Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
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 involves health professionals using the competencies, tools and opportunities at their disposal for preventing and reducing violence, and for building and promoting 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
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Discuss definitions of peace, conflict, and violence and their relationship to the health professions
- Describe the different types of medical peace work that health care professionals can participate in globally and locally
- Recognise and respond to various forms of violence in health practice
Syllabus
1) Basic concepts in Medical Peace Work, including:
- A holistic concept of peace as the negation of violence; peace as a state of harmony; and peace as a capacity to deal with conflicts in a positive manner.
- Understanding conflict in terms of attitude, behaviour and content/contradiction.
- Understanding the different forms of violence (direct, structural and cultural), the hierarchies of violence (collective, interpersonal, and self-induced), and the different levels of violence (mega, macro, meso, and micro level).
- Understanding the timing of peace work in terms of primary, secondary and tertiary prevention.
- Understanding the risks and limitations of Medical Peace Work.
2) Exploring six topics or case studies in Medical Peace Work, illustrating how healthcare and allied professionals can:
- Engage in conflict-sensitive peace-health work in war and post-war settings.
- Recognise and respond to domestic violence in clinical practice.
- Provide appropriate healthcare for refugees.
- Recognise and help in healing victims of torture.
- Respond to a nuclear explosion, and understand its determinants.
- Prepare for the health effects of climate change.
In association with
Issued on 7th September 2018
The person named on this certificate has completed the activities in the transcript above. For more information about Certificates of Achievement and the effort required to become eligible, visit futurelearn.com/proof-of-learning/certificate-of-achievement.
This certificate represents proof of learning. It is not a formal qualification, degree, or part of a degree.