Public Health Risk Management
Description
Public health is impacted via a wide spectrum of hazards ranging from physical, chemical and biological factors. When they interact with people and health system vulnerability factors, people’s health and lives become at risks. To minimize those risks, robust risk reduction measures need to be taken. However, risk reduction cannot be achieved without understanding the causes and influencing factors. Hence, risk assessment, including risk determinants is crucial for any risk management plans and projects.
Hence, this unit is needed to provide a field-oriented, locally-adapted, simplified, training that presents suitable tools and techniques to conduct risk assessment and risk management plans through assessing public health risks.
Learning Outcomes
- Discuss the common public health risks in the region
- Understand the process and approaches of hazard, vulnerability and capacity assessment
- Apply GIS and other IT tools in risk assessment and management
- Demonstrate the development of risk reduction plans
- Discuss the cost of risk management options
- Introduction to risk assessment
- Semi-quantitative risk assessment
- Disaster risk management frameworks
- Risk management
- Economics of risk management
- Information management in disasters
- Disaster management plan
- Assessment of hospital safety
Course Features
Certificate
The participant will be awarded a certificate of successful completion upon completing the course.