Effective management and governance of health care is a condition of  better functioning of health care system, contributes to the improvement in health status of the population and higher level of patient satisfaction. Health care  is a more complex and more demanding sector than other economical  sectors. Practical management is carried out by specialists representing different disciplines on one hand medical Professional and on the other hand economists. It does not help in meeting the specific demands of the system. That is why only interdisciplinary and multi-sectoral collaboration can result in effective solutions and rendering of health targets. Seeking the compromise between economical and health goals we propose the hereby specialization for the students who have managerial ambitions and negotiation and coordination competences.

Place and language

Institute of Public Health, Jagiellonian University Krakow, Poland
English

Goals

The goal of the specialization is to acquaint the students with the knowledge in economics of health sector, economic analysis and pharmaco-economics, HTA, management of health care units (PG practice, hospital, out-patient, pharmacy) and to equip them with the managerial skills on more advanced level.

Openings

Regardless of theoretical definitions of Public Health and changes on the job market, the scope of its activities can be defined by the institutions, which are considered to be characteristic of its specificity. Such institutions belong to the Public Health infrastructure with the current institutional configuration and spheres of their mission (declared or carried out), which will determine the concept of Public Health existent in the Polish health care institutional reality. The institutions, which belong to this infrastructure, can be naturally treated as potential employers of the Public Health studies graduates. These institutions include (based on the studies carried out in Leonardo da Vinci Project “Improving employability of Public Health graduates‿) :

• government administration (on central and province level),
• local government administration  (three levels of tiers),
• sanitary and epidemiological inspections
• health care providers (hospitals, nursing homes, big practices),
• health care payers (regardless of organizational form; sickness funds as only one of the possibilities),
• educational institutions (in school system),
• academic and research institutions,
• market institutions of the health care sector.
• NGOs

The graduates can expect to be employed in the following positions as:

• member of teams developing health care programs,
• executive manager of teams  carrying out health care programs,
• manager of organizational health care units,
• manger of health promotion and prevention departments in administrative health care units,
• Health promotion and education specialist
• Health policy specialist on central and local level
• Manager/Controller
• Economist
• Human resource specialist
  

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