Quality Management and Outcomes in Health Systems

Catalog description

This course introduces students the main concepts associated with health systems quality and outcomes measurement, highlighting the relevance, measurement, availability and development issues of health systems performance indicators. It describes examples of the most common indicators to assess health system performance in terms of achieving the health and well-being of the population by endorsing equitable healthcare. Students will be able to be familiar with, explain, and be able to appraise the quality and outcomes of a health system or of one of its components. Instructional strategies will be interactive lectures, journal club discussion and independent study. At the end of course, students will demonstrate their ability to identify and discuss the st atus of the health system’s quality and outcomes in relation of a population group or healthcare sector.