Resource | Time (Hrs) | Registration Required | Provider |
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Shelter (Evacuation and Emergency) - web page | Self-paced | No | CDC |
Environmental Health and Shelters - online course | 1 to 3 | Yes | South Central Public Health Partnership (Tulane University-University of Alabama) |
Provider: CDC
Description: This web page addresses key topics for environmental health practitioners who perform many critical functions in shelters. Examples include conducting shelter assessments, testing drinking water supplies, conducting food safety inspections, and evaluating general safety and sanitation. Key topics include:
Environmental Health Training in Emergency Response [7] – training addresses information on shelters and many environmental health topics commonly faced in response to emergency events
Public Health Surveillance During a Disaster [8] – information to assess the human health impacts of a disaster and evaluate potential problems such as disease outbreaks
Target audience: Environmental health practitioners
Access at Shelters (Evacuation and Emergency) [9]
Download this information [10] (PDF format)
Provider: South Central Public Health Partnership (Tulane University and University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Course Description: The lectures in this course focus on teaching environmental health specialists how they can apply their knowledge of everyday environmental health problems to dealing with environmental health issues that arise in the creation of mass shelters that may follow a major disaster. The lectures provide the learner with an introductory overview of the course topic and offers general knowledge of the subject matter.
Course Objectives: By the end of this course, the student should be able to describe key environmental health issues and the roles of environmental health professionals in shelter operations.
Time Requirement: 1 to 3 hours
Target Audience: Environmental health professionals
Access at Environmental Health and Shelters [11]
Download this information [12] (PDF format)
Links
[1] http://emergency.cdc.gov/shelterassessment
[2] http://emergency.cdc.gov/planning/shelteringfacts.asp
[3] http://emergency.cdc.gov/disasters/petshelters.asp
[4] http://emergency.cdc.gov/disasters/commshelters.asp
[5] http://emergency.cdc.gov/preparedness/shelter
[6] http://emergency.cdc.gov/radiation/shelter.asp
[7] http://nehacert.org/moodle/course/category.php?id=42
[8] http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/hsb/disaster/surveillance.htm
[9] http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/ehs/ETP/shelter.htm
[10] http://prepareiowa.training-source.org/sites/default/files/u2/14%20Shelters%20%28Evacuation%20and%20Emergency%29%20.pdf
[11] http://lms.southcentralpartnership.org/course/viewguest.php?id=68
[12] http://prepareiowa.training-source.org/sites/default/files/u2/15%20Environmental%20Health%20and%20Shelter%20.pdf