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Learning outcomes

Upon completion of the course, the students are equipped with the skills to analyze the effects of disasters and silent emergencies on human health and health systems. They have adopted the basic principles of health care in crisis and are able to assess, plan, implement and monitor health care in exceptional situations.

Contents

- History, trends, background and causes of humanitarian crises in the world
- The legal context of humanitarian assistance, rights and duties of aid personnel
- The international mechanisms for protection of human rights in humanitarian crisis
- Stakeholders, their tasks and local and international co-operation in humanitarian crisis
- Main public health problems in different types of man made crisis and natural disasters and their mechanisms
- Overall priorities in health care in humanitarian crisis and vulnerable groups
- Health needs assessment in humanitarian crisis
- Special features of military health care
- Transition from short term emergency aid to long term rehabilitation

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Evaluation

Belongs to following study modules

2012–2013

Teaching

Archived Teaching Schedule. Please refer to current Teaching Shedule.

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