2. Structural Units
  3. Faculty of Public Health
  4. Department of "Health care management, Medical ethics and Information technologies

Department of "Health care management, Medical ethics and Information technologies

Prof. Makreta Todorova Draganova, PhD

Information About the Department

The Department of Health care management, Medical ethics, and Information technologies was established in 2022 after the division of the Department of Public Health Sciences.

Devision of “Health care management”

Prof. Makreta Todorova Draganova, PhD

Assoc. Assist. Prof. Milena Saleva, PhD

Assoc. Prof. Violeta Mariusova Yolova

Division of “Medical Ethics”

Prof. Dr. Silviya Aleksandrova-Yankulovska, MD, PhD, DSc, MAS

Atanas Anov

Asst. Antoniya Stateva

Division of “Information technologies and biostatistics”

Assoc. prof. Georgi Tzanev Ivanov, PhD

Dr. Kiril Nikolaev Statev, MD, PhD

Eng. Asen Simeonov Seizov

Subjects taught by the Departments staff in the baccalaureate and master degree programmes

  • Application of computers in medical practice
  • Bioethics
  • Computer Technology in Health Care Management
  • Foundations of Scientific Research in Health Care
  • Fundamentals of Health Care Management
  • Global Public Health Trends
  • Health care management
  • Health legislation
  • Health projects
  • History of health and health care
  • Human resource Management
  • Informatics
  • Legal and ethical issues of health control
  • Management and business ethics
  • Management and ethics of hospice care
  • Management communication techniques and skills
  • Management, ethics and psychology of hospice care
  • Medical and professional ethics
  • Medical ethics and deontology
  • Medical informatics
  • Methodology of research work
  • Methodology of training by practice
  • Nursing diagnosis
  • Organizational behavior
  • Philosophy
  • Public Relations
  • Social and health legislation
  • Social medicine
  • Time management

Disciplines taught by the academic staff of the department in other structural units of MU-Pleven

  • Application of computers in medical practice
  • Bioethics
  • Health legislation
  • Informatics
  • Medical and professional ethics
  • Medical ethics and deontology
  • Medical informatics
  • Palliative care
  • Research methodology
  • Social and health legislation
  • Social medicine

Main directions of the research work

  • Academic and professional ethics
  • Clinical ethics
  • Clinical ethics consultation
  • Competences of medical personnel for research work
  • Epidemiological analysis and assessment of the state and processes of public health in Bulgaria and the European region
  • Evaluating health care reform through public and professional opinion research
  • Exploring the experience of ethical decision-making in clinical practice
  • Financing of hospital services in Bulgaria
  • Fundamental issues of bioethics
  • Health-related quality of life in healthy individuals and patients with various diseases
  • Introduction of automated test generation systems and automation of test control for individual academic disciplines and modules
  • Introduction of systems for administrative service of the educational process and management of the quality of education
  • Labor market of health personnel
  • Legal aspects of practicing the medical profession
  • Managerial and organizational ethics
  • Medically preventable mortality as a measure of the effectiveness of medical care
  • Medico-social aspects and prognostic factors in socially significant diseases
  • Medico-social problems of children's health
  • Medico-social problems of the elderly
  • Medico-social problems of women's health
  • Organizational and ethical problems and trends in the development of hospice/palliative care in Bulgaria
  • Preparation and implementation of healthcare management personnel
  • Professional methods and tools for quality health care
  • Public Health Ethics
  • Qualitative methods for public health research
  • Research ethics
  • Research the possibilities for the implementation of distance learning and control of knowledge in certain disciplines and modules
  • Social inequalities in health
  • Stimulating the development of "flexible" skills among students in their preparation for professional communication and realization
  • Study of connections, information flows and document circulation in the Management Systems and maintaining the quality of training
  • Study of motivation to achieve success among students and other social communities
  • System for complex automation of test control in medical education

Issued textbooks and teaching aids by the academic staff of the department

  • Bioethics - Basic Course
  • Ethical decision-making in healthcare
  • Readings in Bioethics
  • Social Medicine. Basic Course
  • Current Aspects of the Education-Training-Practice Linkage in Health Care
  • Bioethics
  • Public relations and marketing communications
  • Global Public Health Issues
  • Health insurance systems
  • Informatics
  • An informed consent
  • Clinical ethics consultation
  • Compendium of Business Ethics
  • Computer information technology - Part two - Application of computers
  • Computer Information Technology - Part One - Computer Basics
  • Medical ethics
  • Medical statistics
  • Methodology of training by practice
  • Handbook of Medical Ethics for Nurses, Midwives and Allied Health Professionals
  • Basics of bioethics
  • Basics of social medicine
  • Bioethics Practice Guide
  • Social medicine /in Bulgarian/ - six editions
  • Social Medicine for Health Care Bachelors
  • Health care management
  • Human resource Management
  • Management and business ethics
  • Hospice Care - Management and Ethics
  • Hospice and palliative care. Global practice and experience in Bulgaria