Available courses

Antimicrobial Resistance Course (Italian)





L'uso irrazionale degli antibiotici e le cattive pratiche di controllo delle infezioni sono tra i principali fattori che contribuiscono alla resistenza agli antibiotici in tutto il mondo. La resistenza antimicrobica (AMR) è un problema mondiale, poiché nuove forme di microrganismi resistenti possono attraversare i confini e diffondersi facilmente tra i continenti.

A livello nazionale e internazionale, la resistenza antimicrobica aggiunge costi considerevoli ed evitabili ai sistemi sanitari già sovraccarichi e, cosa più importante, riduce significativamente le possibilità di trattare anche le più piccole infezioni, impedisce interventi chirurgici sicuri e influisce sulla qualità della vita dei pazienti.

L'uso irrazionale di antibiotici non è solo correlato alla prescrizione errata di antibiotici da parte dei medici. Anche i fattori correlati al paziente svolgono un ruolo importante, come l'automedicazione e le pressioni sui fornitori affinché prescrivano antibiotici quando non indicato dal punto di vista medico.

Patient Safety : Understanding the Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021-2030



Patient Safety is a health care discipline that aims to prevent and reduce risks, errors, and harm that occur to patients during the provision of health care. Today, patient harm due to unsafe care is a large and growing global public health concern and is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide. Most of this patient harm is avoidable. The Global Patient Safety Action Plan strives to eliminate avoidable harm in health care with the goal to achieve the maximum possible reduction in unavoidable harm due to unsafe health care globally. There is a capacity gap among patients, healthcare providers, and other stakeholders in understanding and delivering safe healthcare. The aim of this course is to build capacities around the recently launched WHO Global Patient Safety Action plan 2021 – 2030 by providing an overview of each of the strategic pillars and thematic areas and providing ideas on how patients can engage in these processes at local and national levels. Based on self-paced learning, the course is meant for patients, patient advocates and patient led organisations.
STROKE: Building Capacities and Beyond
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Stroke is one of the leading causes of death. With improvements in health care, more people survive stroke but many have to cope with the physical, psychological, social and functional sequelae, resulting in increased personal and public costs. Cerebral stroke causes a significant deterioration of the patient's functioning and worsening of her/his quality of life. There is a capacity gap in stroke patient groups and most functional ones are physician led. Empowering patients and using expert patient knowledge and experience in prevention, care and rehabilitation of stroke survivors is key to improvement of quality of their life. This course offers a self-paced capacity building with online modules on different topics not restricted to stroke diagnosis, management and care. It covers topics on organizational management, advocacy, proposal writing, fundraising and communication.
Antimicrobial Resistance Course 
 AMR Course Description
The irrational use of antibiotics and poor infection control practices are among the leading factors contributing to antibiotic resistance around the world. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a worldwide problem, as new forms of resistant microorganisms can cross the borders and easily spread between continents.
At the national and international level, AMR adds considerable and avoidable cost to already overburdened health systems, and more importantly – significantly reduces the possibilities for treating even smallest of infections, prevents safe surgeries and affects quality of life for patients.
Irrational use of antibiotics is not only related to incorrect prescribing of antibiotics by doctors. Patient related factors also play an important role, such as self-medication and pressuring providers to prescribe antibiotics when not medically indicated.
This course is intended to empower patients and caregivers in appropriate use of antibiotics, so that we all put efforts in preserving their effectiveness, for as long as possible – for as many patients as possible.