Head: Stjepan Oreskovic, PhD, Professor

  • Staff

  • Activities
    • undergraduate courses:
      • Medical Sociology
      • Introduction to Medicine, and Social Medicine (joint course with the Chair of Social Medicine)
      • Organization of Health Services and Health Economics (joint course with the Chair of Social Medicine)
      • Sociology of Nursing (at the School of Nursing)
    • elective courses:
      • Right to Life
      • Future Doctors
      • Changes on the Face (joint course with the Department of Medical Cosmetology)
    • postgraduate courses:
      • Sociology of Public Health
      • Sociology of Family Medicine
      • Sociology in Epidemiology
      • Sociology of Addictions
      • Health Economics
      • Human Rights and Medicine (a summer course at the Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik)
      • Reforms and New Priorities in Health Care Systems (a summer course at the Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik)


  • Projects
    • Croatian Health Survey (in collaboration with the University of Montreal, and Sante Quebec)
    • Minimal Data Set and Related Procedures (a joint project with the London School of Economics and Croatian Health Insurance Institute)
    • Evaluation of Transitions in Health Care (a joint project with the Northern Centre for Healthcare Research, Groningen, the Netherlands)
    • Involuntary Hospitalization of Mental Patients
    • Student Attitudes on Bioethics (a joint project with the Faculty of Arts, University of Zagreb, and Tscuba University)