At the end of the course, students should be able to:
- Use methods to collect, analyse and treat quantitative information
- Use SPSS to process survey answers in order to produce information from the data
- Summarize data by using frequency tables, graphical representations and numerical indicators
- Select, perform and interpret a statistical test
- Perform and interpret a Principal Component Analysis
- Reduce the information through the construction of composite variables
- Have a critical perspective towards the statistical results
- Communicate orally and in writing the results of the work done within the scope of health statistical data analysis.

1. Introduction to methods for collecting information and Sampling processes
2. Statistical inference
- Parametric tests of hypothe¬ses: one mean, equality of two means for equal or different variances;
- Test of equality of variances;
- Oneway ANOVA;
- Multiple comparison tests;
- Nonparametric tests of hypothe¬ses: goodness-of-fit test of Kolmogorov-Smirnov; qui-square independence test; test of Mann-Whitney; test of Kruskal-Wallis.
- Applications in SPSS.
3. Information reduction techniques
- Summated scores. Internal consistency: Cronbach's alpha.
- Principal components analysis
o Objectives and definition of principal components;
o Selection of principal components: extraction criteria;
o Rotation of the components;
o Interpretation of the principal components.
- Application in SPSS.

In addition to strict compliance with the program regulation, the periodical evaluation method requires a minimum class attendance of 60% and:
- An assignment (individual or in group) with a weight of 20%;
- An individual test, with a weight of 80% and a minimum grade of 10 points.
Alternatively, the final exam, similarly to phase two exams, will account for 100% of the final grade, disregarding the periodical assessment component.

At the end of the course, students should be able to:


1. Explain the main concepts of time value of money and be able to compare cash flows with different maturities;

2. To describe the concept of business profitability, liquidity and solvency and to compute and analyze the most relevant economic/financial ratios and indicators;

3. To describe and compute de concept of working capital and liquidity indicator and to link it with the firm's financial condition

4. Use the fundamental techniques of capital budgeting evaluation;

1. Time Value of Money

2. Financial analysis and value added

3. Economic analysis of growth opportunities

4. Advanced topics in capital budgeting

In addition to strict compliance with the program regulation, the periodical evaluation method requires a minimum class attendance of 60% and:
- An assignment (individual or in group) with a weight of 30%;
- An individual test, with a weight of 70% and a minimum grade of 10 points.
Alternatively, the final exam, similarly to phase two exams, will account for 100% of the final grade, disregarding the periodical assessment component.

The main purpose of this unit is to enable students:

1.To explain the health quality systemic approach.
2.To describe the relation between quality management and processes of change and to identify the main constraints and obstacles;
3.To identify assessment and monitoring mechanisms of health systems and organizations;
4.To identify the health quality dimensions;
5.To describe the main quality management systems (QMS);
6.To describe the main quality improvement methodologies and tools;
7.To identify the leader quality organizations, international and national;
8.To explain the concept and role of risk management;
9.To describe the Patient Safety Movement, its objectives and to identify solutions and success cases.

1. Historical evolution and perspectives of the concept of health quality;
2. Certification and Accreditation programs;
3. Assessment and monitoring mechanisms of health systems and organizations;
4. Leadership and Quality in healthcare;
5. Quality continuous improvement tools and methodologies;
6. Healthcare quality Indicators: structure, process and outcomes;
7. National and international framework for Patient Safety;
8. Risk management: challenges and solutions;
9. Health literacy and patient safety.

In addition to strict compliance with the program regulation, the periodical evaluation method requires a minimum class attendance of 60% and:
- An assignment (individual or in group) with a weight of 20%;
- An individual test, with a weight of 80% and a minimum grade of 10 points.
Alternatively, the final exam, similarly to phase two exams, will account for 100% of the final grade, disregarding the continuous assessment component.

At the end of this unit`s term, the student must be able to:
LG 1. Characterization of health organizations
LG 2. To diagnose an health organization
LG 3. Design a project of organizational change

Syllabus:
1-Institutional and market dimensions
2-Organizational structure.
3- Organizational Culture
4-Organizational diagnosis: An integrated Approach. Management of people processes, innovation and results
5-Strategies: Participative, transformational, telling and forcing

In addition to strict compliance with the program regulation, the periodical evaluation method requires a minimum class attendance of 60% and:
- An assignment (individual or in group) with a weight of 40%;
- An individual test, with a weight of 60% and a minimum grade of 10 points.
Alternatively, the final exam, similarly to phase two exams, will account for 100% of the final grade, disregarding the periodical assessment component.

At the end of this unit`s term, the student must be able to understand the concepts to:
LG 1. Describe the leadership concept in health organizations.
LG2. Describe the link between leadership and organizational culture.
LG3. Identify factors that support team building.
LG4. Identify management conflicts strategies;

Syllabus
1. Leadership and management in health organizations.
2. Leadership profiles and organizational culture.
3. Team building.
4. Commitment and Motivation. 5.Conflict and Negotiation

In addition to strict compliance with the program regulation, the periodical evaluation method requires a minimum class attendance of 60% and:
- An assignment (individual or in group) with a weight of 50%;
- An individual test, with a weight of 50% and a minimum grade of 10 points.
Alternatively, the final exam, similarly to phase two exams, will account for 100% of the final grade, disregarding the periodical assessment component.

At the end of this learning unit's term, the student must be able:

LG1: To use economic concepts to understand the health sector

LG2: To present methodologies for economic evaluation of health care programmes.

Part A: Introduction
Part B: Key Issues in Health Economics
Part C: Applied Economics for Health Decision Making (I): issues in health care production
Part D: Applied Economics of Health Decision Making (II): Economic Evaluation of Health Programs

In addition to strict compliance with the program regulation, the periodical evaluation method requires a minimum class attendance of 60% and:
- An assignment (individual or in group) with a weight of 30%;
- An individual test, with a weight of 70% and a minimum grade of 10 points.
Alternatively, the final exam, similarly to phase two exams, will account for 100% of the final grade, disregarding the periodical assessment component.

Realize and present to an audience a diagnosis study on a management
control model (written and oral format);
2. Know how to select the management control tools most adequate to the needs of managers;
3. Interpret financial and non-financial information and structure it from a managerial standpoint;
4. Propose the implementation of management control tools through a
corporate performance perspective.

I - Management Control System: Key Ideas
Performance Management and entity value
Performance perspectives
Control systems principles

II - Management control systems process
Technical instruments
Planning cycle role on defining objectives.
Performance measurement systems: Tableau de bord and Balanced Scorecard.
Organizational structure based on responsibility centers; cost, profit and investment centers
Performance evaluation criteria of responsibility centers

III - Balanced Scorecard methodology - case study en healthy entity.

Ongoing evaluation requires a minimal presence in 60% of the classes time and includes the accomplishment of:
- An individual or group - 30%;
- An individual test- 70% and a minimum score of 10 points.
The assessment is performed in two phases. 1st -phase the participant will be in the continuous evaluation system. 2nd phase- it corresponds to a final exam that will represent 100% of the final score obtained, in this case it will not be considered the continuous evaluation result.

1.Identify the concepts and methods of Epidemiologic Science
2.Characterize the principles of epidemiological surveillance
3. Apply epidemiological principles to health planning and prevention and control of diseases.
4.Apply epidemiological principles to the evaluation of health policies

1 General Epidemiology:
Introduction. Concepts and application of epidemiology
2. Epidemiological surveillance: Principles concepts and methods applied to infectious diseases and chronic diseases with more prevalence in Portugal and in Health Programs surveillance .
3. Descriptive and Analytic Epidemiology
Epidemiology: Research studies applied to Health decision .
4.Epidemiology and the evaluation of Health Policies .
5. Epidemiology and Health Administration

Ongoing evaluation requires a minimal presence in 60% of the classes time and includes the accomplishment of:
- An individual test- 100% and a minimum score of 10 points.
The assessment is performed in two phases. 1st- the participant will be in the continuous evaluation system. 2nd - it corresponds to a final exam that will represent 100% of the final score obtained, in this case it will not be considered the continuous evaluation result.

1. Relate the HR Function with the organization business and, as well, with the social, political and economic environment within the organization operates;
2. To identify the main critical factors of change in organizations;
3. To characterize the Human Resources Management practices;
4. To relate the importance of strategic human resource with organizational performance;
5. Critically analyze HRM case studies

1. The papers of HRM: personnel's administrator to strategic partner
2. To manage people in different strategic moments
3. The strategy and practice of SHR: a matter of choice? Human resource management in the initial phases of the life of organizations.
4. Strategic human resources
5. Case Study: The integrated management of human resources - the articulation of managerial strategy and the practices

Ongoing evaluation requires a minimal presence in 60% of class time and includes the accomplishment of:
An individual or group work - 40%;
An individual test -60% and a minimum score of 10 points.
The assessment is performed in two phases. In the 1st phase the participant will be in the continuous evaluation system. In the 2nd phase corresponds to a final exam that will represent 100% of the final score obtained, in this case it will not be considered the continuous evaluation result.

1. Defining the legal framework and structure of the health system
2. Defining the medical and legal principles which rule the health professional's activity
3. Caracterizing the labour and disciplinary status of the health professionals.
4. In-depth analysis of central aspects of the legal status of the health professionals (informed consent, medical responsibility, health information and data protection)

I - Legal and Institutional Framework
1. Constitutional Health Law
2. International Sources, "principlism" and Human Rights
3. Implementation of Human Rights with projection on the field of medical law:
4. Protection of personality: personality rights and relevant criminal types
5. Implementation and setting out to (other) relevant issues in the medical-legal field: adversed effects or medical malpractice; medical confidentiality and information to third parties by breaching confidentiality (the case of HIV/Aids); leges artis and end(ing) of life (palliative care and euthanasia).
6. Structure / organization of the health system and review of normative instruments

II - Medical Law: Practioner's Status and Professional Performance
1. Health Professional's Employment and Disciplinary Status
2. Health Professional's performance: particular aspects of its legal regime:
-Medical responsibility
-The informed consent
-Health information

Ongoing evaluation requires a minimal presence in 60% of the classes time and includes the accomplishment of:
- An individual or group work that can be set - 20%;
- An individual test - 80% and a minimum score of 10 points.
The assessment is performed in two phases. 1st- the participant will be in the continuous evaluation system. 2nd- it corresponds to a final exam that will represent 100% of the final score obtained, in this case it will not be considered the continuous evaluation result.

1. Characterize the conceptual framework of health systems, funding mechanisms and organizational models of care.
2. Understand the specificities of the models of organization and management of health organizations.
3. Design draft strategic management and change management plans in healthcare organizations

1. Health systems.
2. The specificity of the health sector.
3. The structure of the NHS.
4. Strategic management in health care.
4.1.Transformation of network hospital.
4.2.Reform of primary health care.
4.3. National network of integrated care.
5. Trends of the health system.

Ongoing evaluation requires a minimal presence in 60% of the classes time and includes the accomplishment of: An individual or group work - 20%; An individual test - 80% and a minimum score of 10 points.
The assessment is performed in two phases. The 1st phase the participant will be in the continuous evaluation system. The 2nd phase corresponds to a final exam that will represent 100% of the final score obtained, in this case it will not be considered the continuous evaluation result.

1. To characterize the different dimensions of clinical governance
2. Identify appropriate practices to promote safety in health care
3. Identify principles ethical principles in the health

1 Introduction to Clinical Governance
2 Basic Elements of Clinical Governance
3. Safety Promotion in Health Care
4. Clinical Management, Knowledge and Innovation
5. Ethics in Health
6. Doctors and Society - Professionalism

Ongoing evaluation requires a minimal presence in 60% of the classes time and includes the accomplishment of:
- An individual or group work - 20%
- An individual test - 80% and a minimum score of 10 points.
The assessment is performed in two phases. In 1st phase the participant will be in the continuous evaluation system. The 2nd phase it corresponds to a final exam that will represent 100% of the final score obtained, in this case it will not be considered the continuous evaluation result.

- Understand the nature and complexity of communication in organizations and health promotion programs;
- Identify and manage the diverse realities of health communication;
- Identify the importance of the brand as a competitive value in health;
- developing awareness to achieve effective communication in the health organizations;
- understanding and managing realities of marketing and communication in the health organizations;
- Understand the ethical implications of health marketing and communication;

- The importance of marketing in health
- The Brand-Driven Health Marketing Strategy
- The importance of communication at all levels of Health
- Communication problems in teams and health organizations
- Interpersonal communication in the health professions
- Patient-centered approach as a way to minimize the miscommunication between healthcare professionals and patients
- Strategic management and communication in health organizations (lecture)
- Public interventions and professional communication (seminar)
- Ethical Implications of Health Communication

Ongoing evaluation requires a minimal presence in 60% of the classes time and includes the accomplishment of: An individual or group work - 30%;
- An individual test - 70% and a minimum score of 10 points.
The assessment is performed in two phases. In 1st phase the participant will be in the continuous evaluation system. The 2nd phase it corresponds to a final exam that will represent 100% of the final score obtained, in this case it will not be considered the continuous.

At the end of the course students should:
A)Know the basic dimensions of logistics and supply chain management (SCM);
B)Understand the healthcare contexts where one should apply the basic dimensions of logistics and supply chain management;
c) Recognize the tangible and intangible logistics systems in healthcare contexts;
D) Know the fundamentals of: supplier qualification; distribution systems and warehouse systems in healthcare contexts;
E)Know the main topics in terms of capacity in health units

1. Logistics and Supply Chain Management
2. Supplier Qualification and Sourcing Principles
3. Distributions Systems and General Warehouse Principles in Healthcare Systems; Inventory Management in Healthcare Systems
4. Capacity and Layout

ongoing evaluation requires a minimal presence in 60% of the classes time and includes the accomplishment of: Participation in class - 20%; An individual test - 80% and a minimum score of 10 points.
The assessment is performed in two phases. The 1rst phase the participant will be in the continuous evaluation system. the 2nd phase it corresponds to a final exam that will represent 100% of the final score obtained, in this case it will not be considered the continuous evaluation result.

At the end of this unit`s term, the student must be able to understand the concepts to:
- Characterize the several forms of ehealth and its historic evolution
- Identify the ehealth technologies
- Identify the ehealth applications (current and in the future)
- Identify the aspects of privacy, confidentiality, and security of data
- Identify the ethic and legal aspects

1. Forms of ehealth
2. Historic evolution
3. Ehealth technologies
4. Ehealth applications
5. Privacy, confidentiality, and security of data
6. Ethic and legal aspects

Ongoing evaluation requires a minimal presence in 60% of the classes time and includes the accomplishment of: An individual or group work - 20%; An individual test - 80% and a minimum score of 10 points.
The assessment is performed in two phases. The 1st phase the participant will be in the continuous evaluation system. The 2nd phase it corresponds to a final exam that will represent 100% of the final score obtained, in this case it will not be considered the continuous evaluation result.

At the end of this unit`s term, the student must be able to understand the concepts to:
- Define the most appropriate change process in each situation in healthcare organizations
- Define the steps of change management in healthcare organizations
- Identify the resistance forms to change in healthcare organizations
- Define the strategies to manage change in healthcare organizations

1. Process of change in healthcare organizations
2. Steps of change management in healthcare organizations
3. Resistance to change in healthcare organizations
4. Strategies of change in healthcare organizations
5. Successful and unsuccessful cases in change management in healthcare organizations

ongoing evaluation requires a minimal presence in 60% of the classes time and includes the accomplishment of: An individual or group work - 35%; An individual test - 65% and a minimum score of 10 points.
The assessment is performed in two phases. The 1st phase the participant will be in the continuous evaluation system. The 2nd phase it corresponds to a final exam that will represent 100% of the final score obtained, in this case it will not be considered the continuous evaluation result.