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Knowledge and understanding: Students will understand the concepts of Performance, Performance Cycle, Performance Tree and Performance indicators in healthcare organizations. Students will also understand the meaning and the appropriate use of the main methods and indicators for monitoring the health of the population and the activities of the health services. Applying knowledge and understanding: Students will be able to describe the main methods of Performance evaluation and to know which one is more suitable to the situation presented. They will be able to search for the appropriate information to describe a specific health context and to apply the appropriate method of analysis. Making judgement: Students will acquire the ability of independent judgement on issues related to Performance evaluation in healthcare. Through the analysis of examples taken from the literature they will be able to choose the most appropriate Performance evaluation method to compare different geographical contexts, pre-defined objectives, and different organizational levels. Communication skills: Students will have the ability to critically discuss examples of Performance evaluation systems used in healthcare. They will have the ability to simulate a congress speech by delivering to the classroom a Power Point presentation on a short health evaluation report. Learning skills: Students will be able to apply descriptive and analytical statistics to analyse simple dataset and to report the results following the structured form of a scientific article.