Administrative Aspects of Health Programs

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This is a course for students of the Environmental Health Program. It is aimed to the analysis and study of the development and content of administration and organization as a discipline and as a process, with emphasis on the latter, as applied to both the governmental and the private sectors, especially to the health industry in general and to environmental health in particular. Basic theories of the administration process as well as its different functions, methods, and techniques will be studied and appl ied to Environmental Health. Substantive problems in the health services industry from the economist point of view. The characteristics of the marketing of the health services will be examined to determine the necessary public policy to insure its efficiency. Topics related to the micro and macroeconomics of health such as the demand and supply for health services, its industrial organization, and its introduction to the efficiency. An introduction to the analytical instruments used in the health industry, such as cost -benefit analysis, programming models, prediction, and public policy models will also be discussed.