Health Management (Health Institutions Management) has been established in response to the community’s need for specialists who work on planning, collecting, retrieving, and transferring health information to improve the quality of healthcare services. There is an increasing need for a trained workforce in healthcare management due to the growing number of public and private healthcare institutions and the rising need to efficiently manage them using modern technologies and tools while leveraging limited resources to provide higher-quality service by reducing costs and increasing productivity. This field combines health sciences and information technologies to address all problems that may hinder the path of advanced healthcare management in both public and private facilities.
Mission of Health Management Graduates
- Utilizing the best means to ensure efficiency of performance in healthcare facilities
- Managing, operating, and planning healthcare institutions and organizations
- Efficiently planning and implementing the needs of employees in healthcare institutions and monitoring their work
- Providing necessary equipment for healthcare institutions with high quality and efficiency
Curriculum for Health Management Major
The study duration is four years for the Bachelor’s degree, and the curriculum in most Turkish universities includes a variety of study programs, noting that the content may vary from one university to another. Therefore, students should check the academic content (Course Description) on the university’s website where they wish to enroll.
First Academic Year
- Information Technology
- Fundamentals of Economics
- Management Concepts
- Business Mathematics in Healthcare Institutions
Second Academic Year
- Biostatistics
- Health Economics
- Cost Accounting in Healthcare Facilities
- Information and Knowledge about Various Diseases
- Healthcare Services Management
- Introduction to Marketing
Third Academic Year
- Organizational Behavior
- Financial Management
- Health Policy and Planning
- Information Management
- Risk Management
- Sanitation and Waste Management in Healthcare Institutions
- First Aid
- Principles of Nutrition
- Human Resources Management
- Epidemiology
Fourth Academic Year
- Health Law and Legislation
- Ethical Principles and Responsibilities
- Quality Management in Healthcare Services
- Communications Management in Healthcare Organizations
- Disaster Management
- Health Sociology
- Graduation Project, which involves conducting a research study in a specific area related to healthcare institution management
Job Opportunities
Graduates work in:
- Ministry of Health
- Hospitals and other healthcare institutions
- Rehabilitation centers
- Academic positions in universities
- Research centers and institutions providing home healthcare services
- Consulting firms
- Health insurance companies and non-governmental organizations working in the health sector
- Industrial companies producing drugs and medical devices in healthcare research centers
