Content and Course Structure- Core course Brescia
Content
Introduction and orientation
Concepts and research methods
Health problems and responses
Health systems, management and communication
TOT.
Aims of the course, health and globalization, history of development, international human law
Anthropology, training of the trainers, basic epidemiology and statistics, methodology of the research, health and migration
Maternal and child health, nutrition, TB, HIV,
STDs, major endemic diseases in the tropics
Health economics, health information systems, health systems management, primary health care, emergencies management
Contact hours
18
68
118
60
264
Self study time
27
(ECTS 0.5)
97
(ECTS 5.5)
108
(ECTS 7.5)
104
(ECTS 5.5)
336
(ECTS 20)

Building blocks of the core course
International health policies and international health
Research methodology and epidemiology
Maternal and Child Health
Poverty related diseases and
Contents
- health and globalization
- history of development
- anthropology
- Primary Health Care
- health economics
- health systems
- sector wide approach and budget support
- organization of health systems in low- middle-income countries
- social determinants of health
- International human law
- actors and politics in international cooperation
Contact
Hours
(Selfstudy hours)
65
(120)
- KAP principles (knowledge, attitude, practice)
- training of trainers: tools, methodologies, teaching and learning methods
- human resources and materials management
- evaluation
- epidemiology
- database management and data analysis
- creation of a questionnaire with
Epi Info and analysis of data with Epi Info
- statistics
58
(70)
45
(70)
- principal indicators for maternal and child health at international level
- international priorities for the mother and the child
- maternal health
- delivery
- newborns and child health
- breastfeeding
- Expanded Program on
Immunization
- Malnutrition
- Mother and child mortality
- HIV 74

migration medicine
Emergencies management
- STDs
- TB
- Migration medicine
- Malaria
- Leishmaniasis
- Soil-transmitted infections
- Chagas
- Trypanosomiasis
- Filariasis
- Schistosomiasis
- Travellers’ behaviour
(56)
- Ten priorities in an emergency context
- Humanitarian personnel in emergencies contexts
- How to manage an epidemic emergency
- Nutritional emergency
- Emergency surgery
- Sexual violence in emergency contexts
22
(20)