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Louisiana School of Public Health – LA

By allied health world contributing writer
Published:  February 12th, 2010

Center for Environmental Health Services

The Center for Environmental Health Services (CEHS) in Louisiana was designed to protect the health of the general public by ensuring that the Louisiana State Sanitary Code is properly enforced. CEHS engineers and sanitarians are used to reduce the possibility of the transmission of diseases. The state’s water systems are watched closely by the CEHS to ensure safe drinking water for all residents.

Manufacturers of food and drugs, restaurants, the dairy industry’s milk, and areas in which molluscan shellfish are grown are also closely watched by the CEHS to make sure that all of these products are safe for Louisianans. Also, the CEHS Section of Environmental Epidemiology and Toxicology (SEET) closely watches any possible exposure from humans to chemical agents that may be released into the environment, and determines the health risks of these chemical agents.

http://www.dhh.louisiana.gov/offices/?ID=242

Center for Preventive Health

The Center for Preventive Health in Louisiana has many divisions that are very important to the state. Louisiana public health schools have curriculum designed around these specific fields:

• Family planning
• Nutrition
• STDs
• Child and maternal health
• Genetic diseases
• HIV/AIDS prevention
• Immunization programs
• Healthier Cajun cooking
• Tuberculosis control
• Program for the certification of yellow fever vaccination
• Children’s Special Health Services (CSHS)

http://www.dhh.louisiana.gov/offices/?ID=241

Center for Records and Statistics

Louisiana’s Center for Records and Statistics provides Louisianans with crucial information like birth and death records, marriage records, and paternity information and putative father registry. It also includes the State Center for Health Statistics, which covers the following tasks:

• Maintaining, analyzing, assembling, and coding health-related datasets.
• Preparing ad hoc reports as they are requested.
• Providing health-related data to the general public, as well as governmental agencies and researchers.
• Publishing such annual reports as the Vital Statistics Report, Vital Statistics Overview, and the Louisiana Health Report Card.

More information on the State Center for Health Statistics, along with all other branches of the Center for Records and Statistics in Louisiana, can be accessed at http://www.dhh.louisiana.gov/offices/?ID=252.

Emergency Medical Services

Louisiana’s bureau of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) performs the following tasks:

• Compiles a database of EMS volunteers who are eligible to assist with responses to bioterrorism, vaccinations, and projects that are related to strategic stockpile distribution.
• Publishes administrative rules that are designed to provide government over disciplinary hearings for the EMS Certification Commission.
• Sponsors a statewide 800 hotline and CISM program for Louisiana’s residents.
• Sponsors meetings to discuss health issues for rural communities like diversion and inter-facility transportation and reimbursement.

The EMS has provided the following services for children:

• Held a Children’s Summit that discussed the need for families to be prepared to respond to terrorist activities and natural disasters.
• Began a state Risk Watch Program in conjunction with Louisiana’s fire marshal office, Louisiana State Police, and the Department of Education.

http://www.dhh.louisiana.gov/offices/?ID=220

Through campus based and online programs, aspiring Public Health Professionals in New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Shreveport, Louisiana may be able to prepare themselves for the possibility of employment in some of the largest hospitals and healthcare facilities in the state including Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, CHRISTUS Schumpert Saint Mary Place, and Ochsner Medical Center.