COURSES

ON-LINE COURSE “Global Health and Equity in Health”

“Since the primary determinants of disease are mainly political and social, the remedies must also be political and social. Medicine and politics cannot and should not be kept separate.”
Geoffrey Rose

On invitation of Geoffrey Rose, one of the most important contemporary epidemiologists, we decided to organise this course, which aims to provide participants with knowledge on and an analysis of “global health”, or a more comprehensive health “without borders and barriers.”

The course, lasting about nine hours, is intended primarily for students of the faculty of medicine and surgery (future doctors, nurses, etc.) and other faculties dealing with health and right to health in various capacities and from different perspectives (law, political science, economics, sociology, etc.).

The course is open to all those who intend to explore the themes of global health in a rapidly changing world for study, work, cultural or political reasons and belong to non-governmental and volunteer organisations.
This course has been produced by the Department of Public Health of the University of Florence, as part of the “Equal opportunities for health: action for development”, conducted by Doctors with Africa Cuamm, with the support of the European Union. It was later expanded (modules 5, 6 and 7) with the contribution of the Tuscany Region, as part of the Regional Initiative Project (RIP).

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Teaching Elective – Unequal Medicine, how to act for the health of all

The project “Unequal medicine, how to act for the health of all” was born in 2013 from the collaboration between teachers, specialist doctors and medical students of the University of Florence. It is presented as elapsed ADE in the second half of 2014-2015.

The trainers of the course include both teachers and doctors and students in medicine and nursing, to meet the demand for greater horizontal alignment in training. The students, who will follow the course participants as facilitators at par, are preparing through a self-training group.

The project aims to understand health and its complexity by offering basic knowledge on social determinants of health and necessary tools in a critical environment and is aware of the current medical system.

The idea of the project stems from the idea that the study of biomedicine is not enough for an effective intervention in the health of people in today’s society. Therefore, there is a need to integrate the training process of the students and professionals with knowledge of the current complex underlying reality that is often neglected in the concept of health, the historical development of the biomedical system, the production of inequality, the multidisciplinary nature of the medical training and the relationship between medicine and society.

The course is open to all students enrolled at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery. In order to promote the interactivity of the ADE group, it will be open to a minimum number of 5 and a maximum of 25 students. The project extends from March to May, for a total of twenty hours divided into six afternoon sessions on Friday.

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