Environmental Health and Justice: a brief primer

This self-paced, on-demand class provides an introduction to environmental health and environmental justice. The class covers three environmental justice resources you can use to find data and statistics about environmental health disparities in your community.

This class will be delivered entirely online through the Moodle course management system. The class is broken up into 5 topics that are presented through a tutorial, with narrated demonstrations and knowledge checks. All the topics are open and available for you to work through at your own pace and schedule.

This presentation addresses health information resources and data, improving health literacy, and increasing health equity through information, and the NNLM initiative of Environmental Determinants of Health by demonstrating how to search MedlinePlus to find environmental health information for library patrons and members of the public.

Objectives

Upon completion of this class, students will be able to:

1. Define environmental health and environmental justice.

2. Use the Environmental Justice Dashboard from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention to find data on environmental health disparities in your community. 

3. Use EJScreen, the Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Justice Mapping tool to find data about environmental health disparities in your community.

4. Search MedlinePlus.gov to find environmental health information for library patrons and members of the public.

Class Materials and Resources
Environmental Health and Justice Resource Guide (NNLM)
Class Length

1 hour

Continuing Education

Sponsored by the Network of the National Library of Medicine, a designated provider of contact hours (CECH) in health education credentialing by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc., this program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) to receive Category I continuing education contact hours.

This class qualifies for Medical Library Association (MLA) Consumer Health Information Specialization (CHIS) Level 1.

This class qualifies for Medical Library Association (MLA) Consumer Health Information Specialization (CHIS) Level 2.

This class has been approved for 1 Medical Library Association (MLA) continuing education credit. 

This class meets the following CHIS Level 1 competencies:

C1. Know the Community
C3. Knowledge of Subject Matter and Resources

This class qualifies as additional continuing education credit towards CHIS level 2.

Up to 1 Credit in Public Health Recertification Credits may be earned at this event.

Class Owner(s)

Contact the NNLM Training Office for more information.

Class Instructor(s)

Nora Barnett, Health Professionals Outreach Specialist, Region 6

Classes

Event Title Event Start Date Summary Continuing Education Credits CE Categories Is Online Registration
Environmental Health and Justice: a brief primer Learn about three resources you can use to find data and statistics about environmental health disparities in your community. This on-demand training takes approximately one hour to complete and offers CHES, CPH, and MLA credit. 1.00 CHES, CHIS Level 1, CHIS Level 2 On
Event Title Event Start Date Summary Continuing Education Credits CE Categories Is Online Registration
Environmental Health and Justice: a brief primer Learn about three resources you can use to find data and statistics about environmental health disparities in your community. This on-demand training takes approximately one hour to complete and offers CHES, CPH, and MLA credit. 1.00 CHES, CHIS Level 1, CHIS Level 2 On