1. Elective Disciplines
Area of Concentration: Pharmaceutical Assistance
Health Technology and Pharmacoeconomics Assessment (2 Credit Units, 30 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: General aspects of health economics. State, market and economic regulation in health. Health financing and spending. Economic evaluation in health. Equity and inequality in health. HTA: overview of concepts and challenges - Brazilian case. HTA: government vision - Ministry of Health and Regulatory Agencies. HTA: vision of the industry. HTA: view of the academy. HTA in developed countries: Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom. Health Economics. Funding of the Brazilian Health System. Economic evaluation. Challenges for the implementation of HTA in Brazil. HTA in the supplementary health system. The use of databases and clinical studies for Pharmacoeconomic studies. How to deal with health innovations? The impact of innovation on the health system. How do employers deal with health innovation? The issue of health patents. The Judiciary's perspective on access to health technologies. Health Economics. Pharmacoeconomics: Efficacy, Effectiveness and Efficiency. Studies of Cost-Effectiveness, Cost-Benefit, Cost-Utility and Cost Minimization Analysis.
Development of Master's Dissertation (10 Credit Units, 150 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Research, structuring, organization and defense of the master's dissertation. The conclusion work of the professional master's degree is configured as a dissertation that demonstrates mastery of the object of study, in addition to the investigation applied to the solution of problems that may have an impact on the system to which it is addressed. It must contain the description and discussion of the results, conclusions and recommendations of practical applications and be anchored in a theoretical framework. Its content may include, for example, results of case studies, developments and description of methodologies, technologies and software, patents resulting from applied research
Clinical Epidemiology and Pharmacoepidemiology (2 Credit Units, 30 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Health-disease process in society. Population distribution and the determinants of the risk of diseases, injuries and health-related events. Specific measures to prevent, control or eradicate illness, damage or health problems and to protect, promote or recover individual and collective health. Information and knowledge to support decision making in the planning, administration and evaluation of health systems, programs, services and actions. Application of scientific methodology to the object of epidemiology: health-disease processes in human populations. Pharmacoepidemiology.
Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Care (2 Credit Units, 30 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Rational use of medicines. Personalized treatment strategy. Pharmaceutical attention. Pharmaceutical care. Pharmacotherapeutic follow-up. Adherence to treatment. Medication effectiveness. Treatment efficiency
Governance, Management, Development and Sustainability in Pharmaceutical Assistance (2 Credit Units, 30 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Health governance. Situational Strategic Planning. Health management. Technological Development. Health sustainability.
Methodology, Biostatistics and Scientific Production (2 Credit Units, 30 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Meta-analysis. Systematic review (bibliometrics). Search for evidence. Structure and organization of scientific works (ABNT). Structure and organization of scientific articles (ABNT). Methods applied in descriptive studies. Study design with designs: transversal, prevalence, cohort, quasi-experiment and ecological. Research protocol. Data collection instruments. Sampling. Selection and training of field researchers. Execution of the pilot study. Data collect. Quality control. Management. Critical analysis of publications of observational studies (cohort, case-control and cross-sectional studies), experimental (randomized clinical trial and quasi-experiment) and systematic review. Writing of scientific articles: preparation of tables and graphs, poster presentation, writing of original articles. Statistical applications for the biomedical area. Definition. Population and sample. Central tendency measures. Dispersion measures. Notions of probability. Normal distribution. Mean, variance and standard deviation. Binomial, Poisson, Geometric, Multinomial, Gamma, exponential distribution etc. Data analysis. Statistics and estimation, Significance test and confidentiality limits, significance of the difference between observed averages. One-way analysis of variance. Chi-square test.
Integrative and Complementary Health Practices (2 Credit Units, 30 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Traditional Chinese Medicine-Acupuncture, Homeopathy, Medicinal Plants and Phytotherapy, Social Thermalism / Crenotherapy, Anthroposophical Medicine, discussing the strategies for implementation in the Unified Health System - SUS, considering: health indicators; the public policies that regulate them, the socio-cultural and economic context of the country; the basic precepts of guaranteeing safety, efficacy and quality of these therapeutic strategies. Legislation and methods for searching, evaluating and compiling scientific information in the field of Traditional Chinese Medicine-Acupuncture, Homeopathy, Medicinal Plants and Phytotherapy, Social Thermalism / Crenotherapy, Anthroposophical Medicine are discussed, as well as the state of the art and use in the country and the its role as a therapeutic resource in Brazil.
Regulation, Pharmacovigilance and Drug Use Studies (2 Credit Units, 30 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Current policies for the regulation and regulation of medicines in Brazil. Application of the method and epidemiological reasoning in the study of the effects - beneficial and adverse - and the use of medicines in human populations. Definitions, classification and mechanisms of production of adverse reactions to drugs, causality, algorithms, methods in pharmacovigilance. Deviations in quality. State of the art of pharmacovigilance and pharmacoepidemiology in Brazil. Drug use studies.
Research Seminar I (1 credit unit, 15 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Present the research project that will support the master's dissertation. Develop a critical analysis of the scientific methodology through assistance to public presentations and discussions of dissertation projects. Present the dissertation project, submitting to the argument of colleagues and professors. Discuss the study design in view of the proposed objectives. Participate in assisting public defenses of theses and dissertations, recording the description of topics relevant to the discussion of the project, such as: justification, material and methods, results, discussion, ethical aspects, conclusions, examination of the panel and presentation.
Research Seminar II (1 Credit Unit, 15 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Present the research project that will support the master's dissertation. Develop a critical analysis of the scientific methodology through assistance to public presentations and discussions of dissertation projects. Present the dissertation project, submitting to the argument of colleagues and professors. Discuss the study design in view of the proposed objectives. Participate in assisting public defenses of theses and dissertations, recording the description of topics relevant to the discussion of the project, such as: justification, material and methods, results, discussion, ethical aspects, conclusions, examination of the panel and presentation.
Technical Visits (Case Study) (1 Credit Unit, 15 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Visits to public and supplementary Health Equipment (Unified Health System) and Health Companies. Narratives that present a mirrored scenario in real life. In it, decisions are made, and conclusions are made based on the context presented. The case study simulates, in the classroom, a managerial problem that was cut out of a true or verisimilar situation and employs it as a learning resource in a controlled environment.