Free Online CE on Environmental Public Health Tracking from the CDC

Are you looking for continuing education credits? Do you have an interest in environmental hazards and health outcomes? If yes, the CDC has a free CEU online class available for nurses and nurse practitioners.

Visit the National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (EPHT) with the CDC to take the free online class "Tracking 101".

This course gives an overview of the major components of EPHT. EPHT is the ongoing collection, integration, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of data on environmental hazards, exposures to those hazards, and health effects that may be related to the exposures.

The goal of tracking is to provide information that can be used to plan, apply, and evaluate actions to prevent and control environmentally related diseases. CDC is currently leading the initiative to build a National EPHT Network, to integrate these three types of data into a standardized electronic network.

For any questions or problems related to Continuing Education, please contact CDC Training and Continuing Education Online at (800) 498-6260 or ce@cdc.gov.

*Notice: This offer is only in effect until December 31, 2014. Beginning in January 2015 these free credits will no longer be available.

Course Abstract

http://www.nehacert.org//TrackingEPHT2010/Tracking_Abstract.htm

Environmental Public Health Tracking 101

Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) is the ongoing collection, integration, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of data on environmental hazards, exposures to those hazards, and health effects that may be related to the exposures. The goal of tracking is to provide information that can be used to plan, apply, and evaluate actions to prevent and control environmentally related diseases. For decades, the United States has faced a fundamental gap in knowing how environmental contaminants affect people's health. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is working to close this gap by improving surveillance through the Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (Tracking Network). The Tracking Network is a dynamic Web-based tool that tracks and reports environmental hazards and the health problems that may be related to them.

This course, Environmental Public Health Tracking 101, gives an overview of the major components of Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT). The course is divided into 12 modules within 3 sections. Each module focuses on a different subject. You may choose to take as many of the modules as you like, in any order. After completion of all tracks within a section and then taking the online quizzes, you can download your course certificate for NEHA Approved CE Credits. In addition, continuing education for health educators and nurses are available from CDC free of charge.

Module 1 - Introduction
Module 2 - CDC's National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program
Module 3 - CDC's National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network
Module 4 - The Basics of Public Health Surveillance
Module 5 - Introduction to Epidemiology
Module 6 - Environmental Hazard Data
Module 7 - Introduction to Biomonitoring
Module 8 - Basics of Health Effects Data
Module 9 - Environmental Public Health Indicators
Module 10 - Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
Module 11 - Policy and Practice
Module 12 - Communication