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PU5901: HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS AND POLICY (2015-2016)

Last modified: 25 Mar 2016 11:39


Course Overview

This module looks at different types of health care systems. The main aspects of this will be the modes of finance and provision, levels and allocation of expenditure and the implications of these for efficient and equitable use of health care resources. Building on material from Module 1 it will cover a range of 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; supplier; incentives; reimbursement and competition. The material will draw on a range of experiences from the UK, continental Europe, North America and Australia.

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Term Second Term Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus Old Aberdeen Sustained Study No
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Qualification Prerequisites

None.

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

  • One of MSc Global Health and Management (Studied) or MSc Public Health Research (Studied) or Pg Certificate in Health Economics (Studied)
  • Any Postgraduate Programme (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

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What courses cannot be taken with this course?

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Are there a limited number of places available?

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Course Description

·        To identify the characteristics of an international selection of health care systems covering private and public models of health care finance and delivery. To identify the possible objectives of health care systems and consider how the different models meet these objectives within the context of market failure in health care.

·        To apply the concept of demand to the consumers of health care. To examine the effects of user charges and to consider the independence of demand from supply in health care.

·        To apply the concept of supply to the behaviour of the institutions and actors within the health care systems. To understand how hospitals, doctors and others respond to incentives and the extent to which their economic relationships are tempered by agency.


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