you can begin to develop your own definition of health based on your own work priorities
• Describe the population-based measurements of health
• Recognize the availability of tools for health promotion and behavior change
• Discuss future goals for the nation
• Identify the domains of health determinants in each domain
• Explain public health
• Argue the pros and cons of public health as a profession and why the controversy even exists
• Describe components and images of public health
• Describe the actions of historical heroes in public health
• Discusss the major achievements in public health during the 20th century
• Be able to identify the three core functions of public health practice
• Translate the core functions into public health practice
• Apply these functions to your own work
• Discuss the unique features (a.k.a. core values) of public health
• Critically evaluate the interaction of these unique features
• Identify the essential services
• Discuss the practical implications of the essential services
• Compare the essential services and your own work
• Differentiate and compare local, state and federal public health roles and responsibilities
• Identify funding sources and how they are appropriated via the three levels
• Explain how assessment fits in as a public health core function
• Describe ways to measure health status and disease rates in population
• Name the importance for monnitoring trends in diseases
• Identify ways to find subpopulations at elevated risk
• Determine modifiable antecedents to disease
• List methods of assessment in assessing the health of a population
• Name forms of surveillance data collection
• Explain how to analyze, interpret and disseminate surveillance data
• Explain how vital statistics are used in assessment and the purpose of using special studies
• List questions and measures that are useful when evaluating public health programs
• Name both federal and state sources of data for overall health assessment
• Compare and contrast the ethical bases of public health and medical care
• Explain similarities and differences between law and ethics
• Define the philosophical and religious bases of ethics
• Explain the ethical foundations of public health and their impact on target constituencies

Prerequisites: Orientation to the Essentials of Public Health - Intermediate Level

Target Audience: Public health professionals

Resource Format: Online course

Time Requirement: 4 hours

More Information: More information is available at http://lms.southcentralpartnership.org/scphp/?productID=prdct000000000001033 [29] or by contacting Brandi Horn at trdirect@tulane.edu [30] or (504) 988-1342.

Institution: Pennsylvania & Ohio Public Health Training Center; University of Pittburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Center for Minority Health

Course Description:

This program presents material covering five major areas:

•   Practical Evaluation
•   Community Health Assessment
•   Communication
•   Cultural Competence
•   Biostatistics

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

•   Describe the meaning and importance of practical evaluation
•   Describe various considerations when analyzing data
•   Describe how to conduct an interview
•   List practical data analysis techniques
•   Describe the role and process of community health assessment
•   Describe cultural competence
•   Describe ineffective and effective ways to listen
•   Describe how to effectively talk so people listen

Prerequisites: None.

Target Audience: Administrators, community leaders, educators, health educators, health officials, public health professionals, students, substance abuse professionals, elected officials, administrative staff

Resource Format: Combination of online courses, CD-ROM, live instruction, and independent study

Time Requirement: 30 hours

More Information: More information is available at http://www.pophtc.pitt.edu/training.htm#Practical%20Professional%20Skills%20Part%20I [31]or by contacting Molly Eggleston at egglestonm@edc.pitt.edu [32] or (412) 383-2400.

Course Description: As a public health professional, you undoubtedly recognize the diverse responsibilities of the field in the 21st century.  Public health today is held accountable for everything from measles inoculation of school children to long term care of the elderly; from inspecting restaurants to monitoring toxic waste transportation; from overseeing conditions in public housing to preventing the spread of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs); from conducting urban drug treatment programs to inspecting milk supplies on our dairy farms.  It is difficult to imagine our society without public health.  However, the public health infrastructure (workforce, information and technology, and relationships between agencies) as it now exists was not always in place.  It did not exist until the second half of the 19th century and even now continues to expand in role and scope.  This course identifies the origin of public health in America, traces its evolution, and looks at the current condition of public health.

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

•  List various hazards to public health from the 19th and 20th centuries.
•  Outline the beginnings of organized public health in America.
•  Identify five obstacles to public health.
•  Explain the historical elements contributing to the growth and success of public health.
•  Describe the legal framework of public health in the U.S.
•  Identify sources of government authority to assure public health at the state, federal, and
•     local levels.
•  List at least two laws or regulations that impact your public health work.
•  Describe the mission of public health.
•  Identify the core functions of public health.
•  List the 10 essential services of public health.

Target Audience: Administrators, allied health professionals, community leaders, communications specialists, dietitians, educators, law enforcement, mental health professionals, nurses, nutritionists, physicians, physician assistants, policy makers, public health professionals, social workers, students, substance abuse professionals, veterinarians, elected officials

Resource Format: Online course

Time Requirement: 2 hours

More Information: More information is available by contacting Molly Eggleston at egglestonm@edc.pitt.edu [33] or (412) 383-2400; or by contacting Monique Peterson at petersonmd@edc.pitt.edu [34].

Institution: Pennsylvania & Ohio Public Health Training Center

Course Description: This course will prepare individuals in public health agencies to deliver educational programs to the public health workforce in their region by developing presentation skills and providing content training for POPHTC-approved curriculum.

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

•  Articulate adult learning principles
•  Utilize effective presentation skills
•  Prepare and deliver a course
•  List the characteristics of adult learners
•  Structure an appropriate adult learning environment
•  Identify their own preferred learning style
•  Prepare course materials, facilties, and equipment
•  Incorporate effective physical behaviors
•  Use a variety of visual aids
•  Utilize effective questioning techniques
•  Handle problem situations
•  Prepare and present a thirty minute presentation
•  Create an action plan for improvement of self-identified areas

Prerequisites: None.

Target Audience: Administrators, environmental health professionals, educators, health educators, nurses, public health professionals, sanitarians, students, administrative staff

Resource Format: Offline independent study

Time Requirement: 2 hours

More Information: More information is available by contacting Heather Vilvens at hvilvens@cph.osu.edu [35] or (614) 292-2303.

Institution: Midwest Center for Lifelong Learning in Public Health

Course Description: This course presents basic public health concepts, including:

•  The principles of public health
•  Essential services of public health
•  Importance of collaboration across governmental and private sector entities
•  Achievements and future challenges of public health
•  Cultural competency

Application of these elements is stressed through two case studies:

•  Public health emergency response to an anhydrous ammonia spill
•  An American Indian community that is faced with increasing obesity and diabetes rates among school-aged children

At the conclusion of this module, the learner will be able to:

•  Identify the core functions of public health and their impact on primary, secondary and tertiary prevention of disease and injury.
•  Describe the principles, core functions and essential services of public health used by public health professionals in the performance of their roles.
•  Summarize the contribution of public health in improving the health of communities and populations.
•  Identify the role of public health in emergency preparedness and response.
•  Describe how public health principles and concepts are applied in culturally diverse settings to maximize effectiveness in specific populations.

Target Audience: Administrators, allied health professionals, community leaders, communication specialists, dentists, dietitians, environmental health professionals, educators, health educators, health officials, laboratory professionals, law enforcement, media, mental health professionals, military personnel, nurses, nutritionists, pharmacists, physicians, physician assistants, planners, policy makers, public health professionals, researchers, sanitarians, social workers, students, substance abuse professionals, veterinarians, elected officials, administrative staff

Resource Format: Online course

Time Requirement: 2.5 hours

More Information: More information is available at http://cpheo.sph.umn.edu/cpheo/mclph/course/wiph.html [36] or by contacting Amy Scheller at sche0526@umn.edu [37] or (612) 624-3962.

Institution: Midwest Center for Lifelong Learning in Public Health

Course Description: To help people understand just how important public health is in terms of emergency response, the University of Minnesota recently created an interactive online game called “Outbreak at Watersedge.”

By playing this game, the student will be able to:

•  Identify specific jobs within the career field of public health; and
•  Locate specific resources for further exploration of the prospective area of study.

Prerequisites: None.

Target Audience: Environmental health professionals, educators, health educators, health officials, nurses, public health professionals, students, support staff

Resource Format: Online course, CD-ROM

Time Requirement: 1 hour

More Information: More information is available at http://cpheo.sph.umn.edu/cpheo/mclph/course/wiph.html [36] or by contacting Amy Scheller at sche0526@umn.edu [38] or (612) 624-3962.

Institution: Mid-America PHTC

Course Description: After completing PH 411, learners will be proficient in describing what public health is, including its unique and important features, to general audiences.  

Key aspects of this competency expectation include:

•  articulating several different definitions of public health
•  describing the origins and content of public heath responses over history
•  tracing the development of the public health system in the U.S.
•  broadly characterizing the contributions and value of public health
•  describing the role and responsibilities of public health professionals in disaster preparedness and response
•  identifying 3 or more distinguishing features of public health
•  describing public health as a system with inputs, processes, outputs, and results, including the role of core functions and essential public health services in the public health system
•  identifying 5 or more Internet web sites that provide useful information on the U.S. public health system This course involves several learning activities; review the Introduction page for detailed instructions.

Prerequisites: None.

Target Audience: Public health professionals and students

Resource Format: Online course

Time Requirement: 1 hour

More Information: More information is available at http://publichealthlearning.com/ [39] or by contacting Guddi Kapadia at phlearning@cade.uic.edu [40] or (312) 355-1144.

Institution: Mid-America PHTC

Course Description: After completing PH 415, learners will be proficient in identifying and explaining how various organizations, positions, and roles contribute to carrying out public health's core functions and essential services.

Key aspects of this competency expectation include:

•  explaining the "governmental presence in health" concept
•  identifying and describing public health's core functions and essential services
•  discussing how public health core functions are operationalized in practice
•  discussing how community health improvement processes are implemented in community settings
•  explaining approaches to assess the extent to which public health's core functions and essential services are being carried out in a community
•  understanding how continuous quality improvement principles can be applied to pubic health practice
•  describing approaches to improving state-local public health systems

Prerequisites: None.

Target Audience: Public health professionals and students

Resource Format: Online course

Time Requirement: 1 hour

More Information: More information is available at http://publichealthlearning.com/ [39] or by contacting Guddi Kapadia at phlearning@cade.uic.edu [41] or (312) 355-1144.

Institution: Mid-America PHTC

Course Description: After completing PH 417, learners will be proficient in applying principles derived from the basic public health sciences to planning, implementing, and evaluating public health interventions.

Key aspects of this competency expectation include:

•   listing general categories of public health programs and services
•   describing the difference between community prevention and clinical preventive services
•   describing the major steps in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of a public health program
•   describing how and when planning and evaluation occur during the life of a program
•   defining and developing outcome, impact, and process objectives
•   describing the relationships among activities, process measures, impact measures, and outcome measures in the evaluation of a program
•   explaining the difference between doing things right and doing the right things within the context of a public health intervention

Prerequisites: None.

Target Audience: Public health professionals and students

Resource Format: Online course

Time Requirement: 1 hour

More Information: More information is available at http://publichealthlearning.com/ [39] or by contacting Guddi Kapadia at phlearning@cade.uic.edu [42] or (312) 355-1144.

Institution: Pennsylvania & Ohio Public Health Training Center; University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences Library System

Course Description: Covers finding and using public health information resources on the Internet. Topics include picking a starting point, creating a search strategy, modifying it based on search results, and identifying resources not indexed by search engines.

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

•  Explain the differences between single search engines, meta search engines and directories;
•  Use basic and advanced search features of major search engines; and,
•  Identify and use the major public health portals on the Internet.

Prerequisites: None.

Target Audience: Administrators, community leaders, communications specialists, data and information professionals, educators, health educators, health officials, media, planners, policy makers, public health professionals, researchers, social workers, students, trainers, elected officials, administrative staff

Resource Format: Online course

Time Requirement: 1 hour

More Information: More information is available at http://www.pophtc.pitt.edu/training.htm [43] or by contacting Molly Eggleston at egglestonm@edc.pitt.edu [44] or (412) 383-2400.

http://coolice.legis.iowa.gov/Cool-ICE/default.asp?category=billinfo&service=IowaCode [81]

• Chapter 21: Open Meetings Law [82] (PDF Format)
• Chapter 22: Open Records [83] (PDF Format)
• Chapter 137: Local Boards of Health [84] (PDF Format)
• Chapter 139A: Communicable and Reportable Diseases and Poisonings [85] (PDF Format)
• Chapter 331: County Home Rule Implementation [86]
  • 331.216: Membership on Appointive Boards, Committees and Commissions [87] (PDF Format)
  • 331.305: Publication of Notices [88] (PDF Format)
  • 331.321: Appointment/Removal by Boards [89] (PDF Format)
  • 331.427: General Fund [90] (PDF Format)
  • 331.431: Additional Funds [91] (PDF Format)
  • 331.434: County Budget [92] (PDF Format)
  • 331.435: Budget Amendments [93] (PDF Format)
  • 331.437: Expenditures Exceeding Appropriations [94] (PDF Format)
• Chapter 351: Dogs and Other Animals [95] (PDF Format)
• Chapter 455B.172: Jurisdiction of Department and Local Boards [96] (PDF Format)

https://www.legis.iowa.gov/law/administrativeRules/agencies [97]

• Section 567: Environmental Protection Commission [98]
  • Chapter 49: Nonpublic Water Supply Wells [99] (PDF Format)
  • Chapter 69: Onsite Wastewater Treatment and Disposal Systems [100] (PDF Format)
• Section 641: Public Health Department [101]
  • Chapter 80: Local Public Health Services [102]
  • Chapter 80.9: Public Health Nursing [103] (PDF Format)
  • Chapter 80.10: Home Care Aide Services [104] (PDF Format)

Ten Rules of Thumb for Local Boards of Health [105] (DOC Format)

Public Health Director's Orientation Guide [106] (DOC Format)

Local Board of Health Guidebook [107] (PDF Format)

Mission and Organization [108]

• Iowa Department of Public Health [109]
• Iowa Counties Public Health Association [48]
• Iowa Environmental Health Association [50]
• Iowa Public Health Association [51]
• Iowa Public Health Information [110]
• Iowa State Association of Counties [52]
• University of Iowa college of Public Health [53]
• University of Iowa Institute for Public Health Practice [55]
• Midwestern Public Health Training Center [57]
• Upper Midwest Preparedness and Emergency Response Learning Center [58]
• University of Iowa Hardin Library for the Health Sciences [60]

• Information received on Public Health Staff Making Jail Visits [111] (DOC Format)
• Greene County Public Health & Sheriff's Office Agreement [112] (DOC Format)

Institution: Upper Midwest Public Health Training Center, Iowa Department of Public Health

Course Description: The Local Boards of Health Toolkit is designed to assist board of health and board of supervisor members with their roles and responsibilities in promoting the mission of public health.  It focuses on the resources that LBOH members may need during their tenure.

Prerequisites: None.

Target Audience: Local board of health members, local board of supervisors members

Resource Format: CD-ROM

Time Requirement: Varies, not intended to be completed in one session

More Information: To access this toolkit, visit http://prepareiowa.training-source.org/training/toolkits/Local%20Boards%20of%20Health%20Toolkit/detail [16]

Download On-Call Rates by County Agency [113] (Worksheet Format)

• Iowa Department of Education [114]
• Iowa Department of Human Services [115]
• Iowa Department of Natural Resources [116]
• Iowa Department of Elder Affairs [117]