The course Principles of Public Health aims to contribute to the training of executives so that health professionals would be able to ensure the rationalism and social legitimacy in the public health sector. Given the multiple difficulties and constraints that health sector is facing, and the scale of social challenges and expectations, management of health services is a “panacea”.
This course mainly deals with the presentation of technical practices and scientific principles of administration and management in relation to the main challenges in the public health sector. At the same time it constitutes a systematic exploration and mapping of the various elements that compose public health sector displaying the social, cultural, epidemiological, political, legal and administrative aspects of the health field. Also, examines the tools for decision making in public health services. Knowledge that will be gained will be the passport for executives to locate their position in public health care units. Finally, it tries to prove that the conception, preparation, reception and implementation of decisions, precondition individuals and social groups.