This is an outstanding course that provides the concepts and tools necessary to enable healthcare managers and policy makers to build better health care systems.
The course provides the delegates with an updated content throughout to make it more international and comprehensive in its coverage of topics. It includes valuable material for healthcare professionals involved in management, research and health policy making.
Course Objectives
On completion of this course you should be able to:
Gain an understanding of healthcare systems, services, organizations and management
Describe the challenges of the political and social environment in which healthcare systems and organizations exist, and how that environment is changing.
Discuss the characteristics and dynamics which make healthcare organizations so interesting and yet so difficult to lead.
Integrate theory and practice and to have the adaptability that come from understanding the nature of management and leadership.
Define healthcare leadership and networks: incentives, governance and performance
Gain knowledge on allocating resources for healthcare: setting and managing priorities
Get a comprehensive overview of the complexities of healthcare organization and management.
Course Outlines
Introduction: The current and future challenges of healthcare management
Health Systems
The politics of healthcare and the health policy process: implications for healthcare management
Financing healthcare: funding systems and healthcare costs
Allocating resources for healthcare: setting and managing priorities
Research, innovation and health technology assessment
Health and well-being: the wider context for healthcare management
Global health policy: governing health systems across borders
Healthcare Services
Healthcare services: strategy, direction and delivery
Primary healthcare
Chronic disease and integrated care
Acute care: elective and emergency, secondary and tertiary
Mental health
Social care
Healthcare Organizations
Purchasing healthcare
Buildings, facilities and equipment
Informatics for healthcare systems
The healthcare workforce
User perspectives and involvement
Healthcare Management and Leadership
leadership and governance
Personal and organizational development in healthcare