Humanitarian Assistance and its Medical and Health Care Aspects

Data

Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2024-2025

Topic

The course introduces the issues concerning humanitarian assistance and the inevitable social and health consequences of such intervention. It examines humanitarian assistance in the framework of international relations, discovers its health, public health, legal and economic aspects and investigates the wider context of international cooperation in development. The course offers an opportunity to understand the practical implementation of humanitarian assistance as well. The current trends and scenes of humanitarian assistance are illustrated by short case-studies in every particular topic.

Lectures

• 1. Tasks related to health care in mass migration: criteria for setting up camps, organisation of care in camps, temporary reception centres, special aspects, etc. - Katz Zoltán
• 2. Tasks related to health care in mass migration: criteria for setting up camps, organisation of care in camps, temporary reception centres, special aspects, etc. - Katz Zoltán
• 3. Healthcare provision in host/transit countries in case of mass migration (examples), e.g. in Hungarian reception centres, along the Italian coasts and in Syrian refugee camps in Jordan. - Marek Erika Mária
• 4. Healthcare provision in host/transit countries in case of mass migration (examples), e.g. in Hungarian reception centres, along the Italian coasts and in Syrian refugee camps in Jordan. - Marek Erika Mária
• 5.

  Humanitarian Assistance and International Cooperation.

  - Szilágyi Béla
• 6.

  Humanitarian Assistance and International Cooperation.

  - Szilágyi Béla
• 7.

  Refugees vs. IDPs. Baptist Respond24.

  - Szilágyi Béla
• 8.

  Refugees vs. IDPs. Baptist Respond24.

  - Szilágyi Béla
• 9.

  The participants of humanitarian assistance. Bi- and multilateral donors, civil organizations /NGOs in humanitarian assistance.

  - Szilágyi Béla
• 10.

  The participants of humanitarian assistance. Bi- and multilateral donors, civil organizations /NGOs in humanitarian assistance.

  - Szilágyi Béla
• 11.

  Mental health consequences of migration and forced migration, and the rehabilitation of victims of trafficking (VoT). The role of Cordelia Foundation.

  - Hárdi Lilla
• 12.

  Mental health consequences of migration and forced migration, and the rehabilitation of victims of trafficking (VoT). The role of Cordelia Foundation.

  - Hárdi Lilla
• 13.

  Medical aspects and tasks of humanitarian crises.

  - Szilárd István
• 14.

  Medical aspects and tasks of humanitarian crises.

  - Szilárd István
• 15. Humanitarian tasks among ethnic minorities from healthcare perspectives: experiences of a medical mission in gypsy settlements. - Marek Erika Mária
• 16. Humanitarian tasks among ethnic minorities from healthcare perspectives: experiences of a medical mission in gypsy settlements. - Marek Erika Mária
• 17.

  Healthcare challenges in humanitarian crises. The practice of humanitarian assistance. Case study: Haiti

  - Szilágyi Béla
• 18.

  Healthcare challenges in humanitarian crises. The practice of humanitarian assistance. Case study: Haiti

  - Szilágyi Béla
• 19.

  Humanitarian aspects of trafficking in human beings (THB). Counter-Trafficking: the fight against THB: the role of HBaid.

  - Szilágyi Béla
• 20.

  Humanitarian aspects of trafficking in human beings (THB). Counter-Trafficking: the fight against THB: the role of HBaid.

  - Szilágyi Béla
• 21.

  Experiences of HBAid in humanitarian/social crises.

  - Szilágyi Béla
• 22.

  Experiences of HBAid in humanitarian/social crises.

  - Szilágyi Béla
• 23. Assessment, written test exam. - Marek Erika Mária
• 24. Assessment, written test exam. - Marek Erika Mária

Practices

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

Literature developed by the Department

Smillie, Ian, Minear, Larry: The Charity of Nations. Humanitarian Action in a Calculating World, Kumarian Press, Bloomfield 2004

Cahill, Kevin M. (ed.): Human Security for All. A Tribute to Sergio Vieira de Mello, Fordham University Press and The Center for International Health and Cooperation, New York

Walker, Peter, Maxwell, Daniel: Shaping the Humanitarian World, Routledge, London 2009

Szilárd, I. - Baráth, Á. et al: The Mental Health Aspect of Trafficking in Human Beings. Training Manual, Budapest, 2004 IOM

Notes

Recommended literature

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

Active participation at lectures (85% at least), and successful completition of the final written test.

Mid-term exams

Written test

Making up for missed classes

Based on independent consultation.

Exam topics/questions

The exam will be based on the recommended readings and the lectures.

Examiners

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars