Health in the rescue operation

Teacher(s)

Meert Philippe ; Guha Debarati ;

Language

Français

Main themes

The course is divided into 4 modules: 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.

Aims

Within the framework of humanitarian emergencies and rescue operation, the student will be able for each module: - 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).

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.

Content

teaching languages: French and English. 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

No particular prerequisite, with the exception of "NOHA admissibility" (except for the knowledge of the English language). The participation in the courses, the discussions and the exercises are strongly advised. 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.

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