WHO | TEACH-VIP

TEACH-VIP

Training, Educating, and Advancing Collaboration in Health on Violence and Injury Prevention

Introduction

TEACH-VIP is a comprehensive injury prevention and control curriculum which has been developed through the efforts of WHO and a network of global injury prevention experts. The course material is designed around a classroom instruction model, with PowerPoint slide presentations and supporting lecture notes which address a wide variety of topics relevant to injury prevention and control. In September 2004 the material went into a pilot testing phase involving 23 settings worldwide and a wide variety of training audiences. From September 2005 WHO will make the training material generally available for settings wishing to provide instruction in the area of injury prevention. The training materials and a variety of other capacity building resources will be made available in CD-ROM format. The actual training materials are structured around 60 lessons, each lesson taking approximately one hour of classroom time to teach.

Goal

In response to numerous requests from Member States and professional groups for education in injury prevention and control, WHO’s Department of Injuries and Violence Prevention, in collaboration with some of the world's best experts in the field, developed a modular curriculum for the teaching of core and advanced public health competencies in the area of injury prevention and control. The main goal of TEACH-VIP is to train students, professionals and practitioners in the field of public health to better apply key injury prevention and control principles, to contribute to the development of preventive programs and policies, design effective surveillance systems, evaluate intervention programs and policies, and collect and assess injury data.

Target audience

While the curriculum has been developed with a primary training audience of public health students in mind, it is also expected that this curriculum can be used for allied medical and nursing students, injury prevention and response practitioners, health professionals, staff within government agencies and other relevant and interested parties. It is anticipated that those making use of the materials will select the lessons most appropriate to the needs of their training audience, and that the materials will be translated and adapted to a wide variety of contexts as necessary.

Curriculum overview

The curriculum consists of 21 "core" lessons and 39 "advanced" lessons, of one hour classroom time each. The core lessons consist of a broad overview of the fundamentals of injury prevention. The advanced lessons are organized into 13 modules; each module containing 3 lessons. The advanced lessons cover the topics of the core module in greater detail, with more emphasis on the lessons that cover specialized context areas in injury prevention and control. This modular structure has proven to be effective in communicating complex health related topics.

The course objectives are defined as follows:

To identify the basic principles of injury prevention, control and safety promotion
To differentiate basic methods to study injury problems in the community
To diagnose problems from a multidisciplinary perspective
To design, implement and evaluate injury prevention and safety promotion interventions
To identify and compare effective injury prevention and control interventions (products, programs, policies)
To identify relevant sources of information (scientific literature, guidelines and recommendations, summaries of research, web sites) and critically appraise them
To advocate for injury prevention in communities
To practice injury prevention control and safety promotion based on universally accepted ethical principles

Overview of core course content

The core curriculum contains of 21 lessons, organized into eight sections. Each lesson takes approximately 1 hour classroom time to teach. The core lessons consist of a broad overview of the fundamentals of injury prevention and are described in the table below.

Description of lessons in the core curriculum

Core curriculum
Section	Lesson	Lesson topics
I. Foundation and fundamentals of injury prevention, control and safety promotion	1	Injury prevention: General principles
	2	Measurement of injuries
II. Injury information systems (surveillance and surveys)	3	Introduction to injury surveillance I
	4	Introduction to injury surveillance II
	5	Introduction to community survey methods
III. Methods for studying injury prevention, control and safety promotion	6	Studying injuries: Research methods I
	7	Studying injuries: Research methods II
IV. Ethical issues in injury prevention, control and safety promotion	8	Ethical issues in the injury field
V. Applications of injury prevention, control and safety promotion	9	Road traffic injuries
	10	Other injuries: falls, burns, drowning, poisoning, and animal-related injuries
	11	Introduction to intentional injuries
	12	Child and elder abuse and neglect
	13	Gender-based violence I
	14	Gender-based violence II
	15	Youth violence and collective violence
	16	Self-inflicted injuries
	17	Injuries in the workplace
VI. Injury care and rehabilitation	18	Application of care and rehabilitation strategies to injuries
VII. Inter-disciplinary approach to injury prevention	19	The multidisciplinary nature of injuries: the role of education, law, economics, and other disciplines
VIII. Policy development and advocacy	20	Injury prevention: Policy development and advocacy
Optional: Internet resources on injuries	21	Internet resources on injuries

Overview of advanced course content

The advanced course covers the topics of the core course in greater detail, with more emphasis on the lessons that cover specialized context areas in injury prevention and control. The advanced lessons are organized into 13 modules; each module containing 3 lessons, each of which taking approximately one hour classroom time to teach. The advanced lessons are described in the table below.

Description of lessons in the advanced curriculum

Advanced curriculum
Module	Lesson	Lesson topics
I. Injury prevention: General principles and methods	1	Injury prevention: general principles
	2	Injury research methods: Data collection
	3	Injury research methods: Study design
II. Injury information systems	4	Injury coding and classification
	5	Trauma scoring and injury surveillance
	6	Communicating injury surveillance information for public health action
III. Road traffic injuries	7	Determinants and risk factors
	8	Planning and implementing road traffic injury interventions
	9	Putting knowledge into practice
IV. Injuries due to falls and burns	10	Injuries due to falls
	11	Injuries due to burns
	12	Falls and burns: Program planning
V. Drowning, poisoning, and animal-related injuries	13	Drowning-related injuries
	14	Child poisoning
	15	Animal-related injuries
VI. Child abuse and neglect	16	Child abuse and neglect 1
	17	Child abuse and neglect 2
	18	Child abuse and neglect 3
VII. Elder abuse and neglect	19	Elder abuse as a social phenomenon
	20	Interventions for elder abuse prevention
	21	Prevention, ethics, and policy in elder abuse situations
VIII. Youth violence	22	Youth as victims and victimizers
	23	Exposure to violence in youth
	24	Preventing youth violence; preventing victimization
VIIII. Gender-based violence	25	Gender-based violence: Definitions, patterns and prevalence
	26	Understanding gender-based violence as a public health problem an a human rights violation
	27	The health sector response to gender-based violence
X. Suicide and self harm	28	A stress vulnerability model and the development of the suicidal process
	29	The public health approach: Primary prevention
	30	Suicide prevention in healthcare and psychiatry: Secondary and tertiary prevention
XI. Injury care and rehabilitation	31	Trauma care systems
	32	Pre-hospital care
	33	Facility-based care: Acute care and rehabilitation
XII. Ethical issues in violence and injury prevention	34	Self inflicted injuries, suicide attempts & suicide
	35	Unintentional injuries
	36	Violence
XIII. Policy and advocacy	37	Media advocacy case studies
	38	Case studies in developing networks of pressure
	39	Dealing with powerful opposition

Package of TEACH-VIP materials

From September 2005 the training materials for TEACH-VIP will be available as a package of materials, including a CD-ROM and related publications. Each individual lesson of the TEACH-VIP curriculum is supplemented by a series of institutional instructor and class materials, including the following three components:

A PowerPoint presentation for the training audience providing visual reinforcement
A Microsoft-Word document for students providing core competencies and objectives for each lesson, slide materials, required and suggested readings and references, and sample questions.
A Microsoft-Word document for instructors providing additional material: slide notes for each teaching slide and full references, including an annex to each lesson with full text abstracts, and responses to sample questions.

The package of materials will contain a brochure about TEACH-VIP, the TEACH-VIP curriculum, a manual for users, and additional capacity building resources.

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