Healthy Society

The Focus Area Healthy Society Explained

In the Focus Area Healthy Society you will learn about the wicked problems that influence healthcare providers and societal partners in their daily practice. These problems have no clear cut solutions and require a multi-disciplinary perspective. Hence, these problems require novel approaches towards the design of how we provide healthcare, and how we think about organizing the healthcare domain. In the courses, you will focus on opportunities for and barriers towards cooperative and organizational models in healthcare that cross care domains. Moreover, you will work on challenges relating to real-life issues, such as scarce human resources combined with a higher, more complex demand for care, and more demanding citizens. As a student, you will think about designing solutions that take into account incentives of different stakeholders while also leading to a healthier population, high quality of care for citizens, contained costs, and high quality of working life for healthcare professionals.

By completing the Focus Area Healthy Society, you will obtain specialized knowledge and the skills required to address the wicked problems that influence our healthcare system.

This Focus Area is currently offered within the following MSc programmes:

• MSc Accountany and Controlling (all profiles)
• MSc Business Administration (Change Management and Health profiles only)
• MSc Economics (all profiles)
• MSc Finance (all profiles)
• MSc International Economics and Sustainable Development
• MSc Human Resource Management
• MSc International Business and Management
• MSc Marketing (Marketing Management profile only)
• MSc Supply Chain Management

More information on Student Portal

Are you a current FEB student? Read more about the requirements and how to apply here.

Focus Area Coordinator

If you have any questions, please contact the focus area coordinator at the Centre for Public Health in Economics and Business via cpheb rug.nl.