Global Health, Conflict and Violence
Understand the role of medical peace work and healthcare workers in times of conflict and violence with this online course from the University of Bergen.
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Explore the role of medics and healthcare workers in promoting peace
On this course you will learn about the key principles and different forms of medical peace work in the context of global health, conflict and violence. You will consider the role healthcare workers have to play in the prevention of violence and peace practices.
You will examine scenarios such as working in a conflict zone, nuclear explosions, storms, floods, heatwaves, infectious disease, migration and violent conflict. In each case you will consider the effects of these on global health.
What topics will you cover?
1) Animated stories to illustrate the effects of personal and structural violence in global health:
- Working in a conflict zone
- Responding to a nuclear explosion
- Preparing for the health effects of climate change
2) Basic concepts of medical peace work:
- The forms that violence can take: direct, structural, and cultural
- The hierarchies of violence: collective, interpersonal, and self-induced
- The levels at which violence takes place: mega, macro, meso, and micro
- How to prevent all these forms of violence
We also offer a course called Addressing Violence Through Patient Care which you may be interested in. Both of these courses contain material from our previous course entitled Medical Peace Work.
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