European Educational Programmes in Health Emergency and Disaster Management: An Integrative Review

Autor: Juana Perpiñá-Galvañ, Salvador Mollá-Pérez, Rocío Juliá-Sanchis, Angela Sanjuan-Quiles, Érika Olmos-Castelló
Přispěvatelé: Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Enfermería, Calidad de Vida, Bienestar Psicológico y Salud, Person-centred Care and Health Outcomes Innovation / Atención centrada en la persona e innovación en resultados de salud (PCC-HOI), Salud Pública
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: RUA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Alicante
Universidad de Alicante (UA)
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 18, Iss 11455, p 11455 (2021)
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
ISSN: 1660-4601
Popis: There is a need for trained health professionals who can swiftly respond to disasters occurring worldwide. Little is known about whether the currently available programmes in disaster management are in line with the recommendations of expert researchers. Our objective was to qualitatively review the characteristics of European educational programmes in health emergency and disaster management and to provide guidance to help improve their curricula. We carried out an integrative review to extract the main characteristics of the 2020/21 programmes available. We identified 34 programmes, the majority located in Spain, the UK or France. The primary qualification types awarded were master’s degrees, half of them lasting one year, and the most common teaching method was in person. Almost all of the programmes used a virtual university classroom, a third offered multidisciplinary disaster management content and teachers, and half of them employed situational simulations. The quality of European educational programmes in health emergency and disaster management has improved, especially in terms of using more practical and interactive teaching methodologies and in the inclusion of relevant topics such as communication, psychological approaches and evaluation of the interventions. However, generally, the educational programmes in disaster management have not yet incorporated the skills related to the intercultural and interprofessional awareness aspects.
Databáze: OpenAIRE