HGOV4100 – Fundamentals of Health Care Systems

Course content

The course aims to introduce the principles of health care organization and policy in a comparative perspective, identify the key characteristics and components of health care systems, assess each health care system’s strengths and weaknesses, and discuss the recent health care reform efforts in OECD countries.

Learning outcome

Knowledge

You will gain knowledge of:

  • The evolutionary path of European health care systems
  • Main models of health care funding, including the differences between tax based models, SHI-models and models based on voluntary insurance
  • Models of health care provision, including differences between individual and institutional providers and between public and private providers
  • Types of financing systems; models for prospective/retro?spective and activity based/fixed funding.
  • Health care reforms over the last two decades
  • National and international political economy of health governance

Skills

You will learn how to:

  • Describe diffe