Fundamentals of Health Care Systems

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/retro­spective and activity based/fixed funding.
• Health care reforms over the last two decades
• Social justice arguments behind the different systems
• National and international political economy of health governance

Skills

You will learn how to:

• Describe different health care systems
• Describe and understand risk adjustment, incentives and equity/inequity-making mechanisms
• Evaluate the performance of health care systems

General competence

You will be able to:

• Recognize the pros and cons of different health care systems
• Understand trends in health care system development
• Understand global governance of health care systems

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The examination in this course is not available for external candidates. Only students admitted to the course may sit for the examination.

Written examination, individual.

Examination and grading at The Faculty of Medicine.

Dictionary is allowed

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Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F is a fail. Read more about the grading system.

For students at Eu-HEM: English

For students at HEPAM: The problem set will be given in English. Answers can be given in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or in English.

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Overlapping courses

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