Health Management - Course Descriptions

First semesterSYB 101        Introduction to Management       3 (Introduction of General Business)
General concepts and terms in business. Setting up business. Business sizes, business functions. Kinds of business. Phases of setting up business. 

SYB 103   Introduction to Accounting    3 (Introduction of Financial Accounting)
Concepts and principles of accounting. Account types, sizes of business, bookkeeping in balance sheet system. Opening entries, daily entries, closing entries. Records types in accounting. 

SYB 105         Behavioural Sciences           3
Behaviour theories, relationships among sociology, anthropology and psychology, behavioural research methods and techniques, society, social structure, socialisation, social institutes, social mobility, urbanisation, population, language, communication, social behaviours and control, behavioural patterns, norms, traditions, social status, defence mechanisms, mental health and disorders, implementation fields of psychology. 

SYB 107         Introduction to Economics          2
This course deals with the microeconomics issues. Microeconomics investigates how an individual makes decision as a consumer, how a unique firm makes decision as a producer and how their decision effect each other in the market.  In this frame throughout the course topics as follows are examined: Capitalism and free market, full employment market, the theory of the consumer choices, production technologies and costs, production and price in the market.  

SYB 109         Introduction to Computer             3
Computer hardware, general introduction information and working principles, Dos, Windows Operating System. 

SYB 111         Deontology and History of Health      2
Definition, ethical problems during performing health profession, legal rules, contemporary medical ethics and its principles and concepts, main issues and problems related with medical ethics, historical development of health and patient concepts, development of health professions, health problems and improvements in treatment, emergence of modern medicine. 

TD   101         Turkish           Language     2 

AİİT 101   Atatürk’s Principles and History of Revolution 2 

YD 101           Foreign Language   4 

BE   101         Sports-Fine Arts      0 

SYB                Elective Course       3  

Second Semester

SYB 102         General Management            3         
(General Business)
Business management and functions. Marketing, finance, decision making process, production management, purchasing, inventories. Job analyses, job simplification methods, job evaluation, achievement evaluation (personnel management).  

SYB 104         General          Accounting   3    
(Financial Accounting)
Auditing of account records (internal audit). Inventory procedures. Depreciation accounting. Profit determination, profit sharing. Year and procedures. Capital account increasing. Bookkeeping on the business account basis.  

SYB 106         Management             3
Elements of administration. Evolution of organisation and management concepts. Organisation (organisational structure, elements of organisation, system characteristics of organisation). The function of administration (production management, personnel services management, general services management, budget management). The administrative process (managerial decision making or problem solving, planning, organising, co-ordinating, communicating, controlling). 

SYB 108         Economics                3
This course deals with the macroeconomics issues. Macroeconomics investigates how economic growth and fluctuations occur. It also deals with the determinations of the unemployment, inflation and economic growth. 

SYB 110  Introduction to Computer Office Programme  2
Control table on windows, Network structure, Word (Office package program), Powerpoint. 

SYB 112         Introduction to Legislation      2  
(Introduction of Law)
Knowledge of basic law, rules of regulating social life, law and law orders, sources of law, branches of the law, and their contents, application, interpretation and classification of law, law making techniques, codification of law. Rights, subject of rights, contents of rights, acquiring of rights, protection of rights and termination of rights. Courts and judgement, law relations, cases under trial and their types. Concept of justice.  

AİİT 102  Atatürk’s Principles and History of Revolution    2 

YD 102           Foreign Language               4 

BE   102         Sports-Fine Arts      0 

SYB                Elective Course       2  

Third Semester

SYB  201        Health  Sociology, Psychology and Anthropology                  3
General Introduction and Overview; Introduction to Sociology of Health; Social and Cultural Construction of Health and Illness; Inequalities in Health by Social Class, Gender, Ethnicity, and Age; Conceptualisation of the Sick Role; Doctor-Patient Interaction; Human Relations and Professionalisation in Institution of Medicine; Bureaucracy and Social Relationship in Hospital Setting;  Main Sociological Perspectives on Health Care (Marxism, Functionalism, Feminism, Postmodernism, Symbolic Interactions); Urbanisation, Migration and Health; Introduction to Medical Anthropology; The Relationship between Culture and Health-Illness System; Introduction to Health Psychology; Health Behaviour and Attitude Change; Suicide; Social Isolation of Marginalized Groups; Sociological Evaluation of the Health Management.

SYB  203        Health and Social Security Systems     3
Concept of health system, methods of analysing health systems, main health systems, Turkish health system, concept of social security, rising and historical background, socio-economic requirements, different social security system and application models, financing, social security and private insurance, the rise and development of social security system in Turkey, constitutional bases, current situation and institutionalisation, problems and solutions of current situation, recent developments in the world and in the country related to the field. 

SYB  205        Organisational Behaviour    3
Science of organisational behaviour. The historical evolution of organisational behaviour. Elements of organisational behaviour. Personnel (personality and characteristics of personnel). Organisational structure (duty and personnel, hierarchy and personnel, work flow and personnel). Organisational culture (organisational culture and personnel, organisational role and personnel). 

SYB  207        Computer Office Programme       3
Excel (the program of accounting table), Access data base program, Internet, Network concept, Searching motors and to get e-mail. 

SYB  209        Introduction to Bio-statistics      2
Basic concepts and principles of statistics; data collection and classification, tables and graphics, distributions, measuring and analytical evaluation. 

YD       Foreign Language               4 

SYB     Elective Course                   2 

Fourth Semester

SYB  202        Human Relations in Management           3
Quality and past of human relations in management, theories of leadership, theories of managerial behaviour, managerial efficiency, organisational efficiency, making the organisation fruitful, developing the team conscious, providing worker’s adaptation, managing conflict, renewing organisation. 

SYB  204        Health Management                      2
Management process and managerial roles, health care delivery systems, health services technology, organising models, strategy planing and marketing, relationships between organisations, managerial problem solving and decision making, quality and product development, auditing, risk management, resource allocation, leadership, motivation, communication, human resource management. 

SYB 206 Special Statistics Methods in Health Sciences    2
(Statistical Methods Specialised for the Health Field
Measures to indicate health status of the community. Interpretation, comparison with other countries and determination of health problems to be prioritised. Decision for services to support solutions. Databases, demographical events, population pyramid and interpretation. Analytical thinking and objective decision making capability. 

SYB  208        Epidemiology                       2
Definition of epidemiology; the importance and position of epidemiology in the medicine and health management science; the application of epidemiological methodology; descriptive, cross-sectional, case-control, cohort, experimental and methodological researches and their special features; the importance and priority of health problems; their reasons and the prophylactic approaches to solution of them. 

SYB  210        Medical Documentation                 3 
This course involves patient and health care data; data collection; access and retention of paper-based records; methods of information storage and retrieval systems; registries in health care organisation; international coding and classification systems on diseases; quantitative and qualitative evaluation of health information management; collection, computation, presentation and analysis of health administrative statistics including definitions, sources and types of reporting systems; evaluation of health information systems in Turkey. Students work on a group project, make oral presentations and complete a technical report. 

SYB  212        Bio-statistics           2
Analytical analyses using parametric and non parametric significant tests. 

YD    202        Foreign Language   4 

SYB                Elective Course       2 

Fifth Semester

SYB  301    Management for Preventive Health Services 2
Definition of public health and science branches; the classification of the health services; preventive health services (aimed at person and environment); primary health services; the coverage of preventive health services; its position and importance in health system; application areas; strategic approach, planning, organisation and evaluation. 

SYB  303        Health Policy          2
Historical evolution of world’s health policies, philosophic and ideological background, contemporary developments, methods and applications of policy analysis, investigation of Turkish health policies. 

SYB  305        Health Management Legislation 2  
(Health Administrative Law)
Interactions and relations between health and law concepts. Importance and place of the health law in the public and private law. Responsibilities, rights and duties of the health institutions and organisations. Basic political and legal principles in the Turkish administrative system. 

SYB  307        Health Economics   3
This course deals with the applications of the economic issues in the health sector. In this frame throughout the lecture topics examined are as follows: The definition and development of health economics; health economics system and its analyse; the relationship between the economic growth - development and health sector; economic planning and planning of the health sector; health sector financing; health expenditures; economic evaluation methods in the health sector. 

SYB  309        Human Resources Management 2
The course contains the role of human resources in an organisation, work-force planning, skill mix, job analysis, job assessment and job evaluation, recruitment and selection, performance management incorporating concepts such as motivational systems, appraisal employee development and mentoring, career planning and management, labour relations and collective bargaining. 

SYB  311   Quantitative Methods in Health Enterprises   2
(Quantitative Methods in Health Care Organisations)
Applying Mathematical models to increase efficiency of managerial decisions; Quantitative methods in managerial decision making; Applying programming techniques on health services’ allocation and problems. 

SYB  313        Health Insurance    2
This course topics include: health insurance terminology; structure of social and private health insurance, the role of health insurance in the health care financing; paying doctors and hospitals under health insurance; organisation and administration of health insurance; Turkish health insurance system and some general lessons from the experiences of other countries. 

YD    301        Vocational Foreign Language     2 

SYB                Elective Course       3 

Sixth Semester

SYB  302        Health Planning       3
This course focuses on the theories, methods, history and the application of planning in health services field. It also reviews health needs and demands, models of health services utilisation, community participation and desantralization. 

SYB  304        Health Audit and Control      2  
(Health Auditing)
Auditing concept, its importance, contemporary auditing methods, evaluation, differentiation from traditional auditing methods, auditing as a component of education and planing. 

SYB  306        Management Legislation   2  
(Business Law) 
Legal transactions concerning the establishment and operations of a healthcare business enterprise and the arising liability; establishment, administration and representation of commercial companies, their liabilities, their control and liquidation; negotiable instruments, drafts/bills of exchange, cheques, promissory notes and their features; their position and importance in Turkish Law; concept of insurance; contracts, sorts of contracts; employer-labour relations, their reciprocal rights and duties, strike, lockout, collective bargaining 

SYB  308        Health Information Systems                    3
The course provides the future health-care administrator knowledge as follows : management oversight of the design, installation, and operation of information systems in a health care setting; productive utilisation of information for strategic planning; executive decision making; and managerial control. Specific topics include: computer and computer network terminology and concepts; access and retention of image-based records-a unifying principle; information  technology for health care; health information system applications;  health care information processing standards; features and components comprising an integrated health information system. Students work on a group project, make oral presentations and complete a technical report. 

SYB  310        Cost Accounting in Health Enterprises     3
(Cost Accounting in Health Care Management)
Definition and objectives of cost accounting, cost accounting, methods of cost determination, the elements of cost, manufacturing expenses, cost statements, direct cost system, cost accounting procedures, factors effecting cost, cost accounting per patient, budgeting.    

YD    302        Vocational Foreign Language    2 

SYB     Elective Course       3 

Seventh Semester

SYB  401        Total Quality Management           2
Total Quality Management, description and history, principles, working system, quality management in health services, quality confidence, quality control and application in health services.

SYB  403     Research Methods in Health Sciences   3
The definition of research; research types; the factors of influencing research; datum, the methods of data collection and data features; stages of research, planning of research; population, sample and sampling; design of questionnaire and questionnaire features; writing  as a report of research; the development of scientific think of ability. 

SYB  405        Seminar in Health Management             4 
(Health Care Management Seminar)
Explanation and discussion of popular topics of interest. Seminar subjects are variable. Co-ordinator of the seminar and seminar contents will be determined by a commission. Students will be acknowledged about definition, method and specifics of the seminar. 

SYB  407            Health Management Internship  3   
(Health Care Management Application)
This course includes and extends the practical studies on health care management in health institutions. In this respect, students have opportunity to do some practical studies in relation with their theoretical studies. There are two types application training. One of them is a summer training course after the third class during the summer holiday. The other is for the senior students during the education period.       

YD    401            Vocational Foreign Language              2 
SYB                Elective Course                   2 

Eighth Semester

SYB  402        Marketing in Health Enterprises              2    
(Marketing for Health Care Organisations)
This course aims to develop fundamental knowledge of and about marketing and health care Marketing as a field of study and provoke critical thinking about the field. Readings and discussions examine the historical development of marketing thought and theory, as well as contemporary issues, alternative perspectives, and critical insights. This course also provides the students with an understanding of marketing planning and strategy from international, multinational and global perspectives. 

SYB  404        Strategic Management in Health Enterprises              2
(Strategic Management of Health Care Organisation)
This course involves strategic management process in health care organisation; assessing and analysing the internal and external environment; mission, vision and values; strategic marketing; information systems and financial systems; strategic management of human resources; control of the strategy. 

SYB  406        Health Management Internship                 6(Health Care Management Application)
This course includes and extends the practical studies on health care management in health institutions. In this respect, students have opportunity to do some practical studies in relation with their theoretical studies. There are two types application training. One of them is a summer training course after the third class during the summer holiday. The other is for the senior students during the education period. 

YD    402             Vocational Foreign Language     2 

SYB                Elective  Course                  2 

Electives

SYB 5101      First Aid                     3
Meaning of the first aid, role of the first aid in terms of saving the life of human; saving the life in the accident or in the dangerous situations, taking  the precautions for preventing the situation that become bad, giving the right decision to practice successfully. 

SYB 5102      Environmental Health        2
Environmental factors that influence public health. Air, water, soil and nutrient pollution, risks due to fluid and solid waste, nutrient control, precautions to improve environmental health. 

SYB 5103      Introduction to Health Terminology   3
The concepts and the terms in relation with health sciences.                  

SYB 5104      Health Terminology                       2
The concepts and the terms used in the medical science.       

SYB 5201      Occupational Health and Safety in the Workplace          2
Protective and preventive measures in the workplaces; the legal, social and organisational aspects of occupational health in the workplace; risk concept and risk assessment, occupational health organisations in Turkey and in the world. 

SYB 5202      Public Relations       2
This course contains definition and objective of public relations, public relations techniques, importance of public relations in health care,  basic elements of a public relations programme in a health care organisation, public relations applications in health care (projects and activities), responsibilities of the hospital public relations director, marketing and advertising. 

SYB 5203  Management for Ageing Home Care Services 2
(Ageing and Management of Home Care Services)
Health and social problems of elderly people; the solution of geriatric problems and different organisations directed at solution; alternative care in health organisations; home care services; the organisation and management of home care services. 

SYB 5204      In-Service Education        2   
(In-Service Training)
Concept of in-service training, determining in-service training need, planning of in-service training, preparing education program in in-service training, applying in-service training, evaluation of success in in-service training. 

SYB 5301      Introduction to Hospital Finance Management           3
(Introduction to Financial Management of Hospitals)
Financial management, financial management organisation, financial planning, investment decisions, financial analysis of enterprises, capital stock management, dept management, receivable management, introduction to financial tables, balance sheet, income sheet, fund capital change table, business capital and change table, cash and fund tables, financial analysis techniques, comparative analysis, trend percentages, profitability analysis. 

SYB 5302      Patient and Human Rights      3
Evaluation of patient rights within the context of human rights; development of patient rights within the history of health; the condition of the patient and human rights both in the world and in our country; current laws about patient and human rights and their implementation.  

SYB 5303    Hospital Organisation and Management    3
Development of hospitals, goals, functions, classification, its place and organising in health system, need assessment of hospital and bed, hospital planing, number of beds, personnel need assessment, hospital architecture and standard development, hospital administration and management, hospital management regulations. 

SYB 5304      Occupational Health and Safety        3
The conceptual evolution of the right of healthy working; the legal, social and organisational aspects of occupational health; the evaluation of working environment; risk concept and risk assessment, occupational health practices in Turkey and in the world. 

SYB 5305      Advanced Research Methods in Health Sciences          2
(Advanced Research Methods in the Health Fields)
The planning and execution of a research as practical; analysing and evaluation of data; to interpret  and draw up a report of findings.  

SYB 5306      Financial Management in Hospital    3
(Financial Management of Hospitals)
Analysing of financial tables and usage of financial tables in decision making in hospitals, hospital financial organisation, hospital revenues, price setting, preparing hospital budget. 

SYB 5401      Management Psychology  2
(Psychology of Organisation)
Historical Development of Organisational Psychology; Personality and Personal Differences; Social Groups and Differences Between Groups in Organisations; Beliefs and Attitudes in Organisations; Measurement of Attitudes; Moral and Organisational Behaviour; Group Dynamics; Responses to Change;  Psychological Problems and Complaints; Monotony in Work and Its Prevention; Problem of Absenteeism in Work and Staff Circuit; Physical Problems of Working Environment; Hierarchical Relationships in Organisations; Participation to Administration, Discipline, Leadership, Motivation and Conflict. 

SYB 5402      Computer Presentation Programme      2
The aim of this course is to gain  knowledge and skill about preparation of educational subjects as  computer bases  to make more effective presentation.  

SYB 5403      Management Sociology                 2
(Sociology of Organisation)General Introduction and
Overview; The Relationship between Social and Organisational Structure; Modern Society and Formal Organisations; Major Sociological Approaches to Understanding Organisations; Organisational Structure; Organisational Processes; Organisational Environments; Organisational Culture; Social Relations and Conflict in Organisations; Management in Industry; Globalisation and Multinational Corporations. 

SYB 5404      Total Quality Management in Health Services 2
The application of total quality management concept to the field of health services. Increasing quality and productivity. Patient and employee satisfaction. 

SYB 5405      Organisational Effectiveness          2
Definition of concept. Perspectives organisational effectiveness Productivity. Teamwork. Job satisfaction and adjustment of personnel. Conflict management. Innovating and organisational development. 

SYB 5407      Public Health                        2
The definition of public health; science branches of public health; the position of public health in medicine; the environmental factors influencing health and be protected, human and human cology; public health services aimed at individual and environment; family planning, immunisation and chemoprophylaxis; management and organisation of public health services; fundamental principles of health protection and health improvement.