1. The right to health and the health system. - The right to health: recognition and content. - Identification of the regulation of the right to health. - Features of the health system. 2. Responsible institutions and their functions in health matters. - Public and private sector responsibility for research. - Public and private sector responsibility for the safety and quality of health care. - Public and private sector responsibility for health care provision. 3. Legal requirements and public funding of biomedical research - Research involving invasive procedures on human subjects. - Data management in health care: data protection and reuse. - The research promotion system: public and private funding in research. 4. The legal regime for the procurement, management and use of organs, cells and tissues. - Donation and use of human embryos and fetuses, their cells, tissues or organs. - Procurement and use of cells and tissues of human embryonic origin and other similar cells. - Genetic analysis, biological samples and biobanks. 5. The regulation of drugs and medical devices: research, authorization and financing. - General characteristics of drug regulation. - Research and authorization of drugs. - Financing and pricing of medicines. 6. Patients' rights in the face of health innovations: data protection. - Rights of the participants in clinical trials. - Right of access to health innovations.

Classroom lectures. Face-to-face classes: reduced (workshops, seminars, case studies). Student individual work. Final exam. Seminars and lectures supported by computer and audiovisual aids. Practical learning based on cases and problems, and exercise resolution. Individual and group or cooperative work with the option of oral or written presentation. Individual and group tutorials to resolve doubts and queries about the subject.