Recommendations for core competencies for local environmental health practitioners

In February 2000, environmental health experts from 13 national environmental/health organizations came together in Washington to begin the work of defining core competencies for local level environmental health practitioners. APHA's Public Health Innovations Project, with funding from the National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), convened the meeting. The expert panel members and several federal agency representatives met for two days to identify the core competencies local environmental health practitioners needed to be effective in their work.Executive Summary -- -- Part I: Setting the Stage -- -- A. Introduction -- B. Background -- C. Terms and target audience -- D. Definitions of competencies -- E. Basic assumptions -- -- Part II: Recommended Competencies -- A. Assessment -- B. Management -- C. Communication -- -- Part III: Traits and Characteristics of an Effective Environmental Health Practitioner -- -- Part IV: Next Steps -- -- Part V: Appendices A-G -- Appendix A: Expert panel members -- Appendix B: Summary of expert panel discussion -- Appendix C: Typical responsibilities of environmental health and protection programs -- Appendix D: Technical competencies covered in NEHA's Registered Environmental Health Specialist/Registered Sanitarian (REHS/RS) exam -- Appendix E: Content areas of NEHA's REHS/RS exam -- Appendix F: Setting the context: environmental health practitioner competencies -- Appendix G: Resources"May 2001.""Revised June 27, 2001."Mode of access: Internet as an Acrobat .pdf file (313 KB, 48 p.).Includes bibliographical references (p. 44-47)

Review of the KHDI health insurance pilot project in Okgu County, South Korea

노트 : Evaluation period: Sep 1979-Apr 198

Preliminary evaluation of the Korea Health Development Institute community health practitioner training program

노트 : Evaluates project to train community health practitioners and aides (CHP and CHA) and village health aides (VHA) to provide primary health care to Korea's rural poor. Evaluation covers a period ending 5/80 and is based on document review, site visits, and interviews with trainees and with project personnel. The project paper defined the CHP's role as mainly curative, however, a mid-term assessment divided CHP duties evenly among preventive, curative, and clinic management. Trainees were chosen from the areas they were to serve on the basis of attitude and experience. The one-year CHP training program has three parts: classroom (for which texts were developed on internal medicine, surgery, preventive and emergency care, clinic management, and pharmaceutics), hospital internship, and field practice. Due to a lack of instructors and available hospital space, half the trainees entered field practice without adequate preparation, and field supervision was limited. Nonetheless, all trainees were judged to be doing satisfactory work. The CHP evaluation (30% in-class exam, 70% clinical assessment) was judged well-designed and objective. Guidelines for a revised CHP training program are provided. CHA's are nurse aides who undergo a 9-month training course. Turnover was high among CHA's who felt their duties required more varied training. VHA's are volunteers who perform simple health care and refer cases to the community health center. Although the VHA program was not examined in detail, a large number of VHA's have been trained and the program appears basically sound. It is recommended that: the final external evaluation include experts in mid-level health manpower training and that the final training evaluation estimate the quality of preventive and curative services; a management and supply system and a standardized training and evaluation program for nationwide deployment of CHP's be developed; and that USAID/P take immediate action to provide additional technical assistance to the Korean Health Development Institute

Fourteenth(14th) seminar on tropical medicine

노트 : Seminar on Tropical Medicine, 14th (9-11 Jun 1983 : Seoul, KR

Proposed audit and accounting guide : health care organizations ;Health care organizations; Exposure draft (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants), 1995, April 14

This Guide applies to organizations whose principal operations consist of providing or agreeing to provide health care services and that derive all or almost all of their revenues from the sale of goods or services; it also applies to organizations whose primary activities are the planning, organization, and oversight of such organizations, such as parent or holding companies of health care providers. This Guide applies to health care organizations that are either (a) investor-owned businesses or (b) not-for-profit organizations that have no ownership interest and are essentially self-sustaining from fees charged for goods and services, as defined in Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Statement of Financial Accounting Concepts No. 4, Objectives of Financial Reporting by Nonbusiness Organizations, paragraph 8, or (c) governmental. This Guide applies to the following types of health care organizations: 1. Clinics, medical group practices, individual practice associations, individual practitioners, emergency care facilities, laboratories, surgery centers, and other ambulatory care organizations; 2. Continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs); 3. Health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and similar prepaid health care plans; 4. Home health agencies; 5. Hospitals; 6. Nursing homes that provide skilled, intermediate, and less intensive levels of health care; 7. Drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers and other rehabilitation facilities; This Guide also applies to integrated delivery systems that include one or more of the above types of organizations. This Guide does not apply to voluntary health and welfare organizations, as defined in FASB Statement No. 117, Financial Statements of Not-for-Profit Organizations. These organizations should follow the AICPA Audit and Accounting Guide Not-for-Profit Organizations. Related fund-raising foundations that meet the definition of a not-for-profit organization given in FASB Statement No. 117 also should follow the AICPA Audit and Accounting Guide Not-for-Profit Organizations. When separate financial statements are issued for a state or local governmental health care organization that uses enterprise fund accounting and reporting, the accounting, reporting, and disclosure requirements set forth in this Guide and by pronouncements of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) apply. (See chapter 1 for a discussion of the application of GAAP.)https://egrove.olemiss.edu/aicpa_sop/1607/thumbnail.jp

AGENDA: Fracking, Water Quality and Public Health: Examining Current Laws and Regulations

Improved technology developments in directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing, more commonly known as fracking, have resulted in an oil and gas production boom nationwide. Fracking involves pumping pressurized water, sand, and chemicals down wells to crack bedrock, freeing petroleum and natural gas. Wastewater discharges, hydraulic fracturing fluid releases, and other accidental spills pose potential water quality risks, sparking concern for public health. This webinar will examine the laws and regulations governing water quality issues related to fracking, recent state court decisions affecting regulations, and implications for public health

AGENDA: Fracking, Water Quality and Public Health: Examining Current Laws and Regulations

Improved technology developments in directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing, more commonly known as fracking, have resulted in an oil and gas production boom nationwide. Fracking involves pumping pressurized water, sand, and chemicals down wells to crack bedrock, freeing petroleum and natural gas. Wastewater discharges, hydraulic fracturing fluid releases, and other accidental spills pose potential water quality risks, sparking concern for public health. This webinar will examine the laws and regulations governing water quality issues related to fracking, recent state court decisions affecting regulations, and implications for public health

Health care organizations with conforming changes as of May 1, 2004; Audit and accounting guide:

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Health care organizations with conforming changes as of May 1, 2006; Audit and accounting guide:

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