Health Services Management

Objectives


In the end students should be able to:

- Recognise the specificities of a healthcare organisation and its impact on healthcare management.
- To analyse and discuss public health policy, including analysis tools, resources, actors and evaluation methods.
- To discuss the Portuguese Health System, including the contextualisation of temporal evolution and comparison with other health systems at European and global levels.
- To use the concepts and methods of strategic management in the creation of value-based organizations.
- To identify the most appropriate organisational design and functional structure for each specific context.
- Use, with rigour and proficiency, management tools in problem analysis and decision making.

General characterization

Code

9654

Credits

4

Responsible teacher

Adalberto Campos Fernandes

Hours

Weekly - Available soon

Total - 112

Teaching language

Available soon

Prerequisites

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Bibliography

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Teaching method


Theoretical and theoretical-practical classes for the presentation and discussion of the themes in the programme. The evaluation will focus on the construction of a portfolio of the curricular unit, being worth 80% of the total evaluation, being 20% attributed to the degree of participation during the course of the curricular unit. The proposal to build a portfolio will allow the student to revisit the subjects addressed during the course, contributing to underpin some fundamental concepts and identify lines of research for which he feels the need and interest to deepen. The portfolio is, simultaneously, an evaluation tool, but also a pedagogical tool, allowing greater focus on concepts such as health and its determinants.

Evaluation method

Available soon

Subject matter


¿ The Specificity of Health Organisation Management (Session 1)
¿ Public Policies in the Health Sector. Evolution and Trends (Session 2)
¿ Health Systems in the World: Context and Evolution (Session 3)
¿ The Portuguese Health System: structure and evolution (Session 4)
¿ Management fundamentals. (Session 5)
¿ Strategic Health Management: organizational strategy; strategic planning; vision, mission and objectives; analysis of internal and external environment; strategic management schools; value chain; policies, systems and value-based organizations (Sessions 6, 7)
¿ Clinical Governance and Hospital Management. Future Challenges of Health Organization Management: Clinical Governance and Hospital Management (Session 8)
¿ Health Organization Management. Organizational Design and Functional Structure (Session 9)
¿ Drug management and health technology assessment (Session 10)
¿ Innovative Experiences in Health Organization Management (Session 11)
¿ Seminar (Session 12)

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