A Critique of the Environmental Health Training in Emergency Response Program
Overview
This paper critiques the Centers for Disease Control's Environmental Health Training in Emergency Response (EHTER) program. It analyzes the program's structure, which divides training into three tiered online courses, and evaluates the effectiveness of awareness and operational level training in addressing environmental health preparedness and emergency response.
What this essay covers
- Introduction establishing the importance of environmental health and the rationale for critiquing the EHTER program
- Description of the EHS training approach, including the three-tier course structure, duration, content areas, and delivery methods
- Assessment of program effectiveness, comparing the success of awareness versus operational level courses
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Environmental Health Training Critique
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Environmental Health Training Critique
Good health is very crucial for human survival. Environmental health is even more critical since it is the mother of most health issues (Friis, 2018). A healthy environment translates to a healthy society. Therefore, it is essential that concerned bodies like the Centre for Disease Control, CDC are carrying out environmental health training to sensitize people and help them uphold environmental health practices for the better good of society. Most of the programs are successful because CDC’s Environmental Health Services, EHS, uses the best ways to carry out the training. It is, however, healthy to criticize the whole training program. In this work, I am criticizing the Environmental Health Training in Emergency Response (EHTER)
The Approach the EHS Training Program Uses
EHS training uses online courses to address the goals of environmental health. Emergency response is a broad area that cannot be efficiently covered within one training session (Short et al., 2015). EHS divided into three courses to make it simpler and efficient during training; EHTER awareness level takes 8 hours to finish, EHTER awareness course that takes 20 hours to finish, and EHTER operational level that takes 32 hours to complete. All the courses are administered online through internet platforms.
EHTER awareness courses concentrated on the responders' role in preparing for, responding to, and recovering from disasters and emergencies ("EHTER - Environmental Health Training in Emergency Response | EHS | CDC," 2020).