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The study and application of health systems management and leadership in health have become an essential element to managing health care organisations successfully and professionally. Health care systems and organisations are extremely complex to manage and operate and require highly skilled and trained professionals in the many areas of health management.

Management and leadership are both important for the delivery of effective, high quality, and personcentred health services. The often fast, dramatic and disruptive changes in health care requires effective managers, as well as informed, innovative leaders, so as to help identify and implement ways to promote sustainable health care access and affordability, while ensuring delivery of safe and needed care. Health care managers focus on setting, measuring and achieving goals. They control situations to reach or exceed their objectives. Managers focus on the structures necessary to set and achieve goals. Health systems' leaders, on the other hand, have the vision of what can be achieved and then communicate this to others, leading to the development of strategies for realizing the vision. Health care leaders build relationships with stakeholders, and motivate people. They are able to negotiate for resources and other support so as to achieve their goals.

The course provides you with the knowledge, skills and competencies expected of today's modern leaders and managers in health care. Whilst the course does not focus on any one specific or specialised area of management, it nonetheless provides a detailed overview of all the relevant disciplines and subjects pertaining to health systems management and leadership. The course harnesses your specific range and work experience to create diverse and colourful discussions and debates where the emphasis is on group work and interdisciplinary interaction. This provides you with the required skills and experience to face the realities of the work place as competent and mature managers and leaders in all parts of the health system.

The course is delivered through a wide array of methods, including lectures, tutorials, group work, discussions and debates, seminars and research-based activities. You will be exposed to both the theoretical aspects and models of management as well as their practical implications utilising case studies, review of articles, field work and group interaction. Whilst the theoretical basis is important, the course equips you with the practical and work-based experience and skills required in today's challenging environment, in line with the postgraduate nature of the course and with the aspirations of the students who are all mature and already working in different areas of the health systems.

The course material will be delivered by the members of the Department of Health Systems Management and Leadership, many of whom are senior health system executives with long experience in management and leadership. They will be assisted by visiting and invited experts and guest lecturers, from both Malta and abroad. This course prides itself in collaborating with many of the leading exponents in health systems management and leadership abroad..