Distance degree programs for Adults & Professionals.
Health Care Administration Online - Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
Faculty of Natural Health Science via distance learning
Health Care Administration via distance learning
In today’s highly technological and rapidly changing world of health care and hospital management, success demands leaders with a strong theoretical foundation in the principles of management, technology, legal and ethical issues, finance, economics, and human relations. This program reinforces the critical and creative thinking skills needed to plan, finance, coordinate, and evaluate health services. Students develop the skills necessary to present health offers that are both competitive and of high quality.
Academic Supervisor : Monish Gunawardana
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Health Care Administration Online via distance learning
Specialist, Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor - Health Care Administration.
This module is applicable to Specialist, Expert, Bachelor's, Master's & Ph.D. (Doctor) Degree Programs. This academic program is designed at the postgraduate level (Master’s or Doctoral). This module may also be adapted to complete the course requirements of Specialist, Expert Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree. A further option is the enrollment into each of the courses listed within this specialization module. This module may be combined or completed with other modules from this faculty. For example: Diplomacy - Disaster Management - Institutional Relations - Peace Studies - Political Science - Protocol & Etiquette - Public Affairs - Public Health - Public Policy & Administration - Sustainable Development .
Specialist - Expert Diploma - Health Care Administration Online
Tuition Fee: 1.050 Euros (1.350 US$) ... 1.470 Euros (1.890 US$).
Specialist - Expert Diploma Online: 15 ... 21 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Health Care Administration via distance learning = 36 Academic credits - Select 5 courses for the online diploma of Specialist or 7 courses for the Expert Diploma from the total of courses from the specialization module.
Bachelor's Degree - Health Care Administration Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 3.510 Euros (4.420 US$) ... Max. 6.800 Euros (8.700 US$).
Bachelor's Degree Online: 130 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Health Care Administration via distance learning = 36 Academic credits + 60 credits in General Education (may be transferred from previous education and professional experience) + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Natural Health Science from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Public Health.
Master's Degree - Health Care Administration Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 4.680 Euros (6.120 US$) ... Max. 7.020 Euros (9.180 US$).
Master's Degree Online: 36 ... 54 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Health Care Administration via distance learning = 36 Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Natural Health Science from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Public Health. + 13 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).
Doctor Ph.D. Degree - Health Care Administration Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 5.850 Euros (7.650 US$) ... Max. 9.360 Euros (12.240 US$).
Doctor Ph.D. Degree Online: 45 ... 72 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Health Care Administration via distance learning = 36 Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Natural Health Science from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Public Health. + 18 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).
Payment plans are available upon request up to 36 monthly installments. More info...
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Health Care Administration Online
Courses list (each subject accounts for 3 academic credits):
1 BIU Earned Credit = 1 USA Semester Credit (15 hours of learning) = 2 ECTS Credits (30 hours of study).
You may study any subject as an independent online continuing education course. More info...
Hygiene & Safety
This course introduces the principles of industrial and community hygiene and safety. It examines the anticipation, recognition, evaluation, and control of hazards to health and safety. It covers control methods and hygiene sampling equipment. Also, it helps developing skills in occupational health and safety hazard recognition in a variety of cases.
Academic Supervisor: Monish Gunawardana
Long Term Care
This course explores the management of nursing homes and other long-term facilities. It includes supervisory policies, labor relations, human relations, gerontology and geriatrics, nutrition and housekeeping, patient care, reimbursement policies, purchasing, inventory, and financial analysis.
Academic Supervisor: Monish Gunawardana
International Health Systems
This course interprets health problems among various populations in multicultural settings. It compares health care systems in developing and industrialized countries in relation to other social systems; public/private component analyses; and health care methods and finance. It also examines major health problems of underdeveloped, developing, and emerging nations.
Academic Supervisor: Daniel Scott Janik
Women & Children Health Policy
This course gives a historical account of roles played by government and health policy development for mothers and children, family planning, maternal and infant health, preschool, school-age, and adolescent health. It also addresses the biological mechanisms that underpin human reproduction, infertility, and contraception.
Academic Supervisor: Monish Gunawardana
Gerontology Health Policy
This course explores biological, psychological, and social issues in aging; including cognitive change with age and the social impact of increasingly older population demographics. It provides a multidisciplinary approach to the health care needs of the elderly, namely medication use, nutrition, health care agencies, and roles of individual health care professionals.
Academic Supervisor: Monish Gunawardana
Infectious Diseases
This course explores the methods used in epidemiology and their application to the critical appraisal of clinical, epidemiological, and health administration for evidence-based management of health care organizations, improvement of delivery of health services, and for creating health policies. An emphasis will be placed on understanding the relationships between the host, the parasite, and the environment in infectious disease investigations.
Academic Supervisor: Jose W. Rodriguez
Health Technology
This course provides an overview of the methods used in health technology assessment, including cost-benefit, cost-effectiveness, cost-utility analysis, current controversies, successes, and failures in implementing information technology. Medical informatics concerns the representation, organization, and manipulation of biomedical information.
Academic Supervisor: Daniel Scott Janik
Health Program Planning
This course presents a systems approach to the planning of effective health services to meet the needs of communities. Plans include effective and culturally appropriate implementation strategies, managing planning process, work plans, stakeholders, negotiation, and working with groups.
Academic Supervisor: Monish Gunawardana
Health Services Management
This course applies management thinking to healthcare organizations, from hospitals to biotech companies. It explores health economics, social aspects of medicine, bioethics, health services financing, public health, and epidemiology and their impact upon the health care industry and the delivery of health care services.
Academic Supervisor: Monish Gunawardana
Health Practice Management
This course describes the skills needed to build a successful health sciences practice. It explores all the personal, professional, and ethical aspects of daily practice to ensure a smooth transition to a professional health practitioner. It also addresses the relationship between patient counseling and treatment.
Academic Supervisor: Ángela Gandaria Marsillí
Health Care Administration
This course explores the management processes and roles of public health professionals; health service organization; policy issues, resources utilization and control; human resources management; and public health trends. It discusses current issues affecting health and health care delivery.
Academic Supervisor: Monish Gunawardana
Hospital Management
This course studies hospital governance, medical staff, hospital programs, nursing service, administrator's tasks and functions, management of quality, costs and conflict, unionization and collective bargaining, and government financial regulations.
Academic Supervisor: Monish Gunawardana
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Health Care Administration Online via distance learning
Recommended Professional References.
Joining the proper association is the best way to become an updated professional.
Bircham International University graduates may join many professional associations. Membership requirements for each association may vary depending on the degree program, specialization and graduate resume en each occasion. BIU can not guarantee membership in all instances. BIU does not intermediate in these procedures. Bircham International University provides a list of available memberships and professional references from each faculty where some BIU graduates may belong. Contact directly the ones you select. More info...
AAHAM - American Association of Healthcare Administrative Management
ACHCA - American College of Healthcare Administrators
ACHE - American College of Healthcare Executives
ADGESSA - Association pour le Développement et la Gestion des Équipements Sociaux, Médico Sociaux et Sanitaires
AEIH - Asociación Española de Ingeniería Hospitalaria
AHCA - American Health Care Association
AHCAP - Association for Healthcare Administrative Professionals
ANDE - Asociación Nacional de Directivos de Enfermería
APAH - Associação Portuguesa de Administradores Hospitalares
FAQSS - Fédération des Associations Qualité & Sécurité en Santé
FBAH - Federação Brasileira de Administradores Hospitalares
HATA - Healthcare Administrative Technology Association
HCAA - Health Care Administrators Association
IAHSS - International Association for Healthcare Security and Safety
IHM - Institute of Healthcare Management
MGMA - Medical Group Management Association
PAHCOM - Professional Association of Health Care Management
SBFHSS - Sociedade Brasileira de Farmácia Hospitalar e Serviços de Saúde
SEDISA - Sociedad Española de Directivos de la Salud
SESPAS - Sociedad Española de Salud Pública y Administración Sanitaria
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Admission requirements - Health Care Administration
Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
For official admission status at Bircham distance education university; you need to send in a filled out, dated, and signed official Application for Admission. You may download this application form from the website or request it by email or mail. Please send this application and enclosed documents to our address. You may also submit this application and attached documents by email in a PDF Format. More info...
Bircham International University issues an admission certificate after receiving your complete application for admission. This document will show the amount of credits transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete the distance learning degree program's major. Bircham University can not perform this evaluation without the complete application for admission. More info...
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METHOD OF INSTRUCTION: Distance Learning Higher Education
This distance learning education program is completed by a traditional correspondence instruction method. Once you sign up for the course, Bircham International University will send you (to your mailing address) the suggested textbooks. After reading the book, you will be asked to write a 20 to 35 pages report that reflect your understanding of the book. This report is equivalent to the exam and can be submitted by email or mail. Bircham International University will evaluate your written work. If passed, BIU will issue the corresponding diploma. For more instructions about BIU pedagogy, tutoring, and evaluation, please read our distance learning education study guide. More info...
Students enrolling into this distance education program should be aware that:
1. Location: Bircham International University needs a functional geographical location to ship the book and materials for successful completion of this program of study.
2. Communication: Email, courier, phone are key communication instruments with Bircham University that play an important role in the progress and support of this program of study.
3. Capacity: Any impediment, physical or psychological, to read a book and write a report must be communicated to Bircham International University prior to enrollment into this distance learning program.
4. Technology: No specific technology is required to complete this distance education program.
5. Language: Book reading and report writing in other language than English must be requested (and approved by BIU) prior to enrollment in any distance learning program.
6. Discrimination: There is no discrimination with respect to race, color, gender, beliefs or religion.
7. Age: Check the admission requirements for each distance education degree program. More info...
Duration - Health Care Administration Online via distance learning
For a program of 21 credits, the estimated time for completion is 21 weeks. For 45 credits, the estimated time for completion will be 45 weeks, and so on. Calculations are approximate. The length of each distance learning degree program is calculated based on an average of 15 hours of learning per week. It also depends on the number of validated credits from previous knowledge and the level of commitment to the studies. More info...
All information related to the distance learning degree programs is in English, although you may, upon request and approval, submit the required assignments in other languages.
Recognition - Health Care Administration Online via distance learning
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Faculty of Natural Health Science via distance learning
Health Care Administration Online
Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
