• The concepts of planning, organization, management and control applied to health related context
• The concept of health management
• Main models of organizational structures
• The departmental organization
• The health organization as “complex organization”
• The concepts of input, output and outcome to health related context
• The main goals of health system
• The main models of health systems
• Principles of health economics, main health economics indexes, classification of health costs, main techniques of health economics evaluation
• Main factors influencing health expenditure
• The relationship between health expenditure and health of the population
• The general and pharmaceutical expenditure in Italy
• The Italian National Health Service: evolution, principles, organization and financing
• The concept of "basic level of assistance" (LEA)
• Hospital discharge sheet (SDO) and Diagnosis related Group (DRG)
• The Intermediate Assistance Observation Form (SOSIA) and overview of the organization of the social-health system
• The assessment of quality of health services
• The concepts of benchmarking and case-mix
• Principles of Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and Hospital Based Health Technology Assessment (HB-HTA).
• Main models of hospital organization
• The concept of management in health organization; the Local Healthcare Agencies and the Hospitals Agencies
• Organization of the Lombardy Region Health System