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After completing this learning course, you should have:

• Knowledge about the initial health assessment as well as flight specific health needs, red flags, infectious diseases and vaccination (Module 2)
• Knowledge about your legal situation, the legal situation of the asylum seeker regarding primary health care as well as knowledge about the video-interpreter project (Module 3)
• Overview about skills and tools for patient-provider interaction in this specific setting: communication aspects, idioms of distress, cultural aspects of diseases, death and dying (Module 4)
• Knowledge about mental health aspects in refugee care including psychological issues for the refugee as well as skills for dealing with traumatized individuals and for avoiding burn-out yourself (Module 5)
• Knowledge about special concerns regarding refugees and children’s health, and sexual as well as reproductive health (Module 6 and 7)
• Overview about strategies to support patients with chronic diseases and to support the health literacy of your patients that are asylum seekers (Module 8)

The online course consists of eight modules, each with several chapters as outlined below.

To access the training click HERE

• Mental Health of refugees and other migrants– course language: Greek
• Provider patient interaction. Providing cultural appropriate healthcare services-course language: Greek
• Vaccination coverage of refugees and other migrants– course language: Greek
• Non-communicable diseases on refugees and other migrants– course language: Greek
• Maternal and reproductive health-course language: Greek
• Communicable diseases on refugees and other migrants– course language: Greek
• Assessing refugees and other migrants with immediate healthcare needs. Triage upon their arrival– course language: Greek

Instructions to access training:

• Please go to THIS link
• Complete all the necessary fields
• Insert EURHM16GR at the field ‘Group code’
• Press send
• After that you will receive more information on the next steps

The training lecture videos are available online on the project’s YouTube channel HERE

PPT versions

Module 1. About the course – http://eur-human.uoc.gr/module-1/#

Module 2. Health monitoring, acute and infectious diseases and vaccination – http://eur-human.uoc.gr/module-2/

Module 3. Legal aspects regarding PHC for refugees and other migrants – http://eur-human.uoc.gr/module-3/

Module 4. Provider – patient interaction (communication and the relevance of culture in medical practice) – http://eur-human.uoc.gr/module-4-2/

Module 5. Mental health and psychological support – http://eur-human.uoc.gr/module-5/

Module 6. Sexual and reproductive health – http://eur-human.uoc.gr/module-6/

Module 7. Child health – http://eur-human.uoc.gr/module-7/

Module 8. Chronic diseases, health promotion and prevention – http://eur-human.uoc.gr/module-8/

These videos cover seven different topics (this is the link  for full access  in the Greek expert material HERE

This product is part of the project ‘717319 / EUR-HUMAN’ which has received funding from the European Union’s Health Programme (2014-2020).

The content of this website represents the views of the author only and is his/her responsibility; it can not be considered to reflect the views of the European Commission and/or the Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency or any other body of the European Union. The European Commission and the Agency do not accept any responsibility for the use that may be made of the information it contains.

Professor Christos Lionis, MD, PhD, FRCGP(Hon), FWONCA, FESC

Professor, Family of General Practice and Primary Health Care

Link to Short Bio