Dia 18 de maio
SARS‐CoV‐2, the virus that causes COVID‐19, is challenging health systems around the world.
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The course covers the following learning outcomes:
- Identify key characteristics of COVID-19 and their effect on vulnerable populations
- Evaluate approaches to strengthening health systems
- Reflect on the impact of public health crises in your context
- Describe the characteristics of effective healthcare interventions
- Discuss the applications of data analytics in decision-making
- Apply ethical frameworks to clinical practice in complex situations
- Reflect on the role of leadership in responding to public health crises
NEW COURSES AND LANGUAGES AVAILABLE
We are pleased to announce three new courses which have recently become available on OpenWHO:
* Flutool Plus - using the WHO Seasonal Influenza Immunisation Costing Tool [2]: The aim of this course is to promote the dissemination and use of Flutool Plus, the WHO tool designed to help lower- and middle-income countries in the process of costing of Seasonal Influenza Immunisation Programs.
* Standard precautions: Hand hygiene [3]: This course has been prepared to help summarize the WHO guidelines on hand hygiene, associated tools and ideas for effective implementation.
* Drug-resistant tuberculosis: how to interpret rapid molecular test results [4]: This training toolkit by the European Laboratory Initiative for TB, HIV and Viral Hepatitis provides a unique combination of practical guidance and expert advice on the interpretation of selected WHO-endorsed tests for drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB).
New certificates available
Participants can now gain a Record of Achievement if they score 80% or higher on the assessments in the following courses:
* ePROTECT Arabic [5], Chinese [6], English [7], French [8], Indonesian [9] and Portuguese [10]. _Russian and Spanish to follow.
* Introduction to COVID-19 and emerging respiratory viruses in Arabic [11], Chinese [12], English [13], French [14], Portuguese [15] and Russian [16]. More languages to follow.
Complete list of COVID-19 learning resources
In summary, OpenWHO currently offers courses covering the following topics and languages to support the response to COVID-19:
* A general introduction to emerging respiratory viruses, including novel coronaviruses (available in Arabic [11], Bengali [17], Chinese [12], English [13], French [14], Russian [16], Spanish [18], Hindi [19], Hungarian [20], Indian Sign Language [21], Indonesian [22], Macedonian [23], Persian [24], Portuguese [15], Serbian [25], Turkish [26], Vietnamese [27] and Urdu [28]);
* Clinical care SARI (available in English [29], French [30], Russian [31], Spanish [32], Indonesian [33], Portuguese [34] and Vietnamese [35]);
* Health and safety briefing for respiratory diseases – ePROTECT (available in Arabic [5], Chinese [6], English [7], French [8], Russian [36], Spanish [37], Indonesian [9] and Portuguese [10]);
* IPC for COVID-19 (available in Chinese [38], English [39], French [40], Russian [41], Spanish [42], Indonesian [43], Italian [44], Japanese [45], Macedonian [46], Polish [47], Portuguese [48], Serbian [49] and Turkish [50]);
* COVID-19 operational planning guidelines and partners platform to support country preparedness and response (available in Arabic [51], Chinese [52], English [53], French [54], Indonesian [55], Russian [56] and Portuguese [57]);
* SARI treatment facility design (available in Arabic [58], English [59], Italian [60], Portuguese [61] and Russian [62]);
* An introduction to Go.Data (available in English [63] and coming soon in additional languages);
* How to put on and remove PPE for COVID-19 (available in English [64] and coming soon in additional languages); and
* Standard precautions for hand hygiene (available in English [3] and coming soon in additional languages).
