COURSE INFORMATION

Course rules


LECTURING SLIDES PER MAIN TOPIC

I. Introduction to health care systems and policies. Principles for the state intervention in the health care market.

II. Introduction to health care systems and policies. The politics and history of health care systems.

III. Taxation and social insurance.

IV. Cost sharing and informal payments.

V. Private health insurance.

VI. Defining benefits and fixing priorities. CEA and statistical analysis. Health Technology Assessment.

VII. Methods of provider payments. Key information systems.

VIII. Influencing providers with non-financial incentives.

IX. Promoting quality and tackling errors in health care.

X. Health care regulation and planning.

XI. Other topics