Impacto social y laboral de los graduados en administración en salud de la Universidad de Córdoba

Abstract

Introduction: The evaluation of the impact of a professional university training program, through the performance, satisfaction and perception of its graduates and those who interact with them in the workplace, is a technique that allows higher education institutions to take the necessary corrective measures to improve the quality of academic training and project a better professional performance, aimed at continuing to favor the development of the environment for which the program was created. The Health Administration program, created in 2008 and whose first cohorts entered the market in 2013, continues to provide society with professionals capable of making decisions in health, until 2021 it has graduated 1,942 people with a professional profile to perform in processes of planning, organization, execution, and evaluation of activities or administrative procedures in health. The transformation of the health system in 1993 requires sufficient competent personnel to carry out and direct the processes and procedures inherent to its reason for being. Objective: To describe the social and labor impact generated by the Health Administration program of the University of Córdoba on graduates and in the health sector between 2013 and 2021-1. Methodology: The target population was the 1,942 graduates registered in the institutional databases of whom contact information is available and who were approached by phone, email and an electronic survey structured in eight components that included social, demographic, academic aspects, labor, remuneration, achievements, satisfaction and future plans. Information on graduates was consolidated by location, socioeconomic level, age, sex, employment relationship with the sector or other sectors, salary levels, complementary and postgraduate training, positions held according to their training, levels of satisfaction according to academic training and job performance achieved. The results indicate that more than 50% are working with an acceptable remuneration and according to the country's economy.