Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Public Health Incidents Involving Lead
This course has covered: What lead is and the overall health impacts of lead exposure and public health responses and risk management; The different sources of lead in the environment; What you should do if you think someone has been exposed to lead and some real life lead case studies; How to test for lead in the environment and in people; Finally, how to prevent on-going exposure to lead and public health standards used and steps needed to resolve incidents.
4 weeks, 2 hours per week
Louise Uffindel
Environmental Public Health Scientist
UK Health Security Agency
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Describe what lead is
- Debate different public health models used internationally
- Explain the health effects of lead poisoning
- Describe and discuss different lead incidents
- Identify when someone has lead poisoning
- Explain what to do if someone has been poisoned with lead
- Describe how you can remove or break the source, pathway and receptor model
- Explain how you can test for lead in the environment
- Explain the evidence behind the change in blood lead intervention concentration in England
- Debate the blood lead intervention values used internationally and the evidence behind these concentrations
- Reflect upon knowledge gained and undertake further courses on environmental health topics
Syllabus
- Is lead an important public health issue?
- Why is tackling lead poisoning important?
- What types of lead incidents do we see?
- How can we prevent lead poisoning and test for lead?
- What blood lead intervention concentrations are used internationally?
Issued on 10th July 2023
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