Core Courses
First term
During the first term, you are required to
Foundations of Management in Healthcare Organizations
Fundamental issues in organizational behaviour and management in a healthcare environment
- Skills and competences for leadership
- Strategy making
- Human resource management
- Performance management
Healthcare Systems & Policy
Major issues and analytical methods within healthcare systems and their policies from an international perspective
- Health and wellbeing
- Structure and dynamics of healthcare systems in high income countries and emerging economies
- Comparative healthcare systems
Health Economics
Economics applied to health and healthcare
- Microeconomics (demand theory, supply theory, partial and general equilibrium) applied to health and healthcare
- Market failures and regulation
- Macroeconomic analysis applied to healthcare systems
Issues in Public Health and Epidemiology
Introduction to principles and methods of epidemiology
- Current issues in public health and epidemiology
- Measure of occurrence, association and impact
- Epidemiological research studies: intervention studies and observational studies
- Secondary studies and evidence synthesis: systematic reviews and meta-analysis
Quantitative Methods in Healthcare Organizations
Mathematical and statistical techniques, and models of data analysis to assess values and assumptions, and support managerial decisions in the healthcare sector
- Descriptive and Inferential Statistics
- Contingency Analysis
- Correlation analysis
- Simple and multiple linear regression analysis
- Cash Flows evaluation