Diploma in Health Services Administration - Online

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• Objectives
  The Diploma in Health Services Administration (DHSA) program is designed to prepare students for a career in health care at the managerial level. It meets the needs of students interested in health services administration and of those currently employed in the health care sector in a managerial capacity, particularly, middle managers in medium and large institutions, administrators in small facilities, and employees in community health, long-term care, primary care, multi-service centres, and community health boards. The program provides a conceptual background for the increasingly complex managerial tasks performed in health institutions, agencies, and health-related government departments. Every effort is made to balance political, social, economic, cultural, medical, and ethical approaches to understanding the health care delivery system with those of the management sciences.
• Academic title
  Diploma in Health Services Administration
• Course description
  The one-year program features both an academic and results-oriented curriculum. Students accepted into the DHSA program take the following half-credit classes:
  
  Fall term
              
  •     HESA 4000.03: Canadian Health Care Delivery System
  •     HESA 4001.03: Management Roles and Competencies
  •     HESA 4002.03: Health Human Resource Management
  •     HESA 4004.03: Health Care Planning
  •     HLTH 4040.03: Health Law for Non-Lawyers
  
  Winter term
              
  •     HESA 4003.03: Quality Management
  •     HESA 4005.03: Health Care Financial Management
  •     HESA 4200.03: Epidemiology for Managers
  
  Summer term
              
  •     HESA 4400.03: Introduction to Health Care Economics
  •     One half credit elective as approved by the School

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