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Certificate of Achievement
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Violence affects the health of individuals and societies in multiple ways, and healthcare can play an important role in maintaining and building peaceful societies. Medical peace work uses the the competencies, tools and opportunities that health professionals have at their disposal to prevent and reduce violence, and to promote peace, with the ultimate goal of improving health.
6 weeks, 2 hours per week
Dr Adi Vyas
Lecturer in Public Health
University of Bergen
Dr Klaus Melf
Coordinator, Medical Peace Work partnership
University of Bergen
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Learning outcomes
- Describe how conflict, violence, and peace are related to health
- Assess and respond to signs of domestic violence or torture in clinical practice
- Design healthcare for refugees and in conflict areas
- Identify the health effects of climate change and nuclear war
- Contribute to medical peace work efforts globally and locally
Syllabus
Basic concepts in medical peace work, including:
- Types of conflict
- Forms of violence: direct, structural, and cultural
- Hierarchies of violence: collective, interpersonal, and self-induced
- Levels of violence: mega, macro, meso, and micro
- Preventing violence
- Understanding peace as the negation of violence and the capacity to deal with conflicts positively
- Risks and limitations of medical peace work
Six case studies demonstrating how health professionals can:
- Engage in conflict-sensitive peace-health work in war and post-war settings
- Provide appropriate healthcare for refugees
- Recognise and help in healing victims of torture
- Recognise and respond to domestic violence in clinical practice
- Respond to a nuclear explosion
- Prepare for the health effects of climate change
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Issued on 2nd June 2018
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