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Università degli Studi di Parma Università degli Studi di Parma
Second cycle degree course in
Nursing and midwifery sciences
Università degli Studi di Parma
Department of Medicine and Surgery

SANITARY ECONOMICS APPLIED TO THE MANAGEMENT COMPANY
cod. 1004991

Academic year 2011/12
1° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Scienze infermieristiche generali, cliniche e pediatriche (MED/45)
Field
Tirocinio nei ssd di riferimento della classe
Type of training activity
Characterising
24 hours
of face-to-face activities
3 credits
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Integrated course unit module: HEALTH AND CORPORATE ECONOMICS

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Learning objectives

The course aims to provide students with frameworks for interpreting the healthcare system in economic terms and understanding its dynamics and rules, with a particular focus on the role of healthcare professions.

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

The topics explored are connected to the following points:
- The foundations of healthcare economics – interpreting the health service in economic terms. Supply and demand.
- Supply and demand in the health sector.
- The national health service and regional health services.
- Demand-side instruments – business instruments and organisational methods, patients’ partial sharing of costs and waiting lists, disease management, case management, optimisation of primary treatments, healthcare models for chronic illnesses.
- International healthcare systems – interpretation of the (Italian) National Health Service compared with health services internationally and in the USA.

Full programme

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Bibliography

Each lecture will be backed by teaching materials and reading references. The text
recommended by the teacher is the following:
Zangrandi A. (a cura di), Economia e Management per le professioni sanitarie, McGraw-Hill, Milano

Teaching methods

The methodological approach followed entails the active involvement of participants and learning outcomes starting from the application of the concepts taught. Each student will thus be required to develop his/her own project (for more details refer to assessment methods) in order to evaluate whether he/she has absorbed the economic dimension of day-to-day organisation. Students will receive support throughout the course in drawing up their own project, which will be presented by each of them to their colleagues during the last lesson of the course, which provides
a moment of learning from practice.

Assessment methods and criteria

The exam is divided in a first part consisting of the elaboration and discussion of a paper, and a second part, consisting of questions on matters of business economics and on health economics.

Other information

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