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Health Staff Ready to Work without Borders
Author(s)
Franco Locatelli, Sabina Tangerini, Mattia Viano, Chiara Schiavo, Lisa Di Mascolo, Alessia Montanari, Laura Palmucci and Marilena Bertini
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DOI:10.17265/2328-7136/2018.05.002
Affiliation(s)
Comitato Collaborazione Medica, International NGO Turin 10152, Italy
ABSTRACT
Introducing courses on
global health in Italian University curricula is essential to improve public
health in Italy and to raise awareness in health professionals about global
health challenges and inequalities. CCM (Comitato Collaborazione Medica) has developed a
structured strategy to provide medical and nursing students and health
professionals eager to work/volunteer in low- and middle-income countries with
the necessary skills and knowledge to carry out sustainable health-care
interventions, that require not only clinical expertise, but also foremost the
understanding of local contexts and approaches to care. The comprehensive
understanding of the variety of health-care systems at a global level can also
help Western health professionals to properly address global migration
challenges and the continuously evolving health needs in their own countries. Since 2004, CCM has
been organizing training courses for a wide range of Italian health staff (e.g. physicians,
nurses, midwives, laboratory technicians, psychologists, social workers) to
transfer knowledge, skills and tools that may help them to address health needs
in a globalized world. These courses aim to provide participants with soft
skills meant at improving the doctor-patient relationship in a variety of
contexts and to address health needs holistically; an additional goal is to
raise awareness of global health inequities and inequalities and the determinants
of health.
KEYWORDS
Global health, cultural competence, health staff.
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