Learning outcomes of the curricular unit

To understand the different levels of administrative action in the health sector, whether in the exercise of authority powers to safeguard and preserve public health, as a health care provider and regulator of the private practice of medicine, or in the regulation of the medicine sector

Syllabus

1. Human health as a legal value and the fundamental right to health protection.

2. The State's responsibility in the preservation and promotion of public health and the provision of health care.
2.1. Health Authorities powers.
2.2. National Healthcare Service
2.3. Public-Private Conventions and Partnerships in the Health area;
2.4. Licensing of private health units;
2.5. Regulation of the health sector - the role of the Health Regulatory Authority;
2.6. Legal-administrative relationship of health care provision;
2.6.1. Rights and duties of users of health services;
2.6.2. Cross-border Health Care;
2.3.3. Administration's Civil Liability;

3. Administration powers in the area of medicines.
3.1. Manufacturing, introduction in the market, marketing and use of medicines.
3.2. National Health Technology Assessment System.
3.3. Clinical trials and innovative medicines
3.4. Pharmacovigilance