Assessment of Health Administration Education: A Field Practice in Turkey

Abstract

Although health management education has been in practice in the world for a long time, lately it has demonstrated a rapid development in Turkey. In this study, the situation of health management education in Turkey has been initially summarized, and then the opinions of hospital administrators on health management education have been concluded. The views of health care administrators on the health management education were collected by using a questionnaire. The questionnaire was administered to 192 health administrators working in various hospitals in the provinces of Ankara, and Sakarya. It was found that the image of administrators who were educated in health services management was good, and the respondent administrators stated that educated health managers in health management field contributed a lot more in the development and productivity of health sector. However, the administrators mentioned that they were not good at financial management, human resources management, and public relations. The issues that are to gain importance in the future were listed as quality-accreditation, building technologies, and patient safety. It has been emphasized that the faculty and technical infrastructure of the health management schools, which provide education to health administrators in order to turn them into professional administrators who are expected to produce solutions for the problems encountered in health sector, were not good and needed to be improved.