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PU5533: HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS AND POLICY (2023-2024)

Last modified: 18 Oct 2023 17:16


Course Overview

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.

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Term Second Term Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Shelly Farrar

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

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.


Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

Briefing Paper

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Data Interpretation

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Short Answers

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Formative Assessment

Class Test - Multiple Choice Questions

Assessment Type Formative Weighting 0
Assessment Weeks 5 Feedback Weeks

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Class Test - Multiple Choice Questions

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Assessment Weeks 2 Feedback Weeks

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Class Test - Multiple Choice Questions

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Class Test - Multiple Choice Questions

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Assessment Weeks 8 Feedback Weeks

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Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualAnalyseConsider the extent of the conflict between equity and efficiency as objectives in a health care system
ConceptualEvaluateApply criteria of equity and efficiency in the evaluation of revenue collection mechanisms.
ConceptualUnderstandExplain how markets work and the characteristics that help them work well.
ConceptualUnderstandUnderstand the difficulties of creating a competitive environment for the efficient supply of health care services.
ConceptualUnderstandIdentify the interdependencies between the different actors in the health care sector and explain how market relations are affected by agency.
ConceptualEvaluateIdentify potential policy responses to market failure and evaluate them against given criteria.
ConceptualApplyApply the concepts of supply and demand to understand why markets may fail in health care
ConceptualEvaluateContrast the different ways of defining equity and critique how it may be measured in practice.
ConceptualEvaluateEvaluate different ways of formulating contracts for health care suppliers and the impact of the incentives these produce.

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