The main thematic areas covered by the courses are:
- Hospital Management;
- Health and Social Services Management (leadership, strategic management, decision making, power and authority - delegation of authority, change management, time management, organizational behavior, quality management, and technical mechanisms to ensure and improve quality);
- Human Resources Management (human resource planning, recruitment, selection and staff development, communication, motivation, teamwork, conflict management, negotiation, career development etc.);
- Health Economics and Financial Management (basic concepts of microeconomics, health care market, macro-economy, financial flows for social and medical assistance, payment mechanisms' providers, the economic evaluation of social and medical services , financial management and management);
- Legislation and Ethics (Health and social legislation, norms and ethical values, ethical decisions at the beginning and end of life, patient-physician relationship, research on human subjects and organ transplantation);
- Epidemiology (Basics in Epidemiology, Bio-statistics, demography, advanced epidemiology etc.);
- Health Promotion and Health Education;
- Public Health Services (social and medical needs evaluation, healthcare and social service systems, health system reform);
- Research and Evaluation of health and social services (methodology of medical and social research - quantitative and qualitative, determinism and medical and social services, planning research projects);
- The Management of Public Health Programs (planning, monitoring and evaluation);
- Social and Health policies (social policies patterns, wellness, analysis of systems and health policies, Health insurance, the main actors involved in social and health policies).