Public health student at the WMU with the award of the Polish Society of Health Economics

The Polish Society of Health Economics has awarded prizes in the 6th round of the competition for the best doctoral, master’s, bachelor’s and diploma theses in the field of health care economics and management. Joanna Sobol, a student of the 2nd degree studies in the area of public health at the Faculty of Health Sciences of the WMU, has been awarded by the Competition Jury in the category of the best bachelor’s thesis. The Jury appreciated the substantive quality, creativeness and innovativeness of her work.

The award-winning work on the “Optimization of processes of selecting suppliers of disposable products for a nationwide dialysis station”, written under the patronage of Artur Białoszewski from the Department of Environmental Hazard Prevention and Allergology of the WMU’s UCC, is an extremely up-to-date content responding to the systemic gap in the organization of logistics and procurement in public and non-public health care establishments including hospitals. The method proposed by Joanna Sobol is of key importance and has a direct impact on economic performance, reduction of unnecessary costs, pro-quality improvements, increase in EBITDA and improvement of quality of organizational processes. The system described by her, intended for large integrated establishments, can be used as an immediate solution, both on macro- and micro-economic scale, to build functional integration by connecting chains of events. These solutions can be used when introducing systemic changes by the legislature and by the health care system financing authority for preparation of relevant laws and implementing documents.