The University Of Georgia
| Program name: | Public Health and Health Care Policy |
| Study Level: | Graduate |
| Program leader: | Tamar Lobjanidze Vasil Tkeshelashvili |
| Study language: | Georgian |
| Qualification: | |
| Program capacity: | 120 |
| Program permission: | |
| Program goals: | The program ensures preparing professionals of Healthcare Administrators for Health improvement. It includes healthcare politics, strategic and operation management of healthcare systems, healthy environmental forming and other issues. |
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| Date of approval: | 02-09-2005 |
| Approval protocol number: | 12-12 |
| Date of program update: | 08-29-2014 |
| Update protocol number: | 36-14 |
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| Teaching Process Characteristics: |
School Core
| Code | Subject | ECTS | Semester |
| PHMA5110 | Public Health and Health care Policy | 6 | 1 |
| PHMA5210 | Health Management | 6 | 1 |
| PHMA5220 | Health Economics and Insurance | 6 | 2 |
| PHMA6150 | Bioethics and Health Legislation | 6 | 2 |
| Credits sum: | 24 | ||
Program Core
| Code | Subject | ECTS | Semester |
| ECON5110 | Managerial Economics | 6 | 1 |
| LAWP5250 | Legal Forms of Administrative Organs Activity | 6 | 1 |
| PHMA5240 | Epidemiological and Socio-statistical Research Methods | 6 | 1 |
| PHMA5120 | Epidemiology and Biostatistics | 6 | 2 |
| PHMA5230 | Environmental Factors and Health | 6 | 2 |
| PHMA5250 | Management of Significant and Socially Dangerous Diseases | 6 | 2 |
| PHMA6230 | Master’s Thesis in Public Health and Healthcare Policy | 30 | 4 |
| Credits sum: | 66 | ||
Program Elective
| Code | Subject | ECTS | |
| ACCT5110 | Financial Accounting | 6 | |
| HELM5220 | Quality Assurance and Improvement in Health Care | 6 | |
| HELM6120 | Managing Human Resources in Healthcare | 6 | |
| HELM6130 | Modern Hospital Management | 6 | |
| HELM6150 | Medical Practice Administration | 6 | |
| HELM6161 | Public Health Service Planning and Marketing | 6 | |
| HELM6170 | Long Term Care Administration | 6 | |
| HELM6180 | Operations Management in Healthcare | 6 | |
| HLAW6250 | Health Care Advocacy | 6 | |
| HPOL6210 | Health Care Policy-Global and International Health | 6 | |
| PHMA6110 | Health Programs Planning, Management, Evaluation | 6 | |
| PHMA6120 | Healthy Lifestyle and Behavior Changes | 6 | |
| PHMA6140 | Health and Social Information Systems and Management | 6 | |
| PHMA6160 | Social and Public Health Service Management | 6 | |
| PHMA6170 | The Human Body’s Structure and Medical Terminology | 6 | |
| PUBL6220 | Public Policy Analysis | 6 | |
| PUBL6230 | Social Policy | 6 | |
| Credits sum: | 102 | ||
Matrix Of Privequisites
Evaluation system
Weekly review |
24 point / 24%; |
Research Paper |
16 point/ 16%; |
Midterm exams |
25 point / 25%; |
Final exam |
35 point / 35% |
| Point | GPA | The university assessment | The general assessment in Georgia | |
| 97-100 | 4,00 | A+ | A | Excellent |
| 94-96 | 3,75 | A | ||
| 91-93 | 3,50 | A- | ||
| 87-90 | 3,25 | B+ | Very good | |
| 84-86 | 3,00 | B | B | |
| 81-83 | 2,75 | B- | ||
| 77-80 | 2,50 | C+ | C | good |
| 74-76 | 2,25 | C | ||
| 71-73 | 2,00 | C- | ||
| 67-70 | 1,75 | D+ | D | Satisfactory |
| 64-66 | 1,50 | D | ||
| 61-63 | 1,25 | D- | ||
| 51-60 | 1,00 | E | E | Sufficient |
| Not passed | ||||
| 41-50 | FX | FX | Insufficient | |
| <40 | F | F | Failed | |