11 Apps for Healthcare Services (Course11 -EN)
Apps for Healthcare Services 
This online module is addressed to trainees.
Objectives
This course about apps for healthcare services is a training programme that provides learners with the knowledge and skills they need to use apps offered by public and private organisations. Public providers are, for example, ministries, subordinate authorities and publicly run healthcare institutions such as national, regional or local health departments. Private providers can be facilities that are commercially run, e.g. companies of the health sector, service providers such as the Red Cross in health care for emergency victims or care facilities for elderly people. This course informs about corresponding facilities in Germany, Spain, Greece, Italy, and Cyprus by presenting examples of health services apps from these countries.
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Apps for Healthcare Services
This online module is addressed to trainees.
Objectives
This course about apps for healthcare services is a training programme that provides learners with the knowledge and skills they need to use apps offered by public and private organisations. Public providers are, for example, ministries, subordinate authorities and publicly run healthcare institutions such as national, regional or local health departments. Private providers can be facilities that are commercially run, e.g. companies of the health sector, service providers such as the Red Cross in health care for emergency victims or care facilities for elderly people. This course informs about corresponding facilities in Germany, Spain, Greece, Italy, and Cyprus by presenting examples of health services apps from these countries.
Apps for Healthcare Services
This online module is addressed to trainees.
Objectives
This course about apps for healthcare services is a training programme that provides learners with the knowledge and skills they need to use apps offered by public and private organisations. Public providers are, for example, ministries, subordinate authorities and publicly run healthcare institutions such as national, regional or local health departments. Private providers can be facilities that are commercially run, e.g. companies of the health sector, service providers such as the Red Cross in health care for emergency victims or care facilities for elderly people. This course informs about corresponding facilities in Germany, Spain, Greece, Italy, and Cyprus by presenting examples of health services apps from these countries.
Course Description
Objectives
This course about apps for healthcare services is a training programme that provides learners with the knowledge and skills they need to use apps offered by public and private organisations. Public providers are, for example, ministries, subordinate authorities and publicly run healthcare institutions such as national, regional or local health departments. Private providers can be facilities that are commercially run, e.g. companies of the health sector, service providers such as the Red Cross in health care for emergency victims or care facilities for elderly people. This course informs about corresponding facilities in Germany, Spain, Greece, Italy, and Cyprus by presenting examples of health services apps from these countries. The training programme has the following objectives:
- To increase the knowledge of learners on apps for healthcare services in their country of arrival
- To increase their knowledge on using and benefitting from apps for healthcare services in terms of access and availability
- To understand their main functionalities, advantages, and possible deficits
- To understand the implications of apps provided by public and private sources
- To motivate the learners to get engaged with healthcare services apps
- To increase digital knowledge and language skills of the country concerned.
Through interactive sessions, practical exercises, real-life examples, discussions, and action planning, learners will gain confidence in using healthcare services apps from public and private institutions and come to understand and appreciate them as supporters of their own digital health management.
Participants and roles
- Newcomer Migrants as learners; migrants who want to improve their health management by learning more about available healthcare services in their country of arrival
- Migrants’ Peers; learners or trainers after being trained as trainers. When they will attend as learners, they could play a role of supporting the Newcomer Migrants along the training process, including support in overcoming language barriers.
- Supports; these could be social workers, health professionals of all kinds, volunteers from organisations that support Newcomer Migrants; learners or trainers after being trained as trainers. When they will attend as learners, they could play a role of supporting the Newcomer Migrants along the training process, including support in overcoming language barriers.
Learning outcomes
- Learners will know what a healthcare service is and how it can be beneficial for them.
- Learners will be able to identify the healthcare services in general and which are more relevant for them.
- Learners will be able to identify public and private healthcare services apps and their different backgrounds and intentions.
- Learners will be able to critically evaluate public and private healthcare services apps and their use.
- Learners will set up a plan for using healthcare services apps for themselves, a friend or a relative.
Training Contents
- Introduction to healthcare services and respective apps
- Introduction to main healthcare service areas
- Identification of public and private healthcare apps and their different ambitions
- How public and private healthcare services are working
- How healthcare apps can support the self-management of health
Duration
Total Duration: 5 hours, 30 minutes
- Teaching session: 2 hours (1 break recommended)
- Experiential training session: 2 hours ( 2 breaks recommended)
- Self-learning supported by online training tools: 30 minutes
- Closing session: 1 hour
Resources
- Training materials:
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- for Teaching Session face to face,
- for Self-learning Session,
- two templates to be filled in for the Experiential Training Session and the Closure Session.
- Supporting educational materials: ice-breaker, quizzes (multiple choice, true-false, matching exercise), questions & answers.
- e-Training Platform and App Training Tool.
- Healthcare Services Apps: Examples of Healthcare Services Apps covering different areas and different public and private providers.
- Other: Bibliography with sources for complementary and further readings, videos (“YouTube”) contents.
Bibliography
- The Robert Koch Institute (Berlin) offers a good overview of publications on the topic of "Migration and Health" in German language:
https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/Gesundheitsmonitoring/Themen/Migration/migration_node.html, retrieved 8.11.23
- European Parliament, Directorate General for Internal Policy: Research for CULT–Committee. Why Cultural Work with Refugees (2017). Retrieved 11.23 from: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2017/602004/IPOL_IDA(2017)602004_EN.pdf
- Günther, W., Reiter, R., Schmidt, P.F. (2019). Migration, Integration und Gesundheit. In: Pickel, G., Decker, O., Kailitz, S., Röder, A., Schulze Wessel, J. (Hrsg) Handbuch Integration. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-21570-5_45-1
- Hoebel B. Wachtler, S. Müters ,N. Michalski, T. Lampert.2021. Migration und Gesundheit. Datenreport 2021 der Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung. https://www.bpb.de/kurz-knapp/zahlen-und-fakten/datenreport-2021/gesundheit/330137/migration-und-gesundheit/, retrieved 8.11.23
- Klein, P., und P. Albrecht. 2017. Asylbewerber und ihre Versorgungssituation. Monatsschrift Kinderheilkunde 165:18–28.
- Migration, Flucht und Gesundheit – Aktuelle Perspektiven aus Deutschland. Bundesgesundheitsblatt 66. Oktober 2023
- Mohammadzadeh, Zahra, Felicitas Jung, und Monika Lelgemann. 2016. Gesundheit für Flüchtlinge – das Bremer Modell. Bundesgesundheitsblatt 59:561–569.
- NSW Refugee Health Service and STARTTS (NSW Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors). 2014. Working with refugees: a guide for social workers. Retrieved 9.11.23 from: https://www.startts.org.au/media/Resource-Working-with-Refugees-Social-Worker-Guide.pdf
- J. Shannon, E. Wieling, J.Simmelink-McCleary, E. Becher. 30 Oct 2014. Beyond Stigma: Barriers to Discussing Mental Health in Refugee Populations. Journal of Loss and Trauma International Perspectives on Stress & Coping, Taylor and Francis Online.
- 2015. Culture, Context and the Mental Health and Psychosocial Wellbeing of Syrians. A Review for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support staff Working with Syrians Affected by Armed Conflict. Retrieved 9.11.23 from: https://www.unhcr.org/55f6b90f9.pdf
- UNHCR, IOM, MHPSS. 2015. Mental Health and Psychosocial Support for Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Migrants on the Move in Europe. A multi-agency guidance note. Retrieved 10.11.23 from: http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/health-determinants/migration-and-health/publications/2016/mental-health-and-psychosocial-support-for-refugees,-asylum-seekers-and-migrants-on-the-move-in-europe.-a-multi-agency-guidance-note-2015
This course about apps for healthcare services is a training programme that provides learners with the knowledge and skills they need to use apps offered by public and private organisations. Public providers are, for example, ministries, subordinate authorities and publicly run healthcare institutions such as national, regional or local health departments. Private providers can be facilities that are commercially run, e.g. companies of the health sector, service providers such as the Red Cross in health care for emergency victims or care facilities for elderly people. This course informs about corresponding facilities in Germany, Spain, Greece, Italy, and Cyprus by presenting examples of health services apps from these countries. The training programme has the following objectives:
- To increase the knowledge of learners on apps for healthcare services in their country of arrival
- To increase their knowledge on using and benefitting from apps for healthcare services in terms of access and availability
- To understand their main functionalities, advantages, and possible deficits
- To understand the implications of apps provided by public and private sources
- To motivate the learners to get engaged with healthcare services apps
- To increase digital knowledge and language skills of the country concerned.
Through interactive sessions, practical exercises, real-life examples, discussions, and action planning, learners will gain confidence in using healthcare services apps from public and private institutions and come to understand and appreciate them as supporters of their own digital health management.
- Newcomer Migrants as learners; migrants who want to improve their health management by learning more about available healthcare services in their country of arrival
- Migrants’ Peers; learners or trainers after being trained as trainers. When they will attend as learners, they could play a role of supporting the Newcomer Migrants along the training process, including support in overcoming language barriers.
- Supports; these could be social workers, health professionals of all kinds, volunteers from organisations that support Newcomer Migrants; learners or trainers after being trained as trainers. When they will attend as learners, they could play a role of supporting the Newcomer Migrants along the training process, including support in overcoming language barriers.
- Learners will know what a healthcare service is and how it can be beneficial for them.
- Learners will be able to identify the healthcare services in general and which are more relevant for them.
- Learners will be able to identify public and private healthcare services apps and their different backgrounds and intentions.
- Learners will be able to critically evaluate public and private healthcare services apps and their use.
- Learners will set up a plan for using healthcare services apps for themselves, a friend or a relative.
- Introduction to healthcare services and respective apps
- Introduction to main healthcare service areas
- Identification of public and private healthcare apps and their different ambitions
- How public and private healthcare services are working
- How healthcare apps can support the self-management of health
Total Duration: 5 hours, 30 minutes
- Teaching session: 2 hours (1 break recommended)
- Experiential training session: 2 hours ( 2 breaks recommended)
- Self-learning supported by online training tools: 30 minutes
- Closing session: 1 hour
- Training materials:
-
- for Teaching Session face to face,
- for Self-learning Session,
- two templates to be filled in for the Experiential Training Session and the Closure Session.
- Supporting educational materials: ice-breaker, quizzes (multiple choice, true-false, matching exercise), questions & answers.
- e-Training Platform and App Training Tool.
- Healthcare Services Apps: Examples of Healthcare Services Apps covering different areas and different public and private providers.
- Other: Bibliography with sources for complementary and further readings, videos (“YouTube”) contents.
- The Robert Koch Institute (Berlin) offers a good overview of publications on the topic of "Migration and Health" in German language:
https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/Gesundheitsmonitoring/Themen/Migration/migration_node.html, retrieved 8.11.23 - European Parliament, Directorate General for Internal Policy: Research for CULT–Committee. Why Cultural Work with Refugees (2017). Retrieved 11.23 from: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2017/602004/IPOL_IDA(2017)602004_EN.pdf
- Günther, W., Reiter, R., Schmidt, P.F. (2019). Migration, Integration und Gesundheit. In: Pickel, G., Decker, O., Kailitz, S., Röder, A., Schulze Wessel, J. (Hrsg) Handbuch Integration. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-21570-5_45-1
- Hoebel B. Wachtler, S. Müters ,N. Michalski, T. Lampert.2021. Migration und Gesundheit. Datenreport 2021 der Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung. https://www.bpb.de/kurz-knapp/zahlen-und-fakten/datenreport-2021/gesundheit/330137/migration-und-gesundheit/, retrieved 8.11.23
- Klein, P., und P. Albrecht. 2017. Asylbewerber und ihre Versorgungssituation. Monatsschrift Kinderheilkunde 165:18–28.
- Migration, Flucht und Gesundheit – Aktuelle Perspektiven aus Deutschland. Bundesgesundheitsblatt 66. Oktober 2023
- Mohammadzadeh, Zahra, Felicitas Jung, und Monika Lelgemann. 2016. Gesundheit für Flüchtlinge – das Bremer Modell. Bundesgesundheitsblatt 59:561–569.
- NSW Refugee Health Service and STARTTS (NSW Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors). 2014. Working with refugees: a guide for social workers. Retrieved 9.11.23 from: https://www.startts.org.au/media/Resource-Working-with-Refugees-Social-Worker-Guide.pdf
- J. Shannon, E. Wieling, J.Simmelink-McCleary, E. Becher. 30 Oct 2014. Beyond Stigma: Barriers to Discussing Mental Health in Refugee Populations. Journal of Loss and Trauma International Perspectives on Stress & Coping, Taylor and Francis Online.
- 2015. Culture, Context and the Mental Health and Psychosocial Wellbeing of Syrians. A Review for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support staff Working with Syrians Affected by Armed Conflict. Retrieved 9.11.23 from: https://www.unhcr.org/55f6b90f9.pdf
- UNHCR, IOM, MHPSS. 2015. Mental Health and Psychosocial Support for Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Migrants on the Move in Europe. A multi-agency guidance note. Retrieved 10.11.23 from: http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/health-determinants/migration-and-health/publications/2016/mental-health-and-psychosocial-support-for-refugees,-asylum-seekers-and-migrants-on-the-move-in-europe.-a-multi-agency-guidance-note-2015
Objectives
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To increase the knowledge of apps for healthcare services
-
To increase knowledge on using and benefitting from apps for healthcare services in terms of access and availability
-
To understand their main functionalities, advantages, and possible deficits
-
To understand the implications of apps provided by public and private sources
-
To motivate getting engaged with healthcare services apps
-
To increase digital knowledge and language skills
Competences
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Participants will be equipped with the skills required to identify, assess, and benefit from healthcare services apps.
-
Participants’ skills will be enhanced in order to make informed decisions about app selection, utilisation, and integration into participants’ everyday life.
Duration: 2 hours
Competences
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To equip participants with the skills required to assess public and provide healthcare services.
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To encourage participants by practical activities to apply their newly-gained knowledge
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To enhance the skills needed to make informed decisions about app selection, utilization, and integration into participants’ everyday life
Duration: 2 hours
Objective
- Self-Assessment via a Quiz
Duration: 30 minutes
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