Course: Management and Economics

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Course title Management and Economics
Course code KKO/K6MAE
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 3
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 1
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)
  • Krejčík Tomáš, Mgr.
  • Medunová Gabriela, Mgr. MBA, DBA
Course content
Enterprise and its objectives, types of enterprise, basic economic terms. Assets and sources of financing. Costs, revenues and profit and loss. Health care systems and their financing.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book)
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to acquire knowledge of management and economics: to acquaint students with the essence and structure of management in terms of managerial functions and in terms of levels and objects of management, considering the specifics of health care.
Students are familiar with the organization of health care facilities, marketing of health services, personnel management, hospital management information systems, and quality management in health care. Students are able to perform basic analysis of financing and evaluation of health care systems. Students become familiar with business economics, which looks at the economic interrelationships and contexts within and around a given facility and provides practical guidance to real-world activities. Students are able to apply this knowledge, justify and defend its use.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Didactic test

50 % compulsory attendance in lectures. Passing a written test.
Recommended literature
  • BARTÁK, M. Mezinárodní srovnávání zdravotnických systémů. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2012.
  • Borovský, Juraj. Ekonomika zdravotnických zařízení. Praha: České vysoké učení technické, 2012. ISBN 978-80-01-05055-2.
  • Hospodková, Petra. Ekonomika zdravotnických zařízení. Praha: České vysoké učení technické v Praze, 2024. ISBN 978-80-01-07333-9.
  • SYNEK, M. a kol. Manažerská ekonomika. 5. vyd. Praha: Grada, 2011.
  • ZLÁMAL, J.; BELLOVÁ, J. Ekonomika zdravotnictví. 1. vyd. Brno: NCO NZO, 2013.


Study plans that include the course
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