Administration of Health Units

Organizational unit: School of Social Sciences
duration: 2 semesters
60 ECTS (60 mandatory and 0 optative in UCS; )
Establishment/DGES Codes: 0604/E111

Introduction

The Management Department of the University of Évora in collaboration with the São João de Deus Nursing School, with ARS Alentejo I.P. as a partner, prepared a postgraduate training course in Administration of Health organizations, aimed at improving the skills in the management areas for primary, hospital and continuing health care professionals.

 The course main objectives are:

  • Provide students with adequate and solid scientific training in the area of management;
  • Enhance problem-solving ability and create solutions in non-routine and unpredictable situations;
  • To develop argumentation skills and to make judgments of value in context of limited and / or incomplete information;
  • To stimulate the transdisciplinary and integrated reasoning in organizations, enhancing leadership capacities;
  • Strengthen cultural, social, ethical and citizenship values, which are the guarantor of cohesion and social stability;
  • Develop the capacity for implementation and use of Management information and communication technologies;
  • To develop a culture of constant application of ethics and professional deontology;
  • Develop skills in the field of learning in a self-oriented or autonomous way.

Professional Careers

Intermediate Management positions, Administration functions, entrepreneurs, Specialized Technical Advisory and Consulting functions in organizations of the health area of primary, hospital and continuing care, both in private and public sector.

Associate Director(s)

Manuel Agostinho Matos Fernandes
Paulo Resende da Silva

Gestor Académico

Maria João Doutor Zorro

Plan of Studies

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