Institute for International Health and Development - IIHD

Economics of Health Systems

(non credit bearing)

Monday-Thursday 6-9 August 2012

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Aims of the course
To provide participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to:

• understand the main types of health care systems found around the world
• appreciate the advantages and disadvantages of different systems for efficiency and equity
• understand the arguments for and against tax financed health care, user charges and health insurance
• engage in debates about health service reform

Who should attend?
Health care policy makers, managers and planners, health care professionals and health service researchers involved in the decisions about public health care provision, the use of user charges and the
development of health insurance.

Provisional programme
Four sessions each day, two in the morning, two in the afternoon

Day 1
Monday 6 August 2012
• Introduction to course
• Analysis of health systems
• International comparisons of health care spending
• Health systems around the world

Day 2
Tuesday 7 August 2012
• Case studies of health care systems - applying the analytic framework
• Voluntary insurance based systems
• Social insurance based systems

Day 3
Wednesday 8 August 2012
• Case studies continued
• Public systems
• Parallel systems

Day 4
Thursday 9 August 2012
• Trends in health service reform
• Case studies of health service reform
• Review of course and close