War and Health: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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Introduction

Course Registration

Pre-Test

Discussion Forum

Medical Peace Work Glossary

Module 1: Health Workers, Conflict, and Peace

Module 1: Lesson 1: Health Workers, Conflict, and Peace

MPW Course 1: Health workers, conflict and peace

World report on violence and health

Peace building through health initiatives

World report on violence and health

World report on violence and health

Public health and complex emergencies: New issues, new conditions

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Preparing health professions students for terrorism, disaster, and public health emergencies: Core competencies

Natural Disasters, Armed Conflict, and Public Health

Module 2: Medicine, Health and Human Rights

Module 2: Lesson 1: Medicine, Health and Human Rights

The Right to Health: Fact Sheet No. 31

MPW course 2: Medicine, health and human rights

Health and Human Rights (in the Health and Human Rights Journal - Volume 1 Issue 1)

Essential medicines and human rights: What can they learn from each other?

Ukraine crisis Public Health Situation Analysis – Refugee-hosting countries 17 March 2022

Russia's War in Ukraine- The Devastation of Health and Human Rights

Quiz: Module 2: Lesson 1

Module 3: War, Weapons and Conflict Strategies

Module 3: Lesson 1: Weapons and Health

MPW Course 3: War, weapons and conflict strategies

Effect of type and transfer of conventional weapons on civilian injuries: Retrospective analysis of prospective data from Red Cross hospitals

Civil War Veterans and Opiate Addiction

Impact of war on the dynamics of Covid-19 in Ukraine

Mortality in Iraq Associated with the 2003–2011 War and Occupation: Findings from a National Cluster Sample Survey by the University Collaborative Iraq Mortality Study

Quiz: Module 3: Lesson 1

How has the war impacted Ukraine's environment

Module 3: Lesson 2: Biological and Chemical Weapons

Public health response to biological and chemical weapons: WHO guidance

Quiz: Module 3: Lesson 2

Module 3: Lesson 3: Landmines

Direct and indirect consequences of landmines on public health

Quiz: Module 3: Lesson 3

Module 3: Lesson 4: Firearms

Small arms and global health

Quiz: Module 3: Lesson 4

Module 4: Nuclear Weapons and War

Module 4: Lesson 1: Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear Weapons 60 Years On: Still a Global Public Health Threat

Reducing and eliminating nuclear weapons: Country perspectives on the challenges to nuclear disarmament

Nuclear famine: Two Billion People at Risk

Nuclear weapons illegality: The public health case

Quiz: Module 4: Lesson 1

Global zero - Get the Facts

The U.S. and nuclear terrorism: Still dangerously unprepared

Treaty between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on measures for the further reduction and limitation of strategic offensive arms

Nuclear Famine: Climate and Health Effects of Regional Nuclear War

Module 4: Lesson 2: Nuclear Power and Health

Childhood leukemia and cancers near German nuclear reactors: Significance, context, and ramifications of recent studies

Quiz: Module 4: Lesson 2

Nuclear tipping point - Watch

Unfurling the nuclear mystery after Fukushima

Module 5: Structural Violence and the Underlying Causes of Violent Conflict

Module 5: Lesson 1: Structural Violence and the Underlying Causes of Violent Conflict

MPW Course 4: Structural violence and the underlying causes of violent conflict

Structural violence and clinical medicine

Organised violence as a never- ending story? Reflections in light of the Russian aggression against Ukraine

Quiz: Module 5: Lesson 1

Implication of the Russia - Ukraine war for global food security

Module 6: Peace through Health in Violent Conflict

Module 6: Lesson 1: Peace through Health in Violent Conflict

MPW Course 5: Peace through health in violent conflict

Peace Through Health and Its Potential as a Transformative Lens (in The Meducator is McMaster University's undergraduate Health Sciences Journal)

Quiz: Module 6: Lesson 1

Neighbors and Enemies: Lessons to Be Learned from the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict Regarding Cooperation in Public Health

Module 7: Refugee and Migration Challenges

Module 7: Lesson 1: Refugee and Migration Challenges

MPW Course 6: Refugee and migration challenges

Healthcare challenges from the developing world: Post-immigration refugee medicine

Mental Health, Alcohol and Substance Use of Refugee Youth

Activity: Discussion Forum 1 (155 minutes)

Quiz: Module 7: Lesson 1

Common mental health problems in immigrants and refugees: general approach in primary care