Disaster Management Essentials
Disaster Management Essentials
As both natural disasters and terror events become more frequent around the world, it’s vital health practitioners, service managers and leaders are prepared to respond quickly and decisively. This micro-credential explores the essential principles of disaster management, with a focus on prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery. It’s ideal for health…
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
As both natural disasters and terror events become more frequent around the world, it’s vital health practitioners, service managers and leaders are prepared to respond quickly and decisively. This micro-credential explores the essential principles of disaster management, with a focus on prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery. It’s ideal for health professionals and those in government or management roles seeking the skills to effectively evaluate disaster management plans and more rigorously prepare for disaster events. Explore key principles and terminology of disaster management: Gain a detailed understanding of the principles of disaster management, as well as key terminology, and different types of disasters and the hazards associated with them. Understand disaster command and control: Explore the concepts of disaster command and control, and the structures and systems underpinning a disaster response. Understand how risk rating is applied to disaster scenarios. Consider the impact of disasters on communities and workers: Examine the impact disasters have on vulnerable communities and consider the role of healthcare worker resilience. Analyse a real-life disaster response scenario: Put your knowledge into practice by analysing response and recovery in a real case study. Examine materials like Coroner’s reports, government inquiries, peer-reviewed literature and media reports to develop your analysis and provide recommendations to strengthen a future response.
Skills and learning outcomes: By the end of this course, you’ll be more equipped to evaluate disaster management preparedness and organisational responses. You’ll be able to: Recognise and apply disaster management principles of prevention, preparedness, response, recovery considering the different disaster health systems; Analyse the principles that are applied to prevent, manage, contain and diffuse the impact of disasters and apply these to different organisational settings.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
Established in 1853, the University of Melbourne enjoys an outstanding reputation with world rankings, consistently being placed as Australia’s leading comprehensive research-intensive university, and is one of the world’s top 50 (as per Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015 – 2016 and Academic Ranking of World Universities 2015). There are over 80 different undergraduate study areas and over 270 graduate courses at Melbourne for students to choose from. The University has extensive global networks and has seven campus locations across Melbourne and rural Victoria.
