Public Health & Prevention
Live Activities by Specialty
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Project Access was created to increase access to comprehensive and coordinated health care services for children and youth with epilepsy residing in medically underserved and rural areas. Nine states are working...
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Activity Details
- Credit Types:
CME, CPE, CNE
- Credit Amount: 1.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Apr 1, 2013
- Cost: Free
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Only 12% of adults in the United States have proficient health literacy skills. The impact of marginal health literacy is well documented with outcomes that include higher rates of emergency...
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Activity Details
- Credit Types:
CME, CPE, CEU
- Credit Amount: 1.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Apr 1, 2013
- Cost: Free
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The problems that contribute to limited health literacy are found in both urban and rural environments. Although many of the issues are shared by both urban and rural settings, there is a distinction in...
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Activity Details
- Credit Types:
CME, CEU
- Credit Amount: 1.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Apr 1, 2013
- Cost: Free
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More than 89 million people in the United States have difficulty understanding and acting upon health information. An organized effort to address the myriad issues surrounding limited health literacy can...
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Activity Details
- Credit Types:
CME, CEU
- Credit Amount: 1.25
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Apr 1, 2013
- Cost: Free
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STDs are common, costly, and preventable. Worldwide, an estimated 333 million cases of curable STDs occur annually. In 1995, STDs were the most common reportable diseases in the United States. They accounted for...
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Activity Details
- Credit Types:
CME, CNE
- Credit Amount: 1.00
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Type: Audio Webcast
- Expires: Mar 10, 2013
- Cost: Free
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Depression is one of the most common psychological outcomes of HIV disease, particularly among rural African-American women. Although overt forms of HIV-related stigma have reduced considerably over time,...
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Activity Details
- Credit Types:
CME, CPE, CNE
- Credit Amount: 1.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Feb 17, 2013
- Cost: Free
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Kentucky leads the nation in diseases related to tobacco. Secondhand smoke exposure is a major problem in our state with the high prevalence of adult smokers. This presentation will address the issues...
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Activity Details
- Credit Types:
CME
- Credit Amount: 0.75
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Feb 1, 2013
- Cost: Free
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South Carolina currently ranks 8th in the nation in cervical cancer mortality. The rates of incidence and mortality form cervical cancer and HIV infection are disproportionately higher in Orangeburg and...
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Activity Details
- Credit Types:
CME, CPE, CNE
- Credit Amount: 1.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Feb 1, 2013
- Cost: Free
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The session will look at key 2009 policy changes and also provide an overview of regulatory and legislative issues impacting rural health care. Hear the latest news on the policy front and learn how to best serve...
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Feb 1, 2013
- Cost: Free
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Hear how USDA Rural Development increases economic opportunity and helps improve the quality of life for rural Americans.
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Feb 1, 2013
- Cost: Free
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Women represent a growing number of individuals living with HIV/AIDS in the United States. Recent studies indicate that HIV is increasingly affecting women, adolescents, and minorities in rural and Southern...
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Activity Details
- Credit Types:
CME, CPE, CNE
- Credit Amount: 1.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Feb 1, 2013
- Cost: Free
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Hear about critical areas of rural economic development, social determinants of health and non-traditional entities such as transportation, commerce, labor and housing, and critical components of healthy rural...
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Activity Details
- Credit Types:
CME, CPE, CNE
- Credit Amount: 1.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Feb 1, 2013
- Cost: Free
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About 3 million Veterans enrolled in the VA Health Care System live in rural areas. These rural Veterans sometimes cannot find a way to travel to see a doctor or other health care workers. Rural Veterans might...
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Activity Details
- Credit Types:
CME, CPE, CNE
- Credit Amount: 1.25
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Feb 1, 2013
- Cost: Free
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Pharmacists in most every US state are now authorized to administer immunizations/vaccinations. Immunization science and vaccine schedules are a constantly evolving area. It is critical that...
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Activity Details
- Credit Types:
CME, CPE
- Credit Amount: 1.00
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Type: Audio Webcast
- Expires: Dec 8, 2012
- Cost: Free
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Despite improvements in SCI medical management, rehospitalization rates remain high. It has been estimated that 32% of medical costs in the first 2 years after injury was directly attributed to secondary medical...
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Activity Details
- Credit Types:
CME
- Credit Amount: 1.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Nov 1, 2012
- Cost: Free
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There is a demonstrated lack of lead screening in the childhood population of Kentucky when evaluated according to the published standards of the National Advisory Committee for the Prevention of Childhood Lead...
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Activity Details
- Credit Types:
CME
- Credit Amount: 1.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Nov 1, 2012
- Cost: Free
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