The course aims to provide students with the basic and advanced components of health management and their impact on performance. The course will provide students with an introduction to the features of the healthcare sector, including financing systems, goals, stakeholders, and governance models, as well as their evolution within the international and Italian contexts. Moreover, the course focuses on the primary strategies and actions that health managers and policymakers can employ to enhance performance. In particular, the course aims to provide tools that enable performance measurement systems to function effectively and make a meaningful impact in complex service systems, such as healthcare.