1. Improve individual clinicians proficiency in the diagnosis and management of MH problems;
2. Strengthen cooperation and collaboration by: a. developing a common language by using a common clinical tool- the mhGAP-IG; b. exploring models of ongoing and future knowledge exchange and interactions about clinical realities.
3. Compare and confront different perspectives and different models of healthcare organization;
4. Help with clinical practices to better enable the integration of MH interventions.
Upon finishing the course, participants should be able to:
- Design risk communication strategies using a risk map to analyze the local context and systematically incorporating lessons learned.
- Understand the importance of risk perceptions and other relevant risk communication concepts and incorporate these in the design of effective strategies and in adjustments according to the local context.
- Identify monitoring and evaluation activities appropriate for the interventions and communication processes in the risk communication strategy.
- Understand the important steps for communicating effectively with the internal and external target audiences, including partners, stakeholders, the media, online social networks, health personnel and the public.
- Identify the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of influenza, focusing on influenza A(H1N1);
- Recognize and implement critical aspects of health services preparedness;
- Identify priority actions for preventing transmission and caring for cases of pandemic influenza;
- Know the different protective measures for health care workers and the public;
- Analyze information on the behavior and management of the epidemic;
- Provide a source of recent news and developments on the epidemics behavior.
- Ensure smooth introduction of the rotavirus vaccine;
- Assist with planning for program sustainability;
- Promote further strengthening of existing immunization programs.
- 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.