Advocacy and Decesion-making in Healthcare Services

Course Code:

CH-705Β

Semester:

7th-semester CH

Specialization Category:

ΜΕ

Course Hours:

ECTS:

4


 

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims to familiarize students with the main methods and techniques of community advocacy and decision-making in health services. Emphasis is placed on the interdisciplinary nature of the field. The course material covers a range of evidence-based decision-making and advocacy methods-tools with the aim of providing students with the necessary knowledge to help them participate in decision-making in health services.

Upon successful completion of the course, the student is able to:

  • knows basic principles and concepts of the advocacy and decision-making process
  • understands the decision-making process
  • distinguish the differences of decision-making in organizations and at the individual level
  • breaks down the decision-making process through the rational model into individual steps
  • knows the types of decisions in health services
  • recognizes the factors that facilitate or hinder the decision-making process
  • chooses and implements the most appropriate approach to address the issue at hand
  • participates in the decision-making process in health services
  • advocates for individuals and vulnerable community populations within health services

 

GENERAL SKILLS

 

  • Search, analysis and synthesis of data and information, using the necessary technologies
  • Adaptation to new situations
  • Decision making
  • Autonomous work
  • Teamwork
  • Work in an interdisciplinary environment
  • Project planning and management
  • Exercise criticism and self-criticism
  • Promotion of free, creative and inductive thinking

 

COURSE CONTENT

 

  • Basic concepts and principles of advocacy and decision-making
  • Methodology of the decision-making process and advocacy approaches
  • Rational model
  • The role of health scientists in advocacy and decision-making
  • Problem structuring methodologies
  • Decision making criteria. Evidence-based decision making
  • Participation of the community and associations in decision-making

 

STUDENT EVALUATION

Written final exam (100%) including:

Multiple choice questions
Short answer questions
Development questions

 

RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • Golub A. L. (2007). Ορθολογική λήψη αποφάσεων. Φιλομάθεια, Αθήνα
  • Πραστάκος Γ. (2006). Διοικητική επιστήμη και λήψη επιχειρηματικών αποφάσεων. Σταμούλης, Αθήνα
  • Ματσατσίνης Ν, Ζοπουνίδης Κ. (2007]. Συστήματα αποφάσεων µε πολλαπλά κριτήρια. Κλειδάριθµος ΕΠΕ
  • Clemen RT. (1997). Making hard decisions: an introduction to decision analysis. Duxbury, Pacific Grove.
  • Rosenhead J.(2005). Problem Structuring Methods. Κλειδάριθμος
  • Checkland Peter (2008). Soft Systems Methodology. Παπασωτηρίου

 

EUDOXUS

  • ΟΡΘΟΛΟΓΙΚΗ ΛΗΨΗ ΑΠΟΦΑΣΕΩΝ, GOLUB ANDREW Λεπτομέρειες
  • Διοικητική επιστήμη – Λήψη επιχειρηματικών αποφάσεων στην κοινωνία της πληροφορίας, Πραστάκος Γρηγόρης Π. Λεπτομέρειες
  •  ΣΥΣΤΗΜΑΤΑ ΑΠΟΦΑΣΕΩΝ ΜΕ ΠΟΛΛΑΠΛΑ ΚΡΙΤΗΡΙΑ, ΝΙΚΟΛΑΟΣ ΜΑΤΣΑΤΣΙΝΗΣ, ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΣ ΖΟΠΟΥΝΙΔΗΣ Λεπτομέρειες