Overview
What you will find
You will find materials that you may use to offer a training for your target audience.Your target audience could be multidisciplinary, consisting of mid-career and/or senior experts in the area of public health, particularly those dealing with Legionnaires’ disease.
Description
The course incorporates different teaching methods: short presentations, group work, risk assessments using photographic material. It proposes to organise field visits to understand potential sources of outbreaks (e.g. cooling towers, spa pools and water systems).
Contents include clinical, epidemiological and environmental aspects of Legionnaires’ disease, water systems and control measures, diagnostics, principles of outbreak investigation in different settings (community, travel-related and nosocomial outbreaks), risk assessment and communication.Objectives/Intended learning outcomes
The goal of this training is to strengthen the participant’s knowledge and skills in order to improve the collaboration and communication among the different disciplines (microbiology, environmental health and epidemiology) involved in a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak investigation and control.