Third Thursday Breakfast Broadcast
Third Thursday Breakfast Broadcast is a monthly satellite broadcast series on new and emerging public health issues. It is sponsored by the School of Public Health, the NYS Department of Health, the NYS Community Health Partnership, the NYS Association of County Health Officials, and the NYS Nurses Association.
Cancer Mapping
Satellite broadcast originally aired July 19, 2001
- Now available via videostreaming through funding from the New York-New Jersey Public Health Training Center (This requires a “Real Media” player, which you can download free.)
- Apply for Continuing Education Credits
Mark Baptiste, PhD, Director, Division of Chronic Disease Prevention and Adult Health, NYS Department of Health discusses the Cancer Surveillance Improvement Initiative which includes the production of maps and other graphic representations that track the incidence of cancer, along with accompanying explanatory and health education materials. Its ultimate goal is to increase understanding of the causes and risk factors for cancer and to promote prevention and early detection. ZIP Code level maps of breast, colorectal and lung cancer and county level maps detailing incidence of 11 types of cancer have been released.
Objectives
As a result of this program, participants will be able to:
- Describe the criteria for success of a cancer mapping program.
- Describe how cancer mapping is done
- Describe the significance of the ratio of observed versus expected number of cancers.
Continuing Education
This Educational Activity is presented by the School of Public Health Continuing Education, which has been approved as a provider of continuing education by the New York State Nurses Association’s Council on Continuing Education, which is accredited by the American Nurses’ Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. It has been approved for 1.0 contact hours and has been assigned approval code 54NLRE-PRV-02-031.
The School of Public Health, University at Albany, SUNY, is accredited by the Medical Society of the State of New York to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians. The School designates this educational activity for 1.0 Category One credits towards the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.
This activity is sponsored by the School of Public Health, University at Albany, SUNY, a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for the CHES to receive up to xx Category I CECH in health education.
For further information, contact Cheryl Reeves, Assistant Director of Continuing Education, School of Public Health via e-mail and include "t2b2" in subject line. creeves@albany.edu
Last update: Dec. 8, 2003
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