Session: Infrastructure Development: Strategies for Incorporating Environmental Health into Health Care
4260.2: Tuesday, November 18, 2003: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM
Oral
Infrastructure Development: Strategies for Incorporating Environmental Health into Health Care
Primary health care providers are not well prepared to diagnose, treat and prevent health effects due to environmental exposures. At a national forum held in Washington DC many leaders in medicine, nursing, and environmental health identified strategies and specific action items for integrating environmental health into primary health care education and practice. This session will highlight these strategies and action items, and describe specific initiatives aiming to integrate environmental health throughout various stages of education and clinical practice for health care providers.
Learning Objectives: Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:1) articulate the strategies and actions needed to incorporate environmental health into health care 2) describe initiatives to integrate environmental health into health care education and practice
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Organizer(s):Leyla Erk McCurdy, Senior Director
Moderator(s):Allen Dearry
4:30 PMInstitute of Medicine Reports and Beyond: The Need for Improved Environmental Risk Communication
Lillian Mood, RN, MPH, FAAN
4:50 PMAction Plan to Improve Environmental Knowledge for Health Care Providers: National Forum Report
Leyla Erk McCurdy, M Phil
5:10 PMNational Guidelines for the Prevention, Recognition, and Treatment of Pesticide Overexposure: Creating a Template to Educate Clinicians about Environmental Health Issues
Patricia Butterfield, PhD, RN
5:30 PMIntegrating Environmental Health into Pediatric Health Care *
Jerome A. Paulson, MD, Nsedu Obot, MPH, Leyla Erk McCurdy, M Phil
Organized by:Environment
Endorsed by:Medical Care
CE Credits:CME, Environmental Health, Nursing, Pharmacy

The 131st Annual Meeting (November 15-19, 2003) of APHA