Don’t Panic: Principles of Risk Communication
On Demand
Course Overview
Course Quality Rating
TBD
Course Description
This course is provided by Prepare Iowa and will require a secondary login and/or registration.
The purpose of this scenario is to use the principles of crisis and risk communication during a response for public health emergency.
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Target Audience
This course is designed for health practitioners who need to increase their ability to effectively communicate with the public, media, health care providers and response community during a public health emergency.
Learning Objectives
Having completed this course, the learner will be able to:
Discuss the underlying theories of crisis and risk communication guidelines.
Illustrate principles of developing a message map.
Explain how to utilize a message map.
Describe conducting pre-emergency planning to facilitate crisis and risk communication.
Describe strategies to effectively communicate risk to special populations.
Identify methods to identify and map special population groups.
Council of Linkages Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals (COL)/COL Tier(s)
3A2. (Tier 1): Communicates in writing and orally with linguistic and cultural proficiency
3A4. (Tier 1): Suggests approaches for disseminating public health data and information
3A5. (Tier 1): Conveys data and information to professionals and the public using a variety of approaches
3A7. (Tier 1): Facilitates communication among individuals, groups, and organizations
4A5. (Tier 1): Addresses the diversity of individuals and populations when implementing policies, programs, and services that affect the health of a community
5A5. (Tier 1): Collaborates with community partners to improve health in a community 7A14. Uses performance management systems for program and organizational improvement
Professional/Disciplinary Competencies
Public Health Preparedness Capabilities
Community Preparedness
Function 2: Build community partnerships to support health preparedness
Function 3: Engage with community organizations to foster public health, medical, and mental/behavioral health social networks
Community Recovery
Function 1: Identify and monitor public health, medical, and mental/behavioral health system recovery needs
Function 2: Coordinate community public health, medical, and mental/behavioral health system recovery operations
Emergency Operations Coordination
Function 4: Manage and sustain the public health response
Emergency Public Information and Warning
Function 1: Activate the emergency public information system
Function 2: Determine the need for a joint public information system
Function 3: Establish and participate in information system operations
Function 4: Establish avenues for public interaction and information exchange
Function 5: Issue public information, alerts, warnings, and notifications
Information Sharing
Function 1: Identify stakeholders to be incorporated into information flow
Function 2: Identify and develop rules and data elements for sharing
Function 3: Exchange information to determine a common operating picture
Medical Surge
Function 1: Assess the nature and scope of the incident
Function 2: Support activation of medical surge
Function 3: Support jurisdictional medical surge operations
Function 4: Support demobilization of medical surge operations
Public Health Surveillance and Epidemiological Investigation
Function 1: Conduct public health surveillance and detection
Function 2: Conduct public health and epidemiological investigations
Function 3: Recommend, monitor, and analyze mitigation actions
Function 4: Improve public health surveillance and epidemiological investigation systems
Format
Online/Self-study
Credit /CEU
None available
Duration
1 hr.
Specifications
None listed
Course Publication Date
None listed
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