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• Demystifying Data: Accessing, Using, and Interpreting Data in Public Health

  • Start
    February 22, 2010
  • End
    April 11, 2010
  • Location
    Webinar

  Demystifying Data: Accessing, Using, and Interpreting Data in Public Health

  Seven-week online, mentored course:

  Begins this month and newly updated for 2010!

  February 22 - April 11, 2010

  For more information or to register:

  go to www.mitrainingcenter.org

  or

  call 734-615-9439

  Continuing Education Credits in Nursing (21.0); CHES (17.0); and Social Work (21.0) are being offered.

   

  Course Registration Fee:  $135.

  Limited scholarship support is available to those working in Michigan-based organizations.  

   

  The primary goal of this course is to highlight an evidence-based approach to decision making. The relationship between data and program or policy initiatives is discussed, with a focus on the effective and systematic use of data.  Participants will be able to use data to develop a brief statement of the problem, describe the issue quantitatively, and develop data-based program or policy options.  The course is designed for those who need to use data in their daily work but may not have considerable training in the use of data.

  By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  · Develop a basic public health problem statement

  · Identify common types and sources of data for a public health problem

  · Write a SMART objective

  · Calculate and interpret the measures of frequency, association, and impact

  · Identify sources of error in data

  · Incorporate data into projects, programs and policies

  Target Audience: Practitioners in local and state health departments, in community-based organizations and health care delivery organizations.  No prerequisites are required for this course.

  Instructor: Betsy Wasilevich, Ph.D., MPH, Asthma Epidemiologist with the Michigan Department of Community Health, Division of Genomics, Perinatal Health, and Chronic Disease Epidemiology.

   

  Course Description: This is an online, mentored course that provides narrated presentations, readings, and hands-on exercises over seven weeks. Course registration fee includes course binder containing readings and assignments, a CD-ROM with course media, access to the online course management system, toll-free conference calls with instructor and fellow participants, as well as learning and technical support.  We estimate that it will take 21 total hours, or approximately 2 to 4 hours a week to view the class materials online, class preparation, reading and homework assignments.

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  The Office of Public Health Practice, University of Michigan School of Public Health is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Wisconsin Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

  
  Planning committee: Angela Beck, MPH, CHES; Larry M. Gant, PhD, LMSW, MSW, MA; Jeanette Kunnath, MEd, BA; Julie McCallum, RN, BSN, MPH; Elizabeth A. Wasilevich, PhD, MPH.

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  This event is sponsored by the Michigan Public Health Training Center, located at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, in the Office of Public Health Practice. Funding was made possible by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Bureau of Health Professions.

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• 20th IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion, Geneva, Switzerland: Health, Equity and Sustainable Development

  • Start
    July 11, 2010
  • End
    July 15, 2010
  • Location
    Geneva, Switzerland

  The 20th IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion, to be held in Geneva from July 11th through 15th 2010, will be focusing on health, equity and sustainable development.  This event will bring together researchers, practitioners and decision-makers from a variety
  of disciplines.
  
  The IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion, held every three years, is one of the most important international events in the field of public health and health promotion. In 2010, more than 2,000 participants from the five continents are expected to attend this
  major global event in Geneva. Under the heading of “Joining forces for Health, Equity and Sustainable Development”, the aim of the meeting is to build bridges in practice and research between two closely connected fields – health promotion and sustainable development.
  
  The importance of interconnecting the two fields for the future of the planet will increase as a result of the global economic crisis and the impacts of climate change.
  “Social inequality is on the rise, and solidarity will be challenged by the fight for resources and the increase in natural hazards. This will have direct impacts on the health of the population everywhere in the world,” David McQueen (President of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE)). “This explains the growing importance of international platforms for the exchange of ideas and expertise, such as the World
  Conference on Health Promotion.” “Geneva 2010” is guaranteed to provide ample food for thought and discussion. Speakers at the plenary and sub-plenary sessions will include high-profile figures from academia, as
  well as from governmental organisations and NGOs. One keynote speaker is the renowned human rights expert Professor Paul Hunt of the University of Essex (UK), who
  served as the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health. Also speaking at the conference will be Laura Liswood, Secretary General of the Council of Women World Leaders, and Marides Fernando, the Mayor of Marikina City (Philippines) who has overseen a paradigm shift in local governance – from service provision to economic management.
  
  Participants at “Geneva 2010” will have an opportunity to participate in dozens of parallel sessions and workshops. “The aim of the conference is to highlight the broader picture, beyond the traditional understanding of health promotion,” Thomas Mattig (Director of Health Promotion Switzerland, which is organising the event). “To reach the goals of health promotion, it is vital nowadays to form institutional alliances and cooperate with partners in fields such as poverty reduction, development or even architecture.”
  
  IUHPE (www.iuhpe.org) The International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) is over half a century
  old and draws its strength from being a unique worldwide, independent and professional association of individuals and organisations committed to improving the health and
  wellbeing of the people through education, community action and the development of healthy public policy.

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• 17th Annual Joint Conference on Health, October 11-12, 2010

  • Start
    October 11, 2010
  • End
    October 12, 2010
  • Location
    Yakima, Washington

  Save the date!  WSPHA's 17th Joint Conference on Health will take place on October 11-12, 2010. 
  

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