Aim of the Teaching is to:
• Provide knowledge of the principal characteristics and determinants of the markets functioning, with a particular focus devoted to the study of the healthcare sector.
• To acquire knowledge about how an economic policy is designed and implemented with particular regard to the understanding of the relationships between health and economic growth.
• Provide knowledge about market failures to understand the role of governmental authorities in order to reduce social costs deriving from externalities, moral hazard, adverse selection and, in general, asymmetric information.
• illustrate the use of economic analysis and cost -benefit approach to evaluate public policies with particular focus to healthcare and the evaluation of new health professional roles.
• Provide students with a set of basic business tools, useful for understanding the managerial dynamics of both public and private structures.
• Provide students the general principles of ethics and of applied ethics for health professions
• Illustrate the ethics of care
• acquire knowledge about the fundamentals of the nursing ethics
• acquire knowledge about the meaning of the ethical codes for the health professions
• provide students with knowledge of the essential elements of forensic pathology and of the rules necessary to carry out the health profession.
• acquire knowledge of the legal obligations established by current legislation and to develop the ability to recognize which acts and events have or may have legal relevance.