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Short Courses in International Health
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We would like to announce the following training courses offered
by the Department of Tropical Hygiene and Public Health of the
University of Heidelberg, Germany.

The courses are designed to contribute to the capacity building
of professionals working in the health sector in low and middle
income countries.

Our target group includes MDs, nurses, pharmacists, policy mak-
ers, project/program planners, managers, social scientists, edu-
cators, consultants, etc.

All courses are accredited within "tropEd", a European Network
for Education, which offers a joint Master in International
Health, yet they are open for individual further training.

Participants receive a certificate of attendance from the Uni-
versity of Heidelberg.

Remaining courses for 2005

* Health and Human Rights In collaboration with WHO, ILO, UNFPA
  10 ­ 21 October 2005, EUR 1.000 (reduced fee for first round)

* Financing Health Care ­ Principles of Insurance
  7 ­ 18 November 2005, EUR 1.500

* Medical Anthropology as a Tool for Public Health
  21 Nov ­ 2 Dec 2005, EUR 1.000 (reduced fee for first round)

You will find a detailed description of the courses at the end
of this e-mail.

For further information, organisation & application forms please
mailto:short.courses at urz.uni-heidelberg.de

You can also consult the web site:
http://www.hyg.uni-heidelberg.de/ithoeg/teaching/short/short.htm

Please forward this e-mail also to interested colleagues.
Thank you.

Kind regards,

Ms Natascha Petersen
Short Courses in International Health
Department of Tropical Hygiene and Public Health
University of Heidelberg, INF 324
69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Tel: + 49-6221-56-7065
Fax: + 49-6221-56-4918
mailto:Natascha_Petersen at urz.uni-heidelberg.de
mailto:Short.courses at urz.uni-heidelberg.de

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Short Courses in International Health 2005
at Heidelberg University, Germany

Health and Human Rights
10 ­ 21 October 2005

External Collaborators

* World Health Organization (WHO)
Interface and dynamics between global human rights policy and
global health policy

* International Labour Organization (ILO)
Practice of child labour and the impact on their mental and
physical health.

* United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Pertinent issues within the human rights framework: sexual and
reproductive health, violence against women, gender equality and
women's empowerment.

Internal Collaborators

* South Asia Institute (SAI) at the University of Heidelberg
Using the framework of medical anthropology to provide insight
on local and cultural concepts of human rights.

* Institute for the History of Medicine at the University of
Heidelberg
Providing a historical background on human rights concepts.

Contents Overview

This course of study covers the general concepts and principles
of human rights, their relationship to, and impact within the
health sector.

The course will use case studies from numerous countries, with a
focus on low and middle-income countries, and the experiences of
those within the course, to examine the vital role of human
rights within the health sector.

Participants will have the opportunity to practice incorporating
human rights into policies, strategies, monitoring and evalua-
tion.

Objectives

To enable health professionals and managers to understand the
concepts and principles of human rights within the health sector
and to improve their personal skills in applying and evaluating
these rights. By the end of the Course participants should be
able to:

* Demonstrate knowledge of the implications for health within
the basic covenants for human rights

* Identify the key principles that underpin human rights discus-
sions within the health sector

* Explain the human rights principles in relation to the main
topics within the health sector: Equity, Access, Non-
discrimination, Accountability

* Describe and discuss the implications on human rights of spe-
cific policies and strategies for prioritizing health interven-
tions for the poor and the vulnerables.

* Formulate a strategy for a low income country to address eq-
uity in the accessibility to drugs

* Discuss states parties' and international obligations and
mechanisms to protect and promote human rights within the health
sector

* Describe international and local response mechanisms within
the health sector to assist victims of human rights violations

* Elaborate strategies to monitor the application of human
rights principles in the health sector


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Financing Health Care ­ Principles of Insurance
7 ­ 18 November 2005

Objectives

The overall objective of this module is to learn experiences and
lessons learnt from different countries in the area of financing
health care, which can then be applied to different contexts.

In addition, discussion of cases will enable the students to de-
velop an analytic approach to problem solving and apply theo-
retical knowledge to a real life context.

Specifically, upon the completion of this course, participants
will:

* Describe the basic tools used in development and assessment of
financing mechanisms and critically analyse the advantages and
weaknesses of these tools

* Critically analyse the roles of the public and private sector
in health financing in different context

* Compare and analyse the basic features of health financing
mechanisms in developing countries and in developed countries

* Design a scheme of health financing based on current theories
and case study examples

Contents Overview

* Options for the financing of health services
* Evaluation tools for financing of health services
* Social health insurance: Case studies from Germany, Thailand
* Technical aspects of social insurance in other European coun-
tries
* Field trip: visits of different players in the German health
insurance system
* Traditional risk sharing schemes in West Africa: classifica-
tion, tasks and functions
* Community based insurance (CBI): rationale, concepts and im-
plementation
* CBI case: CBI study in Burkina Faso
* From CBI to universal coverage: re-insurance


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Anthropology as a tool for Public Health
November 21 ­ December 2

When health professionals come to work in contexts different
from their own they are often faced with a set of challenging
questions: Why do health policies and programmes not work every-
where? How can we understand different cultural ideas about
health and the body, and how do such ideas affect our health
programs? Why is knowledge about certain health risks not enough
to change actual patient behaviour? And why do people prefer lo-
cal healers even though they have access to modern medicine?

How people explain, cure and react to illness is always shaped
by their cultural background. Even though illness is a universal
phenomena, its management is not. This cultural dimension of
health and illness is an important factor for medical profes-
sionals and Public Health workers.

This course provides essential knowledge about the links between
health and culture, and also imparts methodological tools that
will help students to understand and use cultural categories in
the context of health related work It will explore the social
and cultural determinants of health seeking behaviour, and in-
vestigate the relation between medicine and local healing sys-
tems.

In the course we will use ethnographic case studies from the
field of Medical Anthropology in order to create an understand-
ing of culturally constructed concepts of illness and disease.
Drawing on a range of sources from different countries, includ-
ing Europe, the manifold connections between culture and health
will be explored. On the basis of these case studies the methods
of Medical Anthropology will explained and their usefulness and
applicability for health care issues demonstrated. Students will
be taught anthropological methods, and conduct training inter-
views among themselves

Content

* Medical Anthropology and Public Health
* Medical systems as cultural systems
* The body as a cultural construct
* Explanatory models and health seeking behaviour
* Methods in Medical Anthropology: combining qualitative and
quantitative methods
* Medical pluralism
* Indigenous and traditional medicine; patients and healers;
health and cosmology, ritual and religious healing
* STDs and HIV/AIDS culturally contextualised

Objectives

At the end of the course the participants will

* have demonstrated a solid understanding of the impact of cul-
turally constructed ideas on concepts of health and illness in
different social settings
* be able to use ethnographic methods in order to identify cul-
turally constructed ideas on health, illness and the body
* know how to apply the collected data and information to gain a
better understanding of specific health care problems and apply
the results in health care management issues
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