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Foundations of Public Health Practice: The Public Health Toolkit
by Dr Richard J Pinder- 4.5
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Approx. 14 hours to complete
The Foundations of Public Health Practice: The Public Health Toolkit builds on public health thinking (introduced in the previous course) and introduces a variety of core public health approaches (the toolkit) to conceptualising problems, conducting analysis and bringing forward recommendations. In this course we cover health needs assessment, evaluation and public health intelligence-approaches....
Cancer Prevention Web-Based Activity
by Jann T. Balmer- 4.7
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Approx. 4 hours to complete
This web-based video course focuses on the importance of prevention and risk reduction in decreasing cancer occurrences. All learners will need to watch the video modules, read associated articles, and achieve a passing score of 80% on quizzes in order to complete the course. DESCRIPTION Next Generation Choices Foundation (NGCF or Less Cancer), lesscancer....
SARS-CoV-2 and acute respiratory viral infections
by Oksana Rybalchenko , Arina Fedorova/Федорова Арина Александровна , Aleksandra Livanova , Alexander Markov/Марков Александр Георгиевич- 4.8
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Approx. 12 hours to complete
We live in a very amazing and disturbing time. No one could have imagined that a single phenomenon in the field of biology (mutation of the virus and its transition to a new organism) would cause such large-scale changes in the life of everyone, the economy and politics of almost all countries of the world....
Opioid Epidemic: From Evidence to Impact
by Shannon Frattaroli, PhD, MPH- 4.7
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Approx. 7 hours to complete
While prescription opioids serve an invaluable role for the treatment of cancer pain and pain at the end of life, their overuse for acute and chronic non-cancer pain as well as the increasing availability of heroin and illicit fentanyl, have contributed to the highest rates of overdose and opioid addiction in U....
Outbreaks and Epidemics
by Justin Lessler, PhD, MS- 4.8
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Approx. 5 hours to complete
Professional epidemiologists are often called on to investigate outbreaks and epidemics. This course serves as an introduction to the essentials of investigation, identifying pathogens, figuring out what's going on, reporting, and responding. You'll learn how to ask precise epidemiologic questions and apply epidemiologic tools to uncover the answers. Identifying and Investigating Outbreaks: The Basics...
Surveillance Systems: Analysis, Dissemination, and Special Systems
by Stefan Baral, MD, MPH, MBA, FRCPC- 4.7
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Approx. 6 hours to complete
In this course, we'll build on the previous lessons in this specialization to focus on some very specific skills related to public health surveillance. We'll learn how to get the most out of surveillance data analysis, focusing specifically on interpreting time trend data to detect temporal aberrations as well as person, place, and time in the context of surveillance data....
Strategies for Senior Housing Communities during COVID-19
by Juliana Bilowich , Alice Bonner , Molly Nace , Morgan Katz- 4.7
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Approx. 10 hours to complete
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, poses a high risk for senior housing communities and the people who live and work there. The COVID-19 response has largely focused on nursing homes, leaving independent living communities serving older adults in the United States with fragmented guidance on how to respond to COVID-19 challenges....
Cannabis, Mental Health, and Brain Disorders
by Kent Hutchison- 4.7
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Approx. 15 hours to complete
This Cannabis, Mental Health, and Brain Disorders course is designed to have you think critically about the health effects of cannabis (i. e. , marijuana) in the context of several mental health and neurocognitive disorders. You'll be able to identify key features of several anxiety disorders (e. g. Anxiety Disorders and Cannabis...
Population Health: Syndemics
by Matty Crone , Ria Reis- 0.0
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Approx. 18 hours to complete
Do you wish to contribute to breaking cycles of ill-health in disadvantaged populations? And explore co-occurrence of diseases, such as substance abuse, infectious and chronic disease, and the relation with social factors (disparities)? Are you disappointed in the poor effectiveness of interventions for combined social and medical problems? Then this syndemics course might provide you with some answers....
Systems Science and Obesity
by Jessica Jones-Smith , Rahmat Beheshti , Daniel Taber , Kayla de la Haye , Thomas Glass- 4.6
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Approx. 11 hours to complete
Systems science has been instrumental in breaking new scientific ground in diverse fields such as meteorology, engineering and decision analysis. However, it is just beginning to impact public health. There will also be a lab in which students will use a simple demonstration model of food acquisition behavior using agent-based modeling on standard (free) software (netlogo)....
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