Just In Time in Low Resource Settings
CUAMMAbout This TRAINING
This course consists of the curriculum for a disaster preparedness training course for healthcare professionals (HCPs) in low resource settings. Every health care worker should be equipped to proficiently and safely work in a variety of facilities during disasters. Dedicating more resources to preparedness will reduce health risks, especially for vulnerable communities.
Learning Objectives
- Provide healthcare workers with a common background of knowledge and information about disaster-specific information.
- Provide adequate competencies to work safely inside any healthcare facility during disasters.
- Understand the working principles and standard operating procedures in place at the workplace.
- Understand basic principles of disaster medicine and public health emergencies.
Training Curriculum
Mod. 1: Introduction to public health emergencies and disasters
To understand definitions and characteristics of public health emergencies and disasters, and the Disaster Cycle.
Basic principles of disaster management The Disaster CycleAuthors: Luca Ragazzoni, Hamdi Lamine
Mod. 2: Vulnerability and response at primary care level
To understand different dimensions of vulnerability and concepts of adaptability and resilience.
Vulnerability (3 lessons) Gender and disasters Mental Health and DisastersAuthors: Alessandro Lamberti-Castronuovo, Monica Trentin, Martina Valente
Mod. 3: Basic principles of pre-hospital disaster response
To understand general principles of disaster response at the pre-hospital level and triage during MCI and the START protocol.
Pre-hospital disaster managementAuthor: Michelangelo Bortolin
Mod. 4: Basic principles of hospital response
Hospital surge capacity (staff, stuff, structure), activation protocols, IPC, and management of scarce resources.
Hospital disaster response IPCAuthors: Emanuela De Vivo, Emanuela Parotto, Massimo La Raja
Mod. 5: Community Emergencies Preparedness and Response
General principles of Community, Pre-hospital, and Hospital Preparedness.
Community Preparedness and ResponseAuthor: Edoardo Occa
Mod. 6: Experience from the field
Lessons learnt from the 2015 Ebola Outbreak (Uganda), 2019 Idai Cyclone (Mozambique), and 2012 Cholera Outbreak (Angola).
Field experience lessonsAuthors: Andrea Atzori, Peter Lochoro, Fabio Capello, Paola Gaddi
Doctors with Africa CUAMM
Founded in 1950, Doctors with Africa CUAMM was the first NGO working in the international health field to be recognized in Italy and is the largest Italian organization for the promotion and protection of health in Africa. It implements long-term projects with a development approach, taking action in emergency situations as well to ensure that quality service is accessible to everyone. Doctors with Africa CUAMM is currently active in 9 sub-Saharan African countries (Angola, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Central African Republic, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Côte d'Ivoire) with about 3,000 European and African health workers, supporting 23 hospitals, 64 health districts (for public health activities, maternal and child care, the fight against AIDS, and tuberculosis).
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