Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Addressing Violence Through Patient Care
This online course explored some of the key concepts and challenges in the field of medical peace work, particularly the importance of violence prevention and peace practice for healthcare professionals. The course covered aspects of theory, field work and advocacy focusing on working with domestic violence, refugee healthcare and healing torture victims. Three case studies illustrate the specific challenges of treating victims of violence, and healthcare professionals role in helping them.
3 weeks, 3 hours per week
Ingvild Fossgard Sandøy
Professor of Public Health
University of Bergen
Dr Klaus Melf
Coordinator, Medical Peace Work partnership
University of Bergen
Transcript
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
Syllabus
1) Three case studies demonstrate how health professionals can:
- Recognise and respond to domestic violence in clinical practice.
- Provide appropriate healthcare for refugees.
- Recognise and help in healing victims of torture.
2) Basic concepts in Medical Peace Work, including:
- 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
- Risks and limitations of medical peace work
We also offer a course called Global Health, Conflict and Violence which you may be interested in. These courses combined contain material from our previous course Medical Peace Work.
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Issued on 24th February 2020
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