Week 6 Health Systems: Seminar exercises
Please Prepare in advance and have presentation ready on the day of the seminar to present
Topic: health system Planning and its relevance to policy developments:
In advance of the seminar, each seminar group should divide into groups of four people and allocate the work among them. Each group should do either question 1 or question 2 (both questions should be covered by the four or five groups in each seminar). Most seminars will have two groups covering each question. BSc students may wish to focus on question 1.
Working in groups please do the background work in advance of seminar with a view to presenting your findings to the whole group (ten minutes max). You may use power point .
Question 1.London is planning to close 25% of its acute hospital beds and close up to a quarter of it’s A and E departments over the next two years. You have been asked to advise local residents as to what questions they might ask at the public meeting -
Describe how you would approach the problems outlined in question 1 and what principles you would keep in mind?
How might you develop a framework for analysis , what criteria will you use?
What data and information would you require ?
What analysis would you undertake?
Prepare a presentation for the public meeting
Question 2. The health minister asks you to conduct a review of equity to inform planning in a low income country (of your choice) and to use a Western country as a benchmark (choose a country of your choice )
Describe how you would approach the problems outlined in question 2 and what principles you would keep in mind?
How might you develop a framework for analysis and what criteria will you use?
What data and information would you require ?
What analysis would you undertake
Prepare a presentation for the ministerial summit
Choosing only two or three variables of your choice (finance, beds, staff , immunisation, sexual health , operations etc) , please provide an account of the data sources and availability in the two contrasting countries (using government, WHO and other websites looking for routine data and surveys). Discuss their strengths and limitations referring back to the reference country population.
