- Describe key steps in developing a local preparedness and response plan.

Describe principles of effective communication during a pandemic.

Identify additional resources to support local preparedness and response efforts.

Through this course, the Gender, Ethnicity and Health Office of PAHO/WHO seeks to promote an analysis of the health situation and access to services with proper attention given to differences in health indicators that reveal unfavorable circumstances faced by indigenous people, Afro-descendants, Romani people and migrants. Adopting an ethnic approach will create opportunities to redesign health program, plans and policies, with the aim to overcome unjust social conditions that affect those people within a framework that promote: social equity, social participation and respect for human rights.

This module you will learn how to:
understand ethnicity as a social health determinant; identify the mechanisms of exclusion; identify and locate indigenous people afro-descendants, Romani people, migrants on the American continent; identify poverty and health disparities affecting these populations in the region.

This module you will learn how to:
identify the tools to be considered when making a health analysis with an ethnic approach; distinguish the basic methodological tools use to carry out an appropriate health analysis with an ethnic approach; value the importance of the health analysis with an ethnic approach in health.

- 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 industry’s 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.