Health in the rescue operation
[HUMA2220]
[30h] 5 credits
This course is taught in the 2d semester.
Teacher(s): Vincent Dubois, Debarati Guha, Philippe Meert
Language: French
Level: Second
Aims
- to understand the total health interactions between the populations in crisis and their environ-ment;
- to evaluate and apprehend the operational emergencies related to health;
- to understand the principles of the program scheduling of an intervention and their logistic medical implications;
- to estimate the principal elements of the sanitary and health situation of a population and to propose planning an intervention;
to assess and criticize a specific situation and to propose programs of intervention in this situation (case study).
Main themes
1. Water and drainage work;
2. Transmissible diseases;
3. nutrition;
4. Healthcare structures and medical plans.
Each one of these modules is approached within the framework of a medical intervention emergency.
Content and teaching methods
During each module, the various aspects of a health evaluation and intervention are dealt with via lectures (gen-eral framework, talks given by field experts, theoretical and/or historical case studies, analysis of specific cases).
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)
Evaluation
Written exam with multiple choices questions and short open answers questions.
Support
Collection of references, presentations and other documents of the course available on the icampus Website.