Business Development

Description:   Business Development Course is one of the key courses at postgraduate studies level in Healthcare Management programme. This course heavily relies on active learning strategies that put the student in the heart of the educational process. In addition, this course has been designed to encourage and install a spirit of innovation, change management and entrepreneurship among postgraduate students in health-related fields. Therefore, all public and private business: large, medium and small-sized in health-related disciplines will be the target in this course. Topics that are expected to be covered include: innovation management, change management, small business and entrepreneurship, business planning and organization, market research, operations management, marketing for small businesses, funding of small businesses, monitoring and controlling small businesses, HRM for small businesses, leadership strategies for small businesses, critical success factors for small businesses, ethics for small businesses and exit strategies for small businesses.

Health Economics

Description: This course is designed to provide advanced topics on health economics theory and policy. Topics covered include market failure in health sector, the supply side in health economics, hospitals economics, pharmaceutical economics and economic evaluation.


Healthcare Management


Description: Healthcare Management course discusses several issues related to healthcare management and its applications in the public and private Libyan healthcare sector. student swill be exposed to the contents of this course after passing an introduction to economics and healthcare management module. Topics that are expected to be covered in this course include the following: definition of Healthcare Management, management functions and their applications in the healthcare field (planning, organization, staffing and controlling), human resources management in the healthcare, healthcare services management, quality management in the healthcare field, health strategies of prevention and protection from infections, medical waste management, medical supply management and ethics in healthcare field.