EDUCATION

The Hungarian language programs cover the whole spectrum of training, from bachelor, master and doctoral studies to higher vocational education and training in the fields of health management, mental and community health and health informatics. The Faculty focuses on the social sciences, but also integrates interdisciplinary trainings.

There is a postgraduate program launched in Bratislava, Slovakia, since more than a decade. The Slovakian-language Health Care Manager’s Program is highly practice-oriented: knowledge sharing, discussion of experiences, personal cases and examples are as important as theoretical knowledge. Joint problem-solving plays an important role. The experiential learning approach to management training means that the new knowledge acquired can be recycled almost immediately.

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

Fields of particular importance include healthcare quality management and patient safety, big data and network analysis, health policy, human resources for health development, project management and dissemination.

The improvements of the research program and the reporting system are based on the principles given by the World Health Organization.

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND PROJECTS

The teaching staff and colleagues work together with leading institutes and professionals around the world including, for instance, the World Bank Institute, the European Health Property Network, the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, and the World Health Organization.

The aim of the numerous ongoing international projects at the Faculty is, among others, strengthening proactive cyber defence, direct and rapid detecting of the multiresistant bacteria in clinical samples, creating a repository of digital copies of around 3 million pathology slides covering a range of disease areas.

Further focuses of the projects are the adapting, replicating and implementing evaluated effective health interventions in the areas of food reformulation monitoring, framing of aggressive marketing of food, and public procurement of healthy food in public settings. Or reinforcing the capacity of care authorities to address successfully important aspects for example to change management and re-organisation of the existing care models, the re-organisation of patient pathways, health workforce roles and skills with digital technologies and data, are also cornerstones of the projects.

Reforms on medical deserts which means situations or areas where people have difficulties to access care (e.g. waiting time, doctor’s registration difficulties or long distances to hospital) are also a crucial project: it is focusing on skill mix, task shifting, use of e-health and IT systems, recruitment and retention management and policies, in order to guarantee universal coverage also in rural and underserved areas.

Or there is X-eHealth, with the purpose to develop the foundations for a common framework for medical imaging, discharge letters, laboratory results and rare diseases to flow both alongside citizens care pathway and across health entities between EU Member States and neighbouring countries.