Course: Economic and Management in Health Care

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Course title Economic and Management in Health Care
Course code KIR/K6MAE
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 3
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Holá Jana, doc. Ing. Ph.D.
  • Špačková Iva, Ing.
Course content
Principles of management and its structure. Organizational behaviour and organizational structure. Marketing of health care services. Management of quality in health care. Personnel management in health care. Enterprise and its aims, types of enterprise, basic terminology in economics. Business organizations. Property and sources of its financing. Expenditures, profits, and economic outcome. Health care systems and their financing. Investments and banking.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Work with text (with textbook, with book)
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to gain knowledge from management and economics: to become familiar with the principles and structure of management from the viewpoint of managerial roles and from the viewpoint of management levels and structures while taking into account health care specifications.
The student knows the issue of organization of health care institutions, marketing of health care services, personnel management, managerial hospital information systems, and management of quality in health care. The student will be able to conduct a basic financial analysis and evaluation of health care systems. The student will become familiar with enterprise economics, which monitors mutual economic relationships and contexts in a given organization and its surroundings, and provides practical instructions for realistic activities. The student will be able to take advantage of this knowledge and to explain and defend its use.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Didactic test

Completion of compulsory 50% attendance at the practicum sessions and seminars. Successful completion of a written test.
Recommended literature
  • Synek, Miloslav. Manažerská ekonomika. Praha: Grada, 2003. ISBN 80-247-0515-X.
  • Truneček, J. Management v informační společnosti. 1. vyd. Praha: VŠE, 1998, 223 s. Povinné učivo v rozsahu str. 7 - 14, 33 - 97, 105 - 112, 137 - 154.
  • Wan, T., T., H. Analýza a vyhodnocování systémů zdravotní péče. Olomouc, VUP, 1998, 254 s.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Health Studies Study plan (Version): General Nurse (2014) Category: Health service 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Health Studies Study plan (Version): General Nurse (2013) Category: Health service 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Summer