Health Policy and Management

Code: ENF14478M

3 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/81 hours

Scientific Area: Health Sciences

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Saúde e bem-estar - Assegurar uma vida saudável e promover o bem-estar para todos, em todas as idades.

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Learning Goals

This Curricular Unit aims to increase the understanding of the complexity and role of health systems and specifically the National Health Service. In this way, to increase citizen and professional participation in the process of defining health policies. Concomitantly, it is intended that students understand the management models and processes of health services in their multiple dimensions.
In the end, students are expected to be able to:
- Understand the functioning of the Health System and the National Health Service;
- Understand the evolution of Health Policies in Portugal;
- Understand the management and organization models of health services, considering the dimensions of quality, management and organization of nursing care and people management

1. Health policies and organization of health systems
Health policies and health systems: Context and determinants of their evolution
Organizational typology of health systems
Analysis of the evolution of health systems
Financing, innovation, costs and impacts
2. Evolution of health policies in Portugal
Health policies in Portugal today
3. Health service management and organization models
Quality and development of health services
Nursing care management and organization
People management
leadership,
delegation,
secure appropriations,
supervision,
conflict management,
professional performance and
evaluation

Teaching Methods

The teaching/learning process will be organized based on theoretical and theoretical-practical teaching sessions. In the theoretical sessions, the first approach to the theme is promoted, presenting the different perspectives on it and confronting the student with conflicting and/or complementary approaches. In the theoretical-practical sessions, emphasis is placed on the student's work and his active participation in dynamizing the sessions through the analysis, discussion and debate of the different themes, previously the subject of study and reflection. These teaching sessions, where the debate dominates the teaching-learning process, will always be guided and moderated by the teacher. The assessment consists of an individual assignment.