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Klaus Melf, Stefi Barna, Adi Vyas, Ingvild Fossgard Sandøy, Judith Lindert, Davina Kaur Patel, Katharina Bögel, Basema Salman Spijkerman, Eva-Maria Schwienhorst-Stich, Frank Arnold, gabriella arcadu, Katja Goebbels, and Louisa Chan boegli

Violence affects health in many ways, from the micro (individual) to the macro (societal). This course will help you understand how healthcare professionals can build peaceful and healthy societies by recognizing, responding to, and helping prevent various forms of violence. By the end of this course, you will be able to: Basic concepts in medical peace work, including: Six case studies demonstrating how health professionals can: By the end of the course, you'll be able to... This course has been created for people with some experience in healthcare. It is particularly relevant to students in clinical healthcare professions (such as medicine, nursing, and allied health) and equally relevant to those working in broader disciplines (such as public health, global health, and development studies). The University of Bergen (UiB) offers first-class education and cutting-edge research at our location in the city centre of Bergen, Norway. Find out what this course is like by previewing some of the course steps before you join:

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Violence affects health in many ways, from the micro (individual) to the macro (societal). This course will help you understand how healthcare professionals can build peaceful and healthy societies by recognizing, responding to, and helping prevent various forms of violence. By the end of this course, you will be able to: Basic concepts in medical peace work, including: Six case studies demonstrating how health professionals can: By the end of the course, you'll be able to... This course has been created for people with some experience in healthcare. It is particularly relevant to students in clinical healthcare professions (such as medicine, nursing, and allied health) and equally relevant to those working in broader disciplines (such as public health, global health, and development studies). The University of Bergen (UiB) offers first-class education and cutting-edge research at our location in the city centre of Bergen, Norway. Find out what this course is like by previewing some of the course steps before you join:

Topics Covered

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  • Provide appropriate healthcare in
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  • Prepare for the health effects of
  • and
  • Types of conflict
  • 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 and the capacity to deal with conflicts positively
  • Risks and limitations of medical peace work
  • Engage in conflict-sensitive peace-health work in
  • and
  • settings
  • Provide appropriate healthcare for
  • Recognise and help in healing victims of
  • Recognise and respond to
  • in clinical practice
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  • Prepare for the health effects of

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