Specialization in Strategic Management of Health Organizations

The role of the State in social and health policies. The social and National settings Human Rights and health. Conceptual waterfall. Governability of the health system. Health cosmogony. The health systems in an international context. Essential functions of Public health. The health system in Argentina. Health situation in Argentina. Health inequity. Factors in health conditions. Territorial order and prospective development system. Brief review of medical activity. Hospital management system in order to highlight the work substations.

Lecture Hours: 32 hs.

Formulation and economic evaluation of projects. Social policies. Resources assignation. Feasibility studies. Plans and programming. Political and strategic approach to social programs. Financing. Projects design. Efficiency and effectiveness. Health programs and investment projects. Sensibility analysis. Scenarios of the sector. Cost-Benefit relation. Cost-Effectiveness analysis. Importance of the measurement of indicators of health. Basic indicators. Indicators for measuring health. Construction, recollection and evaluation of indicators. Evaluation of the health product. Net present value (NPV) and Internal Rate of Return (IRR).

Lecture Hours: 24 hs.

Principles and components of the health system. The Financing of the system and the market. Historical evaluation of the health system. Reform proposal of the health system.

Lecture Hours: 10 hs.

Role of the State in the health systems. The models of care and health system attributes. The financing, health spending and the financial resources. User role, selection of the provider, community participation in health. Centralization, regionalization, decentralization. Human resources at different levels of care.

Lecture Hours: 10 hs.

The current state of the health economics, new instruments and fields of application in evaluation of health projects. Morphology markets services and supplies health care , performance and results. Evolution of the Medical Social Security and its relationship to the development of the supply of private services in Argentina. The demand and supply of health care, comparative case studies, changes in the markets and emerging reforms.

Lecture Hours: 32 hs.

Application phases of a quality program. Tools quality assessment and the different phases of healthcare. Existing systems of accreditation and applicable to a hospital. Operation of an accreditation program: accreditation bodies , accreditation standards , accreditation process and its benefits. Costs of quality and no-quality.

Lecture Hours: 24 hs.

Limitations of the market economy. Market failures. The effects of information asymmetries. “Baumol” effect on the increase of the costs of diseases that caused distortion in the assignation of the budget in different economic sectors. Changing the health status and the burden of loco-regional disease. Use of socio-demographic factors in the region: strategic analysis to address/solve increasing dependence biomedical safety, given the current social setting. The need to maintain and / or increase the productive regional level within a framework of social security with the usual increase in population and the desired cultural development.

Lecture Hours: 10 hs.

The epidemiological method. Introduction to biostatistics. Methodological designs. Risk focus. Epidemiological information. Evaluation. Epidemiology and health services. Health policy goals.

Lecture Hours: 24 hs.

Introduction to biostatistics and medical biostatistics. Descriptive statistics. Data presentation. Numerical summary measures. Taxes and standardization. Life tables. Inferential statistics. Probability and probability distribution. Confidence intervals. Hypothesis test. Inference on continuous data and proportions. Contingency tables. Correlation. Linear and logistic regression. Survival analysis.

Lecture Hours: 12 hs.

Information systems. Information and technology. Development of systems of information. Information systems in health organizations. The management of the informatic resources. Virtual networks on health.

Lecture Hours: 24 hs.

Culture and process of health/disease/care. The medicalization of life and collective representations on health. Political Economy of medical systems. Risk Society and pollution in the world.

Lecture Hours: 12 hs.

Design and elaboration of the final work: Selection of the work proposal, Feasibility of the proposal; Importance of the proposal to reality; Appointment of a guardian or principal; Guidelines for the preparation of the proposed work. Guidance for the preparation of the final work: Procedure, Format; Delivery Work, Main aspects of the theoretical framework and research background and definition of objectives.

Lecture Hours: 24 hs.

Organizational management. Complexity and systems. Models of organizational analysis. strategic variables keys Address: Strategic. Planning and Control Structure, Leadership, its relationship with the Power, Communication and Culture. Processes and tools for organizational change.

Lecture Hours: 24 hs.

Accounting information systems. The entities and heritage. The output of the system. Its lecture. Economic, equity and financial information. Rational decision making. Analysis and interpretation of the information. Cost accounting. Costs for health management organizations. Public accounting. Theoretical and legal framework. Application cases.

Lecture Hours: 24 hs.

The management process of human resources. Recruitment and selection. Orientation. Training. Performance evaluation. Management remuneration. Career development. Foundations of individual behavior. Attitudes and laboral satisfaction. Personality and values. Perception and making decision individually. Foundations of the grupal behavior. Group formation. Roles. Composition. Size. Rules. Decision making. Effective teams. Management of internal relations. Development of internal communication. Conflict and negotiation. Direction and conduction. Leadership: basic focus. Ethics and confidence.

Lecture Hours: 24 hs.

Introduction to management in clinical practice. Functions of the clinical management, Clinical management unit. Factors related to hospital efficiency. Unit of measurement of hospital product. Hospital organization. Managerial function. Medical function. Technical function types. Different work substations and logistics. Patient classification system. Basic characteristics. Management control. Use of days/bed. Monitoring the quality of care. Readmission analysis. Analysis of clinical decisions in medical practice. Correlation between budget assignments and results. Medicine based on evidence. Clinical practice guidelines. Prevention in clinical practice: Guidelines for preventive practices.

Lecture Hours: 24 hs.

Marketing service. Health Marketing. Characteristics of the services. Basic services and peripheral services. Health services management. Services culture. Perception of quality indicators. Users satisfaction in health services. Ways of measuring the patients/users satisfaction. Health services structuring.

Lecture Hours: 10 hs.

General services management. Introduction to integrated logistics. Functions of integrated logistics. Strategic assets in hospital services. Strategic plan. Functional plan. Basics of strategic plans. The new tendency in the logistics management: e-logistics: from e-sourcing to outsourcing. Just-in-time strategy. Logistics material. Stock management. Provisioning. valuation and stock rotation. Purchasing and inventory management. Demand projections. Independent demand. Dependent demand.

Lecture Hours: 10 hs.

Budgets medical liability. Values, principles and rules. Exemption from responsibility. Damage prevention. Bioethics Committees. Basic health legislation. Documents and international declarations. OMS., OPS. y CIOMS. The medical enterprise. Professional responsibility in medical clinic, surgery, pediatrics, diagnostic imaging, obstetrics, infectious diseases (HIV) and research in humans. Labor law applied to health organizations. Conflict management, analysis of interests, incentives.

Lecture Hours: 10 hs.

The evaluation process of the medical technology. Ethics aspects. Analysis and elaboration. Installed / operational technology park. Drug supplies. Prosthetics and orthotics. Other scientific-technical resources. Medicine based on evidence (MBE). International experiences. Pathologies: low incidence and high costs. Absence of " spatial planning ". Normalization and standardization of medical action to carefully evaluate the positive and negative effects before allowing its introduction:

• at the " macro " level, in the process of authorization and funding.
• at the "meso " level, to define services and service contracts.
• at the “micro” level, as guidance in the professional task given the variability of medical practice.

Lecture Hours: 10 hs.

Modality: Practice in a health organization - Tutoring classroom for practical work tracking - Bibliographic discussion groups. Evaluation: Elaboration of practical work.

• Module 1: Community Health

  Social participation in health. Health systems and community participation. The role of health organizations in the community. Care models. Analysis of management models of participatory health organizations. Introduction of innovative elements of integration of the health organization with the community. The health institutions working with community organizations (governmental, non-governmental, community referents, etc) Programs with community participation. Patient and Public Involvement in Healthcare. National and international experiences. Study of a program of a health organization with community participation. (Cases study: ex. Models based on mental health community).

  Lecture Hours: 10 horas.

• Module 2: Promotion and Health Education

  Health promotion. Concept, objectives, strategies. Health promotion in the different life stages and in specific health problems. (Agreed between teacher and student in order to correspond with practical work). Prevention. Concept. Prevention levels. Health education. Concept, objectives. Strategies of health education in specific areas. (Agreed between teacher and student in order to correspond with practical work). Social and health representations. Analysis of specific cases (Agreed between teacher and student in order to correspond with practical work).

  Lecture Hours: 20 hs.

The students must pass all subjects and fulfill all the other requirements established in the Regulation, before submitting the final Specialization work. If this final work is passed, then students will get the Specialist degree in Accounting and Auditing This final work will be accompanied by the endorsement of the Director thereof and shall comply with the provisions of the Regulation. To the extent that your plan requires it , you may propose an external Director to the University. In this case, an internal co-director will be appointed. The final specialization work will address a practical and professional problem related to that proposed by the specialization course and , if possible , to the scope of work of the student. In such final work, the student will have to show the extent of their acquired knowledge and abilities, comprising the contributions of all subjects.

Lecture Hours: 20 hs.