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Creating Opportunities for Healthy Communities
This interactive course will provide basic knowledge about how our social networks, community structures and local and state policies affect our health and health behavior. Its goal is to discuss the importance of planning and implementing public health strategies to create environments that make the healthy choice the easy choice and support healthy living.
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to describe the systemic and environmental factors that influence health and health behaviors; describe the social-ecological model and steps involved in using it to select strategies for improving public health, and describe how local organizations and communities can implement important policy change strategies.
Audience
The target audience for this workshop includes: health advocates, epidemiologists, health educators, program planners, grant managers and other public health professionals; state agency staff (e.g., education, transportation, aging, agriculture, etc.); regional and city planners; local and county engineers; representatives from schools (e.g., health/physical education teachers, principal, nurse, food service, wellness committee members, school board members), community-based and faith-based organizations (e.g., recreation directors, child care centers, health ministry members, pastor, youth ministers), health care and business (e.g., hospital and clinic staff, employers and business owners, employee health and wellness providers, community outreach coordinators), and elected officials.
Course Format
This is an online self-study course that can be taken at any time. Participants control the pace at which they navigate through the three modules of the course.
Cost
The course is being offered at no cost.
Registration
For detailed information and to register for the course please view the complete course announcement. http://e2.ma/click/ukppf/2uuycb/ivdmdb (security warnings may appear before you can download this PDF)
To register for this workshop go to https://www.cphplearn.org, the Center for Public Health Practice Learning Content Management system (LCMS). Enter your username and password, OR if you are a first-time user, select Create Account and enter your profile information. TRAIN users may want to use the same username and password for both TRAIN and the LCMS.
Sponsors
This workshop is brought to you by the Prevention Research Center at The Ohio State University’s College of Public Health, the Ohio Department of Health and the Ohio Public Health Training Center located within the Center for Public Health Practice in the College of Public Health at The Ohio State University.
