Course outline

School

Economics & Social Sciences

Department

Business Administration

Level of Studies

Undergraduate

Course code

505

Semester

5^ο

Course title

Health Care Management

INDEPENDENT TEACHING ACTIVITIES

Weekly teaching hours
-

ECTS

4

5

Type of course

ELECTIVE

Prerequisite course

Language of instruction and exams

Greek

The course is offered to Erasmus students

ΝΟ

Course URL

eclass

Learning outcomes

• Understand the concept, importance, levels and basic functions of modern management but recognize the basic evolutionary approaches to management.
• Know the basic categories and forms of organizations that provide health services as well as to distinguish the basic organizational specificities in this area.
• Understand the definition, document the meaning, distinguish the types and develop the process of planning programming with examples from the health services field.
• Understand the definition, document the meaning, distinguish the types of organization as well as understand the process of segmentation but analyze an organizational chart of a health unit.
• Understand the concept and importance of human resource management as well as its basic functions (planning, job analysis, staffing, evaluation, training, remuneration) focusing on the health sector.
• Recognize operational problems in the health services field, distinguish and compare planned and unplanned decisions, levels of decision-making and the decision-making process.
• Explain why communication is necessary in the effective management of health units, define communication, state the communication process as well as the forms of formal and informal communication.
• Provide a definition for leadership, describe the main characteristics of the theories that explain it and use the managerial grid.
• Describe the relationship of motivation to performance in a health unit, evaluate and compare the main theories of motivation.
• Explain the need for screening, describe the types and process of screening, and identify potential side effects of the screening process in the health sector.
• Know the human geography of the health services area as well as the main producers of health professionals.
• Understand the particularities of the health services area and know the management functions in a hospital.
• Know and recognize the role and importance of the management of a health organization in terms of its medical and nursing work as well as its educational and research function.
• Understand the social aspects of the identity and operation of health units in terms of the relationships that develop with social becoming and also between health professionals and patients or their relatives.
• Understand the health good as a separate good from the rest, but also present the way in which the health good market works, the factors that determine the demand and supply of this good.
• Connect and relate healthcare to wider social and political issues.
• Connect and relate healthcare to wider social and political issues.

General Skills

Search, analysis and synthesis of data and information, using the necessary technologies

Adaptation to new situations

Decision making

Work in an interdisciplinary environment

Project planning and management

Respect for diversity and multiculturalism

Demonstration of social, professional and ethical responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues

Development of criticism and self-criticism

Promotion of free, creative and inductive thinking

• Acquaint students with the basic principles of management both at a theoretical and practical level,
• Determine the texture and specificity of the challenges related to the administration of health services and especially hospitals,
• Offer students the opportunity to face (through exercises, case studies, etc.) specific management issues and problems.

TEACHING METHOD

face-to-face

USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES

Use of information and communication technologies in teaching, laboratory education, communication with students. Electronic communication with students, learning-process support through the “e-class” online platform.

TEACHING ORGANIZATION

STUDENT EVALUATION

Examination language: Greek

Written exams (100%)