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HST5502 Current Issues
SCHOOL OF EXERCISE AND HEALTH SCIENCES
Credit Points: 20
Prerequisites:
HST5109 Fundamentals of Management and People Skills
HST5160 Planning and Performance Management Skills
HST5311 Resource Management Skills
HST5312 Managing and Using Information
 
Description:

This unit examines key current health service management and policy issues from an historical, operational, and strategic perspective. Changes in health service policy and delivery and historical changes of management are outlined. Attention focuses on current professional paradigms and management models (e.g. owner, purchaser, provider models). Selected topics of student concern will include accountability, evaluation, quality assurance, accreditation and the implications of modern technology for managerial decision making.

This Unit is part of the following Courses / Unit Sets
U85Master of Health Services Management
 
 
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Last Updated - Higher Education: 11/18/2004