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August 24, 2009
Summer short courses in Health Economics and M.Sc. Programmes : Institute for International Health and Development, Queen Margaret University, UK
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Applying health economics in managing health services: Wednesday-Friday 12-14 August 2009
- Economic evaluation of health care: Tuesday-Thursday 18-20 August 2009
- Economics of health systems: Monday-Wednesday 24-26 August 2009
Each of the courses is free standing but participants may wish to attend two or all three courses. None of the courses assume any prior knowledge of economics.
For further information please go online
M.Sc. in Health Systems
“Strengthened health systems, ideally based on primary health care, are indeed the route to greater efficiency and fairness in health care, and greater security in the health sector and beyond.” Margaret Chan, Director General WHO, 2008
Are you seeking a career in health planning, management or policy advice? This new MSc programme in Health Systems will equip you with the requisite skills to advance your career.
This programme aims to enhance participants’ understanding of how to make health systems work better. This implies the provision of sufficient resources, the appropriate distribution of those resources and the uptake of available resources by those intended to use them.
It also involves managing multiple players in public and private, formal and informal roles and developing strategies with the best chance of bringing about positive effects.
This programme is new for 2009 and will equip its graduates with the necessary skills for careers in health planning, management and policy advice.
For further information please go online
MSc in Human Resources for Health
Much attention has been focused on the shortages of numbers of clinical health professionals, but it is increasingly recognized that these problems are worsened by a parallel crisis of effective human resource management.
Are you seeking a career in human resource management, strategy or policy advice? Do you want to help solve the escalating human resource crisis in health in your country or health care organization?
This new MSc programme will equip you with the requisite skills to advance your career in the health or social sectors.
The new MSc is an adaptation of one formerly offered by Keele University – the faculty from Keele are now associated with QMU and will be delivering key elements of this programme.
The MSc. In Human Resources for Health is designed for experienced graduates or health professionals keen to gain an understanding of how to mobilize scarce human resources to strengthen health systems internationally. The programme aims to equip participants with the necessary skills to achieve optimally sustainable deployment of personnel and ensure that users of health services are served by the most highly skilled and efficient workforce possible.
