Module Information
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Module: Health systems, economics and policy
Module Information
Module Information
Lead tutor: David Price
Phone: 020 7882 5638
Email: d.c.j.price@qmul.ac.uk
This module counts 15 credits towards your MSc (180 credits) or Postgraduate Diploma (120 credits). It is a core module for the MSc courses in International primary healthcare, Global public health and policy, Health systems and global policy and the BSc in Global public health and primary care. You are expected to undertake a total of 150 hours of study, including private study, attending lectures and seminars, and preparing the assignment. Attendance at lectures and seminars is a course requirement.
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Week 1 |
INTRODUCTION TO THE MODULE AND ASSIGNMENT Lecture: Course overview and main themes |
Page David Price |
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Seminar: Introduction to the assignment and class exercise |
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Week 2 |
DEFINING HEALTH SYSTEMS
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Page David Price |
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Week 3 |
UNDERSTANDING HEATH SYSTEM GOALS AND SYSTEM PERFORMANCE |
Page David Price |
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Week 4 |
ECONOMICS AND HEALTH POLICY - THE SOCIAL WELFARE APPROACH TO HEALTH SYSTEMS |
Page David Price |
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Week 5 |
HEALTH POLICY-MAKING |
Page David Price |
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Week 6 |
HEALTH SYSTEM FINANCING |
Page David Price |
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Week 7 |
HEALTH CARE PLANNING |
Page Professor Pollock |
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Week 8 |
ADMINISTERING THE HEALTH SYSTEM |
Page David Price |
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Week 9 |
HEALTH SYSTEM REFORM AND THE DEMAND FOR HEALTH CARE
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Page David Price |
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Week 10 |
SUPPLY SIDE REFORM AND REIMBURSEMENT |
Page David Price |
Core Reading
Module textbooks:
Black N and Gruen R (2005) Understanding health services. Maidenhead: Open University Press. (Find it in the Library or buy it)
Blank RH and Burau V (2004) Comparative health policy. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (Find it in the Library or buy it)
Buse K, Mays N, Walt G (2005). Making Health Policy. Understanding Public Health Series Open University Press. (Find it in the Library or buy it)
Figueras J et al (2005) Purchasing to improve health system performance. Maidenhead: Open University Press, chapter 11. (Available on-line from http://www.euro.who.int/observatory )
Figueras J and McKee M (2011) Health Systems, Health, Wealth and Societal Well-being: Assessing the case for investing in health systems. Maidenhead: Open University Press. (Read the e-book or buy it)
Palmer G and Ho M (2009) Health economics. London: Palgrave. (Find it in the Library or buy it)
World Health Organization (2008) World Health Report 2008. Geneva: WHO. (Read it here)
On-line databases
WHO:
http://www.who.int/topics/health_systems/en/
http://www.who.int/management/mhswork/en/index.html (making health systems work series)
http://www.who.int/healthsystems/topics/financing/en/index.html (a source of WHO information about health funding)
http://www.who.int/health_financing/documents/list/en/index3.html (health financing discussion papers)
http://www.euro.who.int/observatory
http://www.who.int/countries/en/
HNP discussion paper series: http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTHEALTHNUTRITIONANDPOPULATION/EXTHSD/0,,contentMDK:20131121~menuPK:442752~pagePK:148956~piPK:216618~theSitePK:376793,00.html
Regional and country data: http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTHEALTHNUTRITIONANDPOPULATION/EXTHSD/0,,contentMDK:20184860~menuPK:376819~pagePK:148956~piPK:216618~theSitePK:376793,00.html
Lecture Notes are now posted week by week. References to all lecture notes can be found HERE
Module
Reminders, notes to students and other information
1. 24 September 2012
Additional references for assignment here
Further relevant articles avaialble in this special issue of the Lancet
2. 24 September 2012
Reminder week two seminar. You should prepare this week for week two seminar: Read the overview of the World Health Report 2000 and in 300 words for class discussion contrast this WHO analysis of health system shortcomings with the Alma Ata Declaration of 1978.
3. 26 September
New Lancet paper on health inequity in Europe. Read here
