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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Médecins du Monde
This course covered: the core values, principles and evidence-base of harm reduction, risk factors in drug use from a social, physical and policy perspective, the public health dimension of drug use globally, risk factors associated with drug use, agency, empowerment and the role of the community of people who use drugs, prevention and policy reforms, policy foundations of advocacy for scaling up Harm Reduction globally, human rights perspective within the public health debate on drug use.
3 weeks, 3 hours per week
Tim Rhodes
Professor of Public Health Sociology
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Ernst Wisse
Harm reduction advisor
Médecins du Monde
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explain the core values, principles and evidence-base of the harm reduction approach
- Describe the public health dimension of drug use on a global perspective and evaluate the evidence on what causes poor health outcomes and what is known about how to prevent them
- Identify the core risk factors in relation to drug use from a social, physical and policy perspective
- Reflect on elevating risk factors associated with drug use
- Discuss the meaning of agency, empowerment and the role of the community of people who use drugs taking up a leading role in drug policy health provision, prevention and policy reforms
- Interpret the human rights perspective within the public health debate of drug use
- Demonstrate an understanding of the role and policy foundations of advocacy for scaling up Harm Reduction globally
Syllabus
- What is Harm Reduction?
- The public health dimension of drug use and harm reduction
- The human rights dimension of drug use and harm reduction
- The community at the heart of the response
- Advocacy around scaling up of harm reduction.
Issued on 8th July 2023
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