Ateneo - UPO

PUBLIC HEALTH AND HUMANITARIAN CRISES
• Public health in humanitarian crises: its role in the broader context
• Principles of needs assessments, public health situation analysis, estimation of mortality, assessment of nutritional status
• Best practices of data interpretation and communication

CLIMATE CHANGE AND HEALTH
-Introduction to climate change and health
- Extreme weather events and health
- Pathways to a Healthy Net Zero Future
- Sustainable Health Care

PUBLIC HEALTH AND HUMANITARIAN CRISES
Health in Humanitarian Crises. A Lancet series. The Lancet, June 2017: 1-52

CLIMATE CHANGE AND HEALTH
Lemery, Knowlton, Sorensen. Global Climate Change and Human Health: From Science to Practice, 2nd Edition. Jossey-Bass. San Francisco. 2021

PUBLIC HEALTH AND HUMANITARIAN CRISES

The course aims:
• to introduce participants to key epidemiological concepts and methods relevant to humanitarian crises in resource-limited settings
• to improve their capacity to identify and interpret health and context-relevant data for defining health priorities, and communicating them effectively to decision-makers

CLIMATE CHANGE AND HEALTH
The course aims to provide students with an in-depth understanding of how climate change affects health. Objectives include knowledge of the main mechanisms through which climate change affects health, and how to make healthcare systems more resilient to the effects of climate change.

PUBLIC HEALTH AND HUMANITARIAN CRISES
Principles of humanitarian action. Definitions of emergencies, disasters, humanitarian crises. Understanding of the structure of the humanitarian system.

CLIMATE CHANGE AND HEALTH
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PUBLIC HEALTH AND HUMANITARIAN CRISES
The module uses a combination of lectures, short exercises and a simulation. Students are encouraged to actively participate in the training sessions.

CLIMATE CHANGE AND HEALTH
The module uses a combination of interactive lectures and case study discussions.

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Assessment is conducted through a written exam with multiple-choice questions

PUBLIC HEALTH AND HUMANITARIAN CRISES
• Public health in humanitarian crises: its role in the broader context
• Principles of needs assessments, public health situation analysis, estimation of mortality, assessment of nutritional status
• Best practices of data interpretation and communication

CLIMATE CHANGE AND HEALTH
- What Climate Change is and how it affects health. Impacts of climate change from a life course perspective
- Extreme weather event associated to climate change and their effects on health. The role of extreme temperatures, wildfires, floods and storms
-water-borne and vector-borne diseases associated to climate change
- Mental health and climate change
- effects of climate change on food, nutrition, migrations and displacements
- Pathways to a Healthy Net Zero Future. The role of co-benefits in health policies
- Sustainable healthcare. Building Health Systems’ Resilience to Climate Change
- Climate Justice. The unequal impacts of climate change on the health of marginalized or otherwise vulnerable populations

PUBLIC HEALTH AND HUMANITARIAN CRISES

At the end of the course the students will be:
• knowledgeable about key issues of public health in humanitarian crises
• be able to define the role of public health in humanitarian crises and identify key health indicators
• be able to describe principles and best practice of key functions of public health in humanitarian crises

CLIMATE CHANGE AND HEALTH
Students will be able to:

understand the principles of the complex relation between climate change and health.
know the most important mechanisms through which climate change affects health.
understand the basic principles of sustainable healthcare
know the basics of climate justice related to the health domain.
use basic epidemiological measures to evaluate climate-related health outcomes in a population