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Health Economics and Financial Management
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
Workload and ECTS
| Class workload | Total workload | ECTS |
| 230 | 900 | 30 |
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Content
Funding of health care sector Balancing revenue and expenditures within the sector Determinants of the health care expendituresModelling and projections of health care budget Specifics of the insurance method of funding (demand, supply, market and market failures)Social and private health insurance Incentives used for insurers, health providers and patientsFinancing method of health care establishments
Main teachers
Workload and ECTS
| Class workload | Total workload | ECTS |
| 30 | 110 | 4 |
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- Types of economic analyses:
- Cost analysis
- Cost-benefit analysis
- Cost-effectiveness analysis
- Cost-utility analysis
- Data collection and analysis
- Indicators used in the economic analysis
- Stages in the economic analysis
- Using of the economic evaluation studies in the health management
- Preparing economic evaluation case study
Main teachers
Workload and ECTS
| Class workload | Total workload | ECTS |
| 30 | 110 | 4 |
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- Pharmaceuticals and their position in medicine and health care
- Pharmaceutical market and drug policy
- Drug utilization studies
- Management of pharmaceuticals in health care facilities
- Pharmacoeconomic analyses
- Hands-on experience in pharmacoeconomics
Main teachers
Workload and ECTS
| Class workload | Total workload | ECTS |
| 30 | 110 | 4 |
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- The meaning of HTA procedure
- Methods of gathering and processing information necessary for HTA
- Clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness in HTA
- Critical assessment of medical literature on EBM and clinical effectiveness
- Health care impact analysis of health technologies
- The role of HTA procedure in health care decision-making
- International overview of HTA applications, guidelines and organizations
Main teachers
Workload and ECTS
| Class workload | Total workload | ECTS |
| 20 | 80 | 3 |
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The module is composed of three parts: managing human resources in health care units operational management in health care units strategic management in health care
- Selected topics: Managing Human Resources:
- Planning and recruitment
- Job assessment
- Motivating people
- Career development
- Outplacement
- Conflict resolution
- Selected topics: Operational Management
- System approach to organization
- Efficiency and productivity of line and staff operations
- System analysis: QA and QI techniques
- Loses identification and elimination
- Information management improvement
- Selected topics: Strategic Management:
- Strategic analysis of health care units: external and internal
- Health care units’ key success factors
- Strategies for health care units: strategy outline and development
- Building strategic plans for health care units
- Implementing strategic plans in health care units
Main teachers
Workload and ECTS
| Class workload | Total workload | ECTS |
| 80 | 330 | 9 |
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Main aim is to train the integrative approach to solve the problems of the health care unit changing and restructuring.
- Reasons for organizational change
- Internally and externally driven change
- Changes and market position of organization
- Strategies of matching to the change
- Innovations and its role in changing organization
- Ways of restructuring, change planning
- Change financing of organizational change
- Transition period characteristics and management
- Dealing with change resistance, personnel issues
- Monitoring of change and corrective measures
- Cost and effectiveness of change, assessment
- Case study of a health care unit in change.
- Meeting(s) with leaders - change agents (05-05)
Main teachers
Workload and ECTS
| Class workload | Total workload | ECTS |
| 30 | 110 | 4 |
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- provision of the key definitions and presentation of the evolution of e health systems
- review of most signifant e health/telemedicine applications
- the analysis of condition necessary for e health environment development
- exploration of benefits attributable to the implementation of e health solutions
- focus on specific e health domain, e.g. telemonitoring and chronic care
Workload and ECTS
| Class workload | Total workload | ECTS |
| 10 | 50 | 2 |
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