Courses

Health and healthcare are both especially strained in the world’s lowest-income communities. In the face of ever-tightening resources, wise leadership is crucial. Yet few healthcare professionals are well equipped to be leaders. This course describes well-founded health strategies, draws from the experience of major global health initiatives, and outlines the leadership cycle essential to applying […]

Progress in health requires skilled personnel who can apply the appropriate knowledge and resources on behalf of people in need. But intentional transfer of such skill from one healthcare professional to another is frequently inadequate. This Health Profession Education content will equip learners with concepts and methods of effective learning and teaching to improve their ability to

A plethora of diseases are associated with poverty. The term tropical diseases is sometimes used in this context. However, because such diseases may not necessarily be confined to tropical latitudes, a more useful term is diseases of poverty. Where functioning economies, education, and health care systems are in motion, the prevalence of such diseases diminishes—regardless of geographic latitude.

International public health is the field devoted to the health improvement of all people – especially those who live on society’s margins. This INMED course is built around the Human Development Index, and emphasizes how health is improved through promotion of literacy and general education, economic development and civil stability, reduction of leading health risk factors,

Natural disasters, workplace violence, terrorism, war, technological failure, and/or economic depression are all among today’s disaster threats. Annually, disasters are the cause for substantial loss of life, quality of life, assets, and productivity. In the last 20 years over 4.4 billion people have been affected by a disaster event(s) and over 1.3 million killed world-wide.

This brief course is an opportunity to test-drive the features that characterize all INMED Short Self-Paced and Academic Credit Courses. It focuses on international public health and makes use of interactive questions, short videos, pre-test, and post-test. The INMED Free Demo Short Self-Paced Course experience requires about 15 minutes. Proceed through the content in chronological order,