Health Care Administration
MODULE: Health Care Administration
Program delivered by distance learning higher education up to a maximum of 30 credits. This module may be combined or completed with other online university courses from this faculty.
DESCRIPTION:
Success in today’s highly technological and rapidly changing world of health care and hospital management requires leaders who have a strong theoretical foundation in the principles of management, technology, legal and ethical issues, finance, economics and human relations. This program is designed to reinforce the critical and creative thinking skills that are needed to plan, finance, coordinate, and evaluate health services. Students develop the leadership skills necessary to balance the competing health care values of reasonable cost, high quality, and access.
Courses list (each subject accounts for 3 credits):
1 BIU Earned Credit = 1 USA Semester Credit (15 hours of learning) = 2 ECTS Credit (30 hours of study).
Health Care Administration
Women & Children Health Policy Gerontology Health Policy Infectious Diseases Hygiene & Safety Health Technology Health Program Planning Long Term Care Health Services Management Hospital Management
Academic Supervisor: Daniel Scott Janik
More information about this supervisor and online university course instructors at BIU Human Network.
This module is applicable to Specialist, Expert, Bachelor's, Master's and Ph.D. (Doctor) Programs. This distance learning degree program is designed at the postgraduate level – Master’s or Doctoral. This module may be easily adapted to complete the Specialist, Expert or Bachelor’s adult degree program requirements. A further option is the enrollment into the online university courses listed in this module.
* University Course (3 credits): Select 1 subject from this module.
* Specialist Diploma (15 credits): First 5 subjects or select 5 subjects from this module.
* Expert Diploma (21 credits): First 7 subjects or select 7 subjects from this module.
* Bachelor's Degree (130 credits): The Admission certificate issued after submission of the application for admission will show the amount of credit transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete this undergraduate program's major. Additional courses from other modules of this faculty will be assigned in case that the credits displayed on this module are not enough to complete the bachelor's required credits.
* Master's Degree (35 credits): Select from 3 to 9 subjects from this module depending on the amount of credits transferred from previous education and experience. Add 13 credits corresponding to a final project to the selected subjects.
* Ph.D. (Doctor) (45 credits): Select from 3 to 9 subjects from this module depending on the amount of credits transferred from previous education and experience. Add 18 credits corresponding to a final thesis to the selected subjects.
BIU issues an admission certificate after receiving your complete application for admission. This document will show the amount of credits transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete the degree program's major. BIU can not perform this evaluation without the complete application for admission.
Courses Description (each subject accounts for 3 credits):
Health Care Administration
This course explores the management processes and roles of public health professionals; health service organization; policy issues, resources utilization and control; human resources management; and public health trends. It discusses current issues affecting health and health care delivery.
Instructor: John Ogony Arudo
Women & Children Health Policy
This course gives an historical account of roles played by government and health policy development for mothers and children, family planning, maternal and infant health, preschool, school-age and adolescent health. It also address the biological mechanisms that underpin human reproduction, infertility, and contraception.
Instructor: Daniel Scott Janik
Gerontology Health Policy
This course explores biological, psychological, and social issues in aging, including cognitive change with age, and the social impact of increasingly older population demographics. It provides a multidisciplinary approach to the health-care needs of the elderly, including medication use, nutrition, health care agencies and roles of individual health care professionals.
Instructor: John Ogony Arudo
Infectious Diseases
This course explores methods used in epidemiology and their application to critical appraisal of clinical, epidemiological, and health administration for evidence-based management of health care organizations, improvement of delivery of health services, and for creating health policies. An emphasis will be placed on understanding the relationships between the host, the parasite and the environment in infectious disease investigations.
Instructor: John Ogony Arudo
Hygiene & Safety
This course introduces the principles of industrial and community hygiene and safety. It examines the anticipation, recognition, evaluation, and control of hazards to health and safety. It includes control methods, hygiene sampling equipment, and develops skills in occupational health and safety hazard recognition in a variety of cases.
Instructor: Luis Fontanet Sallán
Health Technology
This course provides an overview of methods in health technology assessment, including cost-benefit, cost-effectiveness, cost-utility analysis, current controversies, successes and failures in implementing information technology. Medical informatics concerns the representation, organization, and manipulation of biomedical information.
Instructor: Luis Fontanet Sallán
Health Program Planning
This course presents a systems approach in the planning of effective health services to meet the needs of communities. Plans include effective and culturally appropriate implementation strategies, managing planning process, work plans, stakeholders, negotiation, and working with groups.
Instructor: John Ogony Arudo
Long Term Care
This course explores the management of nursing homes and other long term facilities. It includes supervisory policies, labor relations, human relations, gerontology and geriatrics, nutrition and housekeeping, patient care, reimbursement policies, purchasing, inventory, and financial analysis.
Instructor: John Ogony Arudo
Health Services Management
This course applies management thinking to healthcare organizations, from hospitals to biotech companies. It explores health economics, social aspects of medicine, bioethics, health services financing, public health, and epidemiology and their impact upon the health care industry and the delivery of health care services.
Instructor: Daniel Scott Janik
Hospital Management
This course includes hospital governance, medical staff, hospital programs, nursing service, administrator's tasks and functions, management of quality, costs and conflict, unionization and collective bargaining, and government financial regulations.
Instructor: Daniel Scott Janik
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Professionally recognized and validated degrees.
Accredited (Non USA CHEA). International legalization available.
