- To position the prevention and control of NCDs in the actual global, regional and national context;
- To understand the applicability of policy tools for the prevention and control of chronic non communicable diseases;
- To become familiar with successful surveillance systems and methodologies in the Americas;
- To understand the applicability of policy tools for the prevention and control of chronic non communicable diseases;
- To understand social marketing and its applicability to public health problems and behavior change;
- To understand the Chronic Care Model and be able to apply the components to intervention development
- Define the terms pandemic and preparedness.;
- Describe how pandemic influenza emerges and spreads;
- Describe key steps in developing a local preparedness and response plan;
- Describe principles of effective communication during a pandemic;
- Identify preparedness and response strategies for specific community sectors;
- Identify additional resources to support local preparedness and response efforts.
- Define the terms pandemic and preparedness;
- Describe how pandemic influenza emerges and spreads;
- Describe key steps in developing a local preparedness and response plan;
- Describe principles of effective communication during a pandemic;
- Identify preparedness and response strategies for specific community sectors;
- Identify additional resources to support local preparedness and response efforts.
- Describe and analyze the issue of smoking and exposure to second-hand smoke at the global and regional level;
- Disseminate tobacco control measures contained in the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control;
- Analyze the factors that influence smoking uptake and persistence among young people;
- Describe the strategies and characteristics of smoking cessation, at the individual and population level;
- Describe the tobacco industrys opposition strategies and provide tools for analyzing and responding to industry actions;
- Present the most successful interventions and their implementation in the Region of the Americas;
- Integrate knowledge about challenges and trends to comprehensive tobacco control.
- Describe and analyze the issue of smoking and exposure to second-hand smoke at the global and regional level;
- Disseminate information about tobacco control measures contained in the WHO FCTC;
- Analyze the factors that influence smoking uptake and persistence among young people;
- Describe the strategies and characteristics of smoking cessation, at the individual and population level;
- Describe the tobacco industry's opposition strategies and provide tools for analyzing and responding to industry actions;
- Present the most sucessful interventions and their implementation in the Region of the Americas;
- Integrate knowledge about challenges and trends related to comprehensive tobacco control.
- Explain the concept of second-hand smoke;
- Describe the available scientific evidence on the harmful health effects of second-hand smoke;
- Define the characteristics and advantages of 100% smoke-free environments;
- Learn to recognize the tobacco industry's efforts to halt initiatives that seek to creat 100% smoke-free environments;
- Share ideas in order to neutralize the strategies of the tobacco industry;
- Explore new ways of devising initiatives to create 100% smoke-free environments;
- Analyze problematic situations;
- Discuss new trends in protection from exposure to second-hand smoke.