General description
Course description: Governance, Legal and Ethical Issues
Course aim: This course aims to review the ethical and legal principles in health care management and their application within a governmental legal mold that has its own specificities.
Educational outcomes: This course provides an introduction to the legal and ethical issues that arise in the management of health services organizations. Topics include ethics in business and clinical decision-making, tools for understanding ethics and ethical analysis, and professional and organizational guidelines in ethical decision-making.
The course addresses ethics rules and mission statements, and organizational responses to ethical issues , including ethical processes, such as institutional ethics committees and institutional review boards. In addition, the course will review legal principles, development, application, evaluation, resource allocation, and social responsibility.
Other topics include liability, health care
organizations as corporations, the nature and scope of public health authority, antitrust, fraud and abuse, privacy and confidentiality, tax implications, regulatory oversight, legal requirements for access to healthcare, non-discrimination , and conflicts of interest . In addition to constitutional limitations on public health initiative.