Resources

Food Marketing in the Context of Childhood Obesity Presentation and Webinar Discussion

Professor Dale Kunkel presents compelling research on how marketing is used to reach children as a target audience. The issue, however, is not that children are being targeted by marketing campaigns, but that these marketing campaigns feature unhealthy food choices. Hosted by Dr. Doug Taren.

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The Role of Health Apps in Dietetics Practice

This training discusses the use of Mobile Health Apps to enhance nutrition intervention. The training will lead you through best practices to use when introducing health apps to clients and presents a screening tool that can be used to gauge the usefulness of various Health Apps for your clients. During part two of this training you will participate in a simulated role play experience introducing a Health App to your client

Public Health Essentials in Action now available as an Online Training!

Public Health Essentials in Action Online

The Arizona Public Health Training Center is proud to offer the online version of our face-to-face course Public Health Essentials In Action.

Sexual Violence Training for Community Health Workers/Promotoras

The course provides an introduction to some basic knowledge and skills useful in assisting and responding to victims of sexual violence.

Domestic Abuse Screening and Management for Primary Care

Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) or domestic violence is extremely common affecting women, and sometimes men, of all ages, ethnicities and sexual preferences. IPV can have physical, mental and emotional short and long term consequences. Effective screening and assessment is key in identifying the abuse and supporting the victim to access resources to interrupt the cycle of violence. This course provides a toolkit with detailed information for public health providers to become more knowledgeable in screening, documentation and management practices and patient resources for domestic abuse. The toolkit was developed using California Health and Safety codes and reporting laws and can be revised to reflect the codes and laws of a given state.

Stock Albuterol Inhaler Training for School Personnel

Asthma is life-threatening when students do not have the tools to manage symptoms effectively. The stock albuterol inhaler program provides an albuterol inhaler to be kept in the school health office (e.g., stock albuterol) in the event that a student is experiencing respiratory distress and does not have access to their own rescue inhaler. This e-learning course provides mandatory training for school personnel designated to administer the stock albuterol inhaler.

Children's Food Insecurity in the Summer: the Role of Clinicians and Health Providers in Connecting Children to the Summer Meals Program

This webinar will highlight how clinicians and other healthcare providers who care for vulnerable children can play a role in addressing hunger in the summer months.

Helping Hands for the Homeless: Information about Food Assistance Programs Dedicated to the Homeless

Toward Universal Design Series

Toward Universal Design is a 3-part series starting with a presentation given by Dr. Amanda Kraus, followed by an archived version of a live question and answer session, and finishing with a panel discussion with people discussing their experience living with a disability. Universal design refers to an over-arching set of ideals to create buildings, environments, products and activities that are Universally accessible to all members of society. While this is a hefty goal, this module will help individuals to understand its importance from a disability standpoint.

Introduction to Science and Health Communication

This online short course will cover topics including: how science/health communication happens, who does it, the challenges of communicating science/health, science literacy and best practices for effectively communicating science/health information to the public.

This training is comprised of four, self-paced sections. Estimated completion time is 40 minutes.

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Communication Skills for Successful Health Care Team Relationships

This webinar reviews communication and group dynamic issues that can impact the working relationship within health care teams. Participants will learn tools and resources to help improve communication and group interactions to help support successful health care teams.

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Improving Your Practice and Advocacy of Cultural Competence through the Skills-based ASCN Model

This archived webinar was designed as an inter-professional training for all healthcare providers. Nurses, pharmacists, and doctors, both in practice and in training, as well as PA’s, MA's, front desk staff, receptionists, and other staff can benefit from learning about improving cultural competency skills and practices though identifying and removing potential roadblocks to care experienced by patients from different population groups. This webinar focuses on the Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) standards of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Minority Health (OMH), health disparities, and a skills-based approach to culturally competent care: the ASCN model (Ask, Share, Compare and Negotiate).

Getting Results: Motivational Interviewing

This training will get you familiar with a concept called Motivational Interviewing (MI), a strategy to help guide your patients and help them become their own agent of change. Whether you are just learning about MI or need a refresher, this training will review MI techniques and give you the opportunity to complete a simulated counseling session.

Sharing Information and Resources with Your Community Using Social Media

Acanthosis Nigricans: Screening and Referral for Insulin Resistance

Acanthosis nigricans is a skin condition known to be associated with insulin resistance. This training explains more about the condition, and discusses recommended identification and referral techniques in children.

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Postpartum Weight Retention: Importance of Quality Interventions

Postpartum weight retention can contribute to lifelong development of obesity and increasing cycles of obesity and diabetes in mothers and children. This course will review background information on BMI classifications, the prevalence of obesity in women, health consequences of postpartum weight retention, and components of effective community based postpartum weight loss programs.

Evaluating Fad Diet Practices

A Fad Diet Screening Tool is presented to help you learn more about identifying and responding to people who may be following unhealthy "fad diets."

Promising Practices in Nutrition and Diabetes Prevention and Management – Special Diabetes Program for Indians

Community Directed Diabetes Program are a central part of the fight against type 2 diabetes in many native communities. These programs, funded by the IHS Special Diabetes Project for Indians (SDPI), provide diabetes prevention and management services that address the needs of their communities, and oftentimes use innovative ways to encourage healthier eating, physical activity, and lifestyle habits in their communities. In this presentation we will review some of the nutrition related activities offered by Tucson Area SDPI diabetes programs, most specifically, those from the Tohono O’odham Nation.

The Children’s Healthy Living (CHL) Multilevel Multicomponent Program in the US Affiliated Pacific Region

This webinar will describe the CHL program components, explain CHL strategies for effectiveness and sustainability, and identify key outcomes of CHL. CHL is a partnership among US affiliated Pacific Jurisdictions that leverage the land grant infrastructure and history of collaboration to build a multilevel multicomponent intervention program; a multidisciplinary cross jurisdiction training program on child health; and an ongoing data monitoring system for child health.

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American Indian Youth Summer Medical Wellness Camp

Obesity has become a major health problem among American Indians. Lifestyle risk behaviors include nutrient-poor food and drink choices, larger food portions, and physical inactivity. This program will describe an American Indian Youth Summer Medical Wellness Camp that addresses the growing number of Arizona's Indian youth who are at risk for or who have been diagnosed with type II diabetes.

Promoting Healthy Food Choices and Physical Activity in a Rural American Indian Community

Few programs have recognized and integrated distinctive characteristics of many AIAN communities, specifically the value placed on shared identity, group cohesion and collective resilience. This presentation will share strategies implemented in one American Indian community that strive to make healthy food choices and physical activity a community responsibility, not individual challenge.

Strengthening Native Food Sovereignty to Preserve Native American Culture and Improve Community Health

Environmental factors and federal policies have had a large impact on the health and cultural identity of our Indigenous populations. With increasing rates of diabetes, obesity, and cancer in Native American communities, strengthening Native food systems offers an opportunity to improve Native economies, health, and culture. This course is meant to give an overview of how health departments and public health workers can help strengthen Native food sovereignty, for the purpose of improving Native health and revitalizing Native cultures.

Increasing Local Food in Hospitals and Clinics for Health and Nutrition

Health care institutions have the potential to play an influential role in creating a healthier food system. Hospitals have large food service budgets, reach a large population, and are trusted authorities on health issues, created for the purpose of preserving wellness. This course is designed to provide knowledge and tools needed to increase the use of healthy, local food in healthcare facilities.