Interdisciplinary Studies Program in Health Policies, Systems and Services

Directed by: Natalia Yavich and Ernesto Báscolo

The Interdisciplinary Studies Program in Health Policies, Systems, and Services emphasizes the need to establish interrelationships between these and other disciplines within the social sciences and health sciences. This aims to explore research questions, contribute to improving the performance of various interventions, and promote innovations that enhance equity and quality in health policies and service delivery. Within this framework, the program seeks to consolidate the Doctoral Program in Health Policies, Management, and Economics and the Master's Program in Health Systems and Services Management academically and institutionally , providing a space for individual and group research, human resource development, and the dissemination of knowledge related to these issues.

:: Rationale:

The area of ​​knowledge of policies, management and economics of health systems and services has shown significant development in recent years due, mainly, to the growing complexity of the health sector within the framework of the problems associated with the combination of greater social demands for social inclusion in health, claims for the quality of services and economic restrictions of both public, social security and private systems.

In response to this problem, different innovations both at the levels of formulation and implementation of health policies, new organizational structures and interventions in the micro spaces of health services represent a complex object of analysis that requires an interdisciplinary and intersectoral approach. It is possible to recognize the necessary articulation and dialogue of different disciplines, which include economic, political, management sciences, anthropology, sociology, law and epidemiology, among others.

This phenomenon encompasses economic aspects associated with insurance models and resource allocation modality between financing institutions and service providers. In this same field of knowledge, the development of economic evaluation methods of new health technologies has been promoted, as objective criteria for prioritizing more cost/effective services.

The inclusion of political science in this problem corresponds both to the requirement of reformulating public policies as the main strategy to shape a social protection system in health with social inclusion, and to the need to integrate an approach with the capacity to study the relationships and conflicts between the actors that make up the health sector. In this same framework, the right to health represents an analytical axis that provokes analysis of the growing judicialization in the claim for access to health services and the consequent relationship between the levels of State, the functioning of the judicial power and access. to it by the population.

Management as a disciplinary field has a necessary contribution to the extent that these processes investigate the reformulation of service management models, including organizational structures, their information systems, the organization of work processes, decision-making processes and hierarchy models that underlie health services. Anthropology and sociology will be ingredients of this same analysis, to the extent that the actors that make up these production processes are shaped by institutional logics that involve cognitive components, values ​​and power relations that regulate organizational behaviors and routines. In this framework, the trajectories and Indian syncrasia of organizations must be recognized as relevant aspects of change processes. Finally, epidemiology contributes to the analysis of population health problems and their social determinants.

The Interdisciplinary Studies Program in Health Policies, Systems and Services emphasizes the need to establish interrelationships between these and other disciplines of social sciences and health, with the purpose of exploring questions and contributing to improving the performance of different interventions and promote innovations that improve conditions of equity and quality in policies and in the provision of health services. Within this framework, an attempt is made to academically and institutionally consolidate the Doctorate in Policies, Management and Economics of Health Systems and Services and the Master of Management in Health Systems and Services as a space for the development of both individual and group research, the training of human resources and the dissemination of knowledge around this problem.

::CONTACTS: direccion@capacitasalud.com.ar

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