Learning outcomes

To provide students with skills to analyze the effects of disasters and silent emergencies on human health and health systems. To give students knowledge on basic principles of health care in crises and skills that will enable them 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

Teaching methods

Teaching method	Contact	Online
Lectures	25 h	0 h
Group work	29 h	0 h
Independent work	66 h	0 h

Teaching language

English

Evaluation and evaluation criteria

Pass/fail.
Participation in at least 75% of the lectures, active participation in group works and seminars, completion of a learning diary.

Recommended year of study

1. year autumn

Belongs to following study modules