Last modified: 05 Aug 2021 13:04
This course examines different types of health care systems. Building on material from PU5008 it covers issues relevant to many health care systems: the application of supply and demand theory; the complex relationships between the transactors in health care; the patient as consumer; user charges; doctors and hospitals as suppliers of health care; incentives; reimbursement; competition and performance management.
| Study Type | Postgraduate | Level | 5 |
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| Term | Second Term | Credit Points | 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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This course will use the concept of market failure to develop understanding of why and how governments intervene in the market for health care. It will consider equity and efficiency as possible objectives of health care systems and consider how the different models of finance and provision meet these objectives. The course will apply the concept of demand to the consumers of health care and examine the effects of policies such as user charges and patient choice. It will introduce the student to different ways of raising revenue for the financing of health care and consider the effects of these health care financing mechanisms on efficiency and equity. The material will use the concept of supply to develop understanding of how hospitals, doctors and others respond to incentives and the extent to which their economic relationships are tempered by agency.
Assessment 1 Short answers, wk5, 30%
Assessment 2 Briefing Paper, wk10, 50%
Assessment 3 Data interpretation, wk12, 20%
There are no assessments for this course.
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Conceptual | Understand | Explain how markets work and the characteristics that help them work well. |
| Conceptual | Apply | Apply the concepts of supply and demand to understand why markets may fail in health care |
| Conceptual | Evaluate | Identify potential policy responses to market failure and evaluate them against given criteria. |
| Conceptual | Understand | Identify the interdependencies between the different actors in the health care sector and explain how market relations are affected by agency. |
| Conceptual | Evaluate | Evaluate different ways of formulating contracts for health care suppliers and the impact of the incentives these produce. |
| Conceptual | Understand | Understand the difficulties of creating a competitive environment for the efficient supply of health care services. |
| Conceptual | Evaluate | Contrast the different ways of defining equity and critique how it may be measured in practice. |
| Conceptual | Evaluate | Apply criteria of equity and efficiency in the evaluation of revenue collection mechanisms. |
| Conceptual | Analyse | Consider the extent of the conflict between equity and efficiency as objectives in a health care system |
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