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Addressing Violence Through Patient Care
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- 3 Sequences
- Intermediate Level
- Starts on 26 января 2020
- Ends on 15 февраля 2020
Course details
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.
Prerequisite
This course has been created for people with some experience in healthcare. It is particularly relevant to clinical healthcare professionals working in medicine, nursing, and allied health.
Instructors
Ingvild Fossgard Sandøy
Professor of Public Health at the University of Bergen. Research interests: sexual and reproductive health; interpersonal violence. Teaching: Public Health, Medical Peace work, Epidemiology
Klaus Melf
Deputy Chief Medical Officer in the City of Bergen, Norway. Specialty: Community medicine. Doctorate: Occupational medicine. Master's degree: Peace and conflict transformation. Coordinator of MPW3.
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