Cleaning for a Healthy Indoor Environment for Children
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Posted by Web Team, September 27, 2005
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Please join the Center for Hygiene and Health in Home and Community this October for our professional education conference…
“Cleaning for a Healthy Indoor Environment for Children”
For more information and to register, visit us on the web at http://www.simmons.edu/hygieneandhealth/conference/ and download our brochure.
10.5 Contact Hours are provided for nurses! Simmons College is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Massachusetts Association of Registered Nurses, Inc., an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
1.5 CM (certificate maintenance) points for are provided for industrial hygienists!
Synopsis: The conference will discuss the benefits of cleaning and disinfection in homes, schools, daycare centers, sports facilities, camps, and other facilities, to reduce the risk of infection acquisition and transmission and to aid in the prevention and control of mold. The conference will also address issues related to cleaning including antibiotic resistance, the Hygiene Hypothesis, limiting toxicity and! on-going research into new solutions. The aim is to present new information and practical approaches.
Speakers include faculty from Simmons College departments of Biology, Nursing, and Health Studies, as well as, speakers from the University of Ottawa (Center for Research on Environmental Microbiology), Harvard School of Public Health, Brigham and Young University, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine among others.
Dates: Monday and Tuesday, October 24 and 25, 2005
Location: Simmons College Linda K. Paresky Conference Center, 3rd Floor 300 The Fenway Boston, MA 02115
