Health Care

In the field of health care today several features are emerging that will determine the direction of future development. Firstly, there is the need to find a way to blend together the skills of health specialists with a managerial approach to health care. We also find a trend towards humanizing the whole process of medical treatment, a regionalization of the Public Health Service and decentralization of decision making bodies. The expectations of the public and health organizations regarding treatment options are also evolving, while private service companies are taking their place in public health facilities and technology is impacting on the role of health professionals. There is also a constant effort to raise the quality of medical treatment, together with the recognition of the concept of health care as an expression of the optimal quality of life for both patients and workers in the health sector, and of the need for CEM – Continuing Education in Medicine - for health professionals at every level.

ISTUD focuses on projects and study programmes intended to improve the health care offered to the client/end user and for all the health care operators involved in treatments. The research aims to find a key to the understanding of all areas of this sector and to produce shared solutions of practical benefit to the health service system. The ISTUD Health Service Area plans its research projects using:

• standard scientific methodology and approach (formulation of the initial hypothesis; testing of the hypothesis through analysis of relevant data)
• research tools commonly used in social science studies (interpretation of data after collection, language analysis, case studies, analogies, metaphors).

Health Service Area activities are divided into two key areas. The finance/ management sector deals with training, and with the research into and the identification of solutions inspired by a business management approach, for the organization of health care. The social/medical sector deals with the typical problems arising in the process of medical care and treatment, which are unique to this field in their complexity and in the professional competencies they demand.

Projects (IT)

Publications (IT)