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course 1
chapter 1: Peace and conflict theory
lesson 1: What is peace?
lesson 2: Conflict theory
lesson 3: Types of violence
lesson 4: What is peace work
chapter 2: Medical Peace Work - a response to violent conflict
lesson 1: Health professionals involvement in peace work
lesson 2: A public health approach to violence and war
lesson 3: The health sector contribution to peace
lesson 4: Risks and limitations of medical peace work
chapter 3: Peace skills for health workers
lesson 1: Conflict analysis
lesson 2: Nonviolent social change
lesson 3: Nonviolent communication
course 2
chapter 1: The legal context
lesson 1: Health and human rights norms and standards
lesson 2: The role of health professionals in defending health and human rights
lesson 3: Medical neutrality and international humanitarian law
lesson 4: The health professions ethical codes
chapter 2: Health professionals and human rights
lesson 1: Ethical dilemmas and risks of violating human rights
lesson 2: Upholding the right to health
lesson 3: A rights-based approach to health policy
course 3
chapter 1: Weapons of mass destruction
lesson 1: Nuclear weapons
lesson 2: Biological weapons
lesson 3: Chemical weapons
lesson 4: Radiological weapons
chapter 2: The health effects of other weapons and conflict strategies
lesson 1: Landmines
lesson 2: New types of weapon
lesson 3: Rape as a military strategy
lesson 4: The public health effects of conflict
lesson 5: Small arms and light weapons
chapter 3: The health professions responses to war and weapons
lesson 1: Educating the public
lesson 2: A history of health professional activism for peace
lesson 3: Data-to-policy work
lesson 4: Health professional alliances with larger movements
course 4
chapter 1: An overview of development
lesson 1: Violence and development
lesson 2: The scale and impact of poverty
lesson 3: The scale and impact of inequality
lesson 4: What is health?
chapter 2: Poverty inequality and violence
lesson 1: Origins of structural violence 1 - local forces
lesson 2: Origins of structural violence - global forces
lesson 3: Underlying causes of civil war - ethnicity
lesson 4: poverty inequality and economic development
lesson 5: political factors
lesson 6: the international dimension
chapter 3: Case studies
lesson 1: Underlying causes of violent conflict in the Niger Delta
lesson 2: Rwanda - what caused the genocide?
lesson 3: Partitioning Iraq?
chapter 4: Responses to structural violence and the underlying causes of direct violence
lesson 1: Reducing structural violence - national level interventions
lesson 2: Reducing structural violence - international level interventions
lesson 3: The importance of health systems
course 5
chapter 1: Medical assistance in violent conflict
lesson 1: Changing attitudes to health and illness during violent conflict
lesson 2: The relationship between war and medicine
lesson 3: Military medicine in the 20th century
lesson 4: Humanitarian health aid
lesson 5: Armed forces as humanitarian actors
lesson 6: Medical neutrality
chapter 2: Offering support during violent conflict
lesson 1: How health initiatives bring people together
lesson 2: Do no harm the impact of aid
lesson 3: Protecting civilians during violent conflict
lesson 4: Conflict resolution and mediation
chapter 3: Improving mental health after violent conflict
lesson 1: Mental health and violence: individual problems and solutions
lesson 2: Community interventions and psychosocial trauma programmes
lesson 3: Justice, truth and reconciliation
course 6
chapter 1: Asylum and migration
lesson 1: Definitions
lesson 2: The migrants journey
lesson 3: Why people become migrants
chapter 2: The migrants journey and life in a camp
lesson 1: Health in refugee camps
lesson 2: Refugee health in urban settings
lesson 3: Violence in refugee camps
lesson 4: Gender-based violence in refugee camps
chapter 3: Adapting to a new landscape
lesson 1: Reception in Europe expectation and reality
lesson 2: Holistic care and cultural competence
lesson 3: Examples of good practice in Europe
chapter 4: Ethics and self-care for health workers
esson 1: Duty of care, confidentiality and dual loyalty
lesson 2: Caring for the carer
lesson 3: Health workers as advocates
course 7
chapter 1: Preventing interpersonal violence
lesson 1: Definition and nature of interpersonal violence
lesson 2: Interpersonal violence as a health problem
lesson 3: At-risk groups and the public health approach
lesson 4: Primary prevention of interpersonal violence
chapter 2: Preventing self-directed violence
lesson 1: The epidemiology of self-directed violence
lesson 2: Vulnerability to suicidal behaviour
lesson 3: Treating suicidal people and people who self-harm
lesson 4: Preventing suicide
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