HEALTH MANAGEMENT AND EVALUATION (ATT)
CORPORATE ECONOMICS (3 credits) | GENERAL AND APPLIED HYGIENE (2 credits) |
Learning outcomes of the course unit
Give knowledges about the epidemiological methods applied in public health, health organization and health economics.
Course contents summary
Epidemiological methods
General concepts of prevention and evaluation of the health needs
History and applications of epidemiology. The sources of the
statistical and epidemiological data
Measures: descriptive and analytical: crude, specific and
standardized rates
Relations cause-effect
Ecological, cross-sectional, case-control and cohort Studies
Experimental Studies, Experimentation of new medicines and vaccines
Drawing of the study, collection of the data, ethical and privacy
in epidemiology
Coding and analysis of the data. Bias in epidemiology
Health Organization
The sources of the law. General overview of health legislation
International health Organization. Role of WHO
Italian health Organization national and regional: from the L
833/78 to the Devolution
Hospital and territorial Organization of the NHS
Health economics and management
Introduction to health ecomomics and health organization
The costs of the proceeded of production and consumption
The rudiments of efficiency, effectiveness and equity; protection
of the health and health politics.
Organization: systemic analysis; the organizational variables and
the variable of context; the organizational planning
The proceeded of coordination in health
The budget in Local Health Units
Recommended readings
For epidemiological methods and health organization:
C.Signorelli. Igiene epidemiologia Sanita Pubblica (IV ed). SEU, 2008
S. Barbuti. Igiene e medicina preventiva. Monduzzi Ed, 2008.
Signorelli C. Elementi di metodologia epidemiologica (VI ed.). SEU, Roma, 2005.
For health ecomomics and management:
Dirindin N., Vineis P., Elementi di economia sanitaria, 2. edizione, Bologna, Il mulino, 2004
Zangrandi A. (1999), Amministrazione delle aziende sanitarie pubbliche, Giuffrè, Milano.
Teaching methods
Teachers:
SSD MED/42: Prof.Carlo Signorelli (Coordinator)
SSD SECS P/07: Prof.Antonello Zangrandi