title: Injury prevention and safety promotion course in a Russian Master of Public Health programme.
abstract: The Global Burden of Disease Studies describe and emphasise injury as a major and increasing component in the panorama of global ill health. Russia has the one of the highest injury rates in Europe. When a Master in Public Health programme was planned and started in 2007 in Arkhangelsk, Russia, under the auspices of University of Tromsø, Norway, a course on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion was included. A take-over programme (training-the-trainers) was implemented within the course. The present paper describes the course content, the students and their background, the training-the-trainers programme, the evaluation procedure and its results. So far, 53 students have passed the course, 77% being female. The majority of students were medical doctors (51%), psychologists (11%), pedagogues (9%), dentists (6%) and nurses (6%). The take-over programme has functioned well by gradually using students of excellence as teachers. In 2012, the take-over programme is completed and only Russians teach. Evaluation by students of the course content, organisation and pedagogic approach was useful for improvements.
authors: Institute of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø, Norway.
authors: Alexander V
authors: AV
authors: Kudryavtsev
authors: Odd
authors: O
authors: Nilssen
authors: Yury
authors: Y
authors: Sumarokov
authors: Børge
authors: B
authors: Ytterstad
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004500:Education, Graduate; D040381:Education, Public Health Professional; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012426:Russia; D012449:Safety; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000517:prevention & control*