Health assistance in humanitarian crisis, 12 credits
Hälsoinsatser i humanitära kriser, 12 hpThis course syllabus is valid from spring 2018.
- Course code
- 9K9004
- Course name
- Health assistance in humanitarian crisis
- Credits
- 12 credits
- Form of Education
- Contract education (credits)
- Main field of study
- Public Health Sciences
- Level
- AV - Second cycle
- Grading scale
- Fail (U) or pass (G)
- Department
- Department of Global Public Health
- Decided by
- Education committee PHS
- Decision date
- 2018-01-10
- Course syllabus valid from
- Spring 2018
Specific entry requirements
Objectives
After the course the student should be able to:
Knowledge and understanding
- describe the general global health situation and factors that determine variations and summarize general strategies relevant for improving global health
- in relation to common communicable dieseases: describe the global burden, vulnerable groups, transmission, clinical manifestation and management
- in relation to maternal- and child health: describe the global burden, clinical manifestation and management of common diseases and disorders
Within humanitarian contexts, the student should be able to:
- identify, interpret and summarise information related to the interrelationship between hazardous events, vulnerable populations and health outcome
- assess health strategies limiting morbidity and mortality
- plan for health promotion programs
- argue for key components needed and plan for the control of communicable diseases
- develop programs for prevention and management of maternal and child health, including acute malnutrition.
Content
The course comprises a total of eight weeks (estimated to 12 credits), of combined campus and web based learning.
The course focuses on humanitarian health assisetance from the following core areas.
- Global health overview
- Communicable diseases, epidemic outbreaks
- Maternal and child health
Detailed content:
Global health and its variations, health in disasters
The module focus on global health in a humanitarian context
- The global health situation and health determinants
- Health systems
- Basic principles of epidemiology
- Non-communicable diseases - global burden and strategies
- Mental health
- Humanitarian health assistance, principles and scope:
- main actors and coordination
- needs assessment and planning of interventions
- essential standards and guidelines
- health priorities
- health promotion
- mental health
- trauma and mass-casualty management.
The module focus on communicable diseases and epidemic outbreaks.
- The global health situation of communicable diseases and epidemic outbreaks
- Common communicable diseases, including pneumonia, diarrhoeal diseases, malaria, tuberculosis, etc.
- Principles of communicable disease control, including extended programme for immunization and other global disease control programmes
- Response to epidemic outbreaks, such as measles, meningitis, hepatitis and shigellosis
- Rational use of drugs
The module focus on maternal and child health in a humanitarian context
- Maternal health, including sexual and reproductive health
- The global health situation of maternal health
- Safe motherhood (antenatal, delivery and postpartum care)
- Family planning and post abortion care
- Health strategies and interventions concerning sexual and gender based violence, including female genital mutilation
- Child health and the global health situation of child health
- Integrated management of childhood diseases
- Neonatology and care of the newborn child
- Preventive, integrated and curative health services for common child diseases and health threats
- Care and management of acute malnutrition
Teaching methods
Examination
The course will also be examined through five group assignments that will be examined in writing and in oral presentations. The groups will also be examined through a peer-learning part where the students will review and give feed-back on each other's work.
The group assignments are collected throughout the course, while the oral presentations take place in in seminars during the last week on campus.
The student receives one final grade for the whole course (Pass/Fail). In order to pass the course, the student must pass on the individual examination and also on all five group assignments.
Limitation of number of occasions to write the exam
The student has the right to write the exam six times. If the student has not passed the exam after four participations he/she is encouraged to visit the study advisor.
The number of times that the student has participated in one and the same examination is regarded as an examination session. Submission of a blank examination is regarded as an examination. An examination for which the student registered but not participated in will not be counted as an examination.
Literature and other teaching aids
Additional material and reference literture will be added during the course
John Hopkins School of Public Health, International federation of Red Cross red Crescent Societies, 2008
Lund : Studentlitteratur, 2006 - 327 s. ISBN:91-44-02198-4 LIBRIS-ID:9987549 Kapitel 1 - 3 Library search
WHO, 2013
WHO/Unicef, Geneva, 2009
Medecins Sans Frontieres, 2016
Medecins Sans Frontieres, 2016