Health Policy - JSM602

• Title: Health Policy
• Form of teaching: lecture+seminar
• Guaranteed by: Department of Public and Social Policy (23-KVSP)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2026
• Duration in semesters: 1
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 8
• Examination process: summer s.:written
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (24)
• Maximum number of enrolled students: 24
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Repeated enrollment: 2 / 2 / 1 / 2
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: Ing. Zuzana Kotherová, Ph.D.
• Class: Courses for incoming students

Syllabus

Organization of the course:

Week 1
Healthcare Systems Opening: key words, health indicators, comparing healthcare systems.

Week 2
Comparative health system Activity Reading

Week 3
Healthcare Systems Typology

Week4
Healthcare systems challenges: The health workforce crisis Assignment of the semestral project and requirements

Week 5

Activity 1: students’ presentations and discussion

Week 6
The role of OECD in health policy

Week 7
Comparing Health Systems: International Sources of Data

Week 8
Behavioural Insights: health literacy

Week 9
Host lecture

Week 10
Host lecture

Week 11
Closing seminar, semestral project consultations

Last update: Skácel Petr, Mgr., DiS. (18.12.2025)

Learning outcomes

• To understand the most important issues connected with the organisation of health systems.
• To know the basic health system types and to understand and discuss their strengths and weaknesses.
• To understand the dynamic of the actors involved in the health policy (federal, state, and local governments, profit and non-profit organizations, entrepreneurs, patients/citizens, advocacy groups, charity groups).
• To understand and discuss selected health policy problems/agendas and proposals for solutions.

Last update: Skácel Petr, Mgr., DiS. (18.12.2025)