Course: Management and Economics

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Course title Management and Economics
Course code KKO/P6MEK
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)
  • Medunová Gabriela, Mgr. MBA, DBA
  • Krejčík Tomáš, Mgr.
Course content
Enterprise and its objectives, types of enterprise, basic economic concepts. 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 subject is to gain knowledge of management and economics: to become familiar with the nature and structure of management in terms of managerial functions and in terms of levels and subjects of management while taking into account the specifics of health care.
Students know the issue of organization of healthcare facilities, marketing of health services, personnel management, managerial hospital information systems, and management of quality in health care. They will be able to perform a basic analysis of financing and evaluation of health care systems. They will become familiar with business economics, which tracks mutual economic relations and connections in a given facility as well as its surroundings and provides practical guidelines for real activities. They will be able to use this knowledge, give reasons for its use, and defend it. Students know the issue of organization of healthcare facilities, marketing of health services, personnel management, managerial hospital information systems, and management of quality in health care. They will be able to perform a basic analysis of financing and evaluation of health care systems. They will become familiar with business economics, which tracks mutual economic relations and connections in a given facility as well as its surroundings and provides practical guidelines for real activities. They will be able to use this knowledge, give reasons for its use, and defend it.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination, Home assignment evaluation

Completion of compulsory 50%. Successful completion of a written examination.
Recommended literature
  • Barták, Miroslav. Mezinárodní srovnávání zdravotnických systémů. Praha: Wolters Kluwer Česká republika, 2012. ISBN 978-80-7357-984-5.
  • 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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