Key Learning Outcomes
Health care institutions are complex and dynamic. The nature of organisations requires that managers provide leadership, as well as the supervision and coordination of employees. Often managers must consider external and internal domains in carrying out tasks and making decisions.
The external domain refers to the influences, resources, and activities that exist outside the boundary of the organisation but that significantly affect the organisation. These factors include community needs, population characteristics, reimbursement issues as well as government plans.
The internal domain refers to those areas of focus that managers need to address on a daily basis, such as ensuring the appropriate number and types of staff, financial performance and quality of care. Keeping the dual perspective requires significant balance on the part of management of healthcare institutions.
Upon completion of this degree program you will:
Understand the management tools and techniques used to design and manage successful organisations
Develop a good understanding of core financial accounting and control principles
Gain competence in reading and understanding financial statements and develop a robust understanding of the work of management accounting, incorporating budget preparation, budget appraisal, costing, and financial appraisal techniques
Take a practical approach to funding negotiation and negotiation in general
Be able to describe leadership domains and competencies and compare leadership styles
Be able to differentiate between the functions, roles and responsibilities of healthcare managers
Be able to define and apply key quality concepts
Demonstrate personal and professional ethical responsibility in all managerial and organisational decision making
Gain a deeper understanding of evaluating and creating dynamic and flexible strategies for healthcare delivery
Have explored ways to effectively and efficiently foster innovation within the care setting
Understand the features of marketing management in healthcare organisations, and the steps through which marketing helps an organisation identify the needs of and focus on its customers
Be able to design public campaigns in preventive medicine and apply social marketing techniques, both addressing public will and individual behaviours
Have a profound understanding of economic theories and models of programme evaluations
Know basic theories of decision making under uncertainty
Be able to develop decision tree models and Markov models for economic evaluation and evaluate uncertainty in such models
Be able to develop and perform simple HTA-studies
Be experienced in different methods which estimate the effects of a treatment or a policy intervention
Be able to understand, apply and analyse EU pharmaceutical legislation related to relevant cases/topics
Be able to distinguish different decision-making frameworks, such as informed decision making, situated judgment and political decision making
Understand key concepts of pharmaceuticals pricing and market access
Gain an understanding of the key analytical reasoning and tools of health economics and their normative foundations and ethical implications
Have competence to apply economic concepts and models to the fields of demand for health, demand for health services, demand for health insurance, provision of health insurance and provision of healthcare.
Have an enhanced understanding of the health-related behavioural determinants and an overview of some recent policies aimed at improving the population’s lifestyle
Have knowledge of basic economic theories and models of regulation applied to provision of healthcare
Acquire extensive knowledge of the nature and sources of socio-economic data
Have knowledge of relevant econometrics models for the analysis of the economic agents’ behaviour in the field based on cross sectional and longitudinal data
Have developed skills supporting evidence-based decision making, and have adequate knowledge of the evaluation approaches and their applications to the different health promotion programmes
Be able to interpret the decentralisation process in the healthcare sector in many countries
Be able to describe, analyse and critically address economic aspects of global health issues
Be able to utilise data to support quality and performance measurement and decision-making processes for healthcare entities
Will be trained in critically reviewing HTA-studies, in order to judge their validity and applicability and will have advanced knowledge on the usefulness of HTA-studies for policy making
Be able to distinguish different decision-making frameworks, like informed decision making, situated judgment and political decision making
Be able to analyse the impact of various management and leadership theories within healthcare organisations and delivery systems
Become both users and producers of quality health services research that enables evidence-informed decision making
Have gained comprehensive knowledge and understanding of core ethical principles and moral philosophies which can guide ethical decision-making
Be able to design public campaigns in preventive medicine and apply social marketing techniques, both addressing public will and individual behaviours.
Have acquired an advanced level of expertise on how culture and values influence management and organisational practices in the context of a social, political and economic environment
Have developed further the ability to reason and argue taking into account multiculturalism
Have increased the ability to manage with personal resources under pressure
Have acquired a better understanding of the global distribution of health and disease and of the underlying determinants and trends
Have an overview over mechanisms relating population health and economic development
Have a greater understanding of the complexities of health economics and policy in low and middle income countries
Understand the governance of global health through national, multilateral and private institutions including the role of WTO in trade‐related aspects of intellectual property agreement (TRIPS) on access to medicines
Have a profound knowledge of and skills in comparative policy analysis of health system reform
Command on frameworks for prevention and control of global health crises such as influenza pandemics, food scares or bioterrorism
Have a profound understanding of theories and models for the economic evaluation of health programmes like vaccination, drugs provision, disease eradication, healthy behaviour promotion
Have an enhanced understanding of the health-related behavioural determinants and an overview of recent policies aimed at improving the population’s lifestyles in different populations
Be able to identify the concepts of healthcare financing and payment for healthcare
Be able to provide an overview of how health insurance works and to compare and contrast different types of health insurance
Be able to identify the concepts of healthcare financing and payment for healthcare
Have a general knowledge on advanced treatment of health economics issues with a special emphasis on the market for healthcare insurance, pharmaceutical industry, and innovation in healthcare
Will have a detailed knowledge of the enforcement of the EU antitrust rules in the field of healthcare
Is in a position to understand the fundamental microeconomic justifications of public intervention in the economy and to identify potential remedies and their limitations.
Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of core ethical principles and moral philosophies which can guide ethical decision-making
Demonstrate basic knowledge and awareness on how medical prevention programmes are financed, designed and implemented
Be able to critically discuss financial aspects of public health prevention programmes
Be familiar with measures to ensure the sustainability of health systems in the future and ways to monitor, manage and improve performance so that health systems are as effective and efficient as possible
Have experience in exercising executive ability in a project