Master's Degree in Health Service Administration

Specific skills

- Describe the origin, evolution, and justification of current health systems.
- Understand the differences between health needs, service demand, and care provision.
- Acquire criteria for planning and programming health services based on population needs.
- Prioritize based on necessity criteria without disregarding elements of user preference and expectations.
- Develop the relational aspect of health organizations by valuing the involvement of the population in the governance of health institutions and in the financing of the system.
- Correctly apply personnel management techniques to ensure that the knowledge of professionals benefits the organization.
- Adapt the production of organizations to the new expectations of the population, knowing how to take advantage of the opportunities of territorial-based health financing systems.
- Interpret the economic information of the organization with criteria, valuing the main financial, operational, and treasury indicators, as well as their relationship with the type of client and the service purchasing system.
- Understand the different aspects of health management, at macro (health policy), meso (center management), and micro (clinical management) levels, as well as in the different care lines.
- Correctly apply quality management and patient safety models.

Transferable skills

- Develop their personal communication potential.
- Understand the motivations of the staff and the motivating systems and instruments.
- Perform a self-diagnosis of leadership and know the different styles.
- Identify team roles and know the skills to develop them.
- Apply strategies and tactics to conduct a negotiation.

Title obtained

Lifelong Learning Master's Degree in Health Service Administration