Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Global Health, Conflict and Violence
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 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.
3 weeks, 3 hours per week
Stefi Barna
Associate Professor of public health and sustainability,
Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, India
Dr Klaus Melf
Coordinator,
Medical Peace Work partnership
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Discuss various definitions of the concepts of violence, conflict and peace, and their relationship to health professions
- Describe the types of medical peace work that health care professionals can participate in globally and locally
- Evaluate and respond to various forms of violence in health practice
Syllabus
1) Animated stories to illustrate the effects of personal and structural violence in global health:
- Working in a conflict zone
- Responding to a nuclear explosion
- Preparing for the health effects of climate change
2) Basic concepts of medical peace work:
- The forms that violence can take: direct, structural, and cultural
- The hierarchies of violence: collective, interpersonal, and self-induced
- The levels at which violence takes place: mega, macro, meso, and micro
- How to prevent all these forms of violence
We also offer a course called Addressing Violence Through Patient Care which you may be interested in. Both of these courses contain material from our previous course entitled Medical Peace Work.
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Issued on 19th February 2025
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