Alumni Summer School 2014
Health Promotion for Populations in the Periphery
September 14-19, 2014 - Heidelberg
In cooperation with the Institute of Public Health of the Medical Faculty of Heidelberg University
Retrospection
All participants can access materials of the seminar in the online group "Summer School 2014" in HAInet. Moreover you can browse through the picture galleries and enjoy the highlights of the week.
Content
The goal of the seminar is to discuss the responsibility for matters of health of underprivileged populations. The alumni will report on their experiences and discuss how existing strategies can be improved and possibly more effective approaches developed.
Question
Which measurements and strategies can improve the insufficient healthcare for underprivileged populations in developing countries as well as in industrial nations?
Topics
- Health for the rich and health for the poor
- Agendas of donors and politicians
- Agendas of researchers
- Agendas of the targeted recipients of support
- Expectation loads on alumni
- Culture shocks and professional performance
- Professional life in the periphery
- Retention of health workers in the periphery
- Strategies and projects that made a change in the poor periphery
Participants
This Summer School is especially interesting for alumni of the Institute of Public Health. Alumni are evidently interested and working in the mentioned fields of activity and have various related experiences. All alumni will be speakers and participants and thus teacher and learners during the workshop at the same time.
Application
The application deadline already expired. In case you have any questions please send an e-mail to: service@alumni.uni-heidelberg.de.
24 May 2018