37250 - Health Care Planning, Organization and Management (LZ)

Academic Year 2025/2026

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 5904)

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course the student will have acquired the essential notions on the generalaities of Health Systems, on the porgramming, organization and management of the healthcare processes in the hospital and territorial contexts, and on healthcare economics.

Course contents

The Health System: evolution of healthcare organizaton in Italy.

Enterpreneurship in healthcare, and healthcare offer structures.

Healthcare Management: definition and functions.

The structuring of hospital care: Hospital Discharge Sheets and DRG system.

The territorial (primary care) network.

Case-mix classification systems, financing of healthcare and potential impact on healthcare equity.

The systems of evaluation for Health Systems.

The complexity of programming.

Readings/Bibliography

Manzoli L, Villari P, Boccia A. Epidemiologia e Management in Sanità. Elementi di Metodologia (2° Ed.). Edi-Ermes, 2015.

Teaching methods

In-person lectures.

Assessment methods

In-person oral exam.

Teaching tools

Power Point slides.

Office hours

See the website of Cecilia Acuti Martellucci