Law and Economics of Health Care - HOPV0158

• Title: Law and Economics of Health Care
• Guaranteed by: Department of Economics (22-KNH)
• Faculty: Faculty of Law
• Actual: from 2022
• Semester: both
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: written
• Hours per week, examination: 0/2, Ex [HT]
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: cancelled
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Level: basic
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
• Guarantor: doc. Mgr. Bc. Libor Dušek, Ph.D.
• Incompatibility : HP0681

Annotation

Last update: doc. PhDr. Marta Chromá, Ph.D. (07.04.2019)

Modern health care systems struggle to reduce the burden of inappropriate health care. Inappropriate health care services increase expenditures without improving the medical condition of patients. Their main cause is a misalignment between the best interest of health care providers, the best interest of patients, and the best interest of payers.

Syllabus

Last update: doc. PhDr. Marta Chromá, Ph.D. (07.04.2019)

Students will acquire a general understanding of these relationships and of the role of governments and law in promoting and protecting health, including the functions of courts and legislatures in relation to health care law and policy; understand the relationship between the legal system, health care providers, and patients; understand the impact of payment/reimbursment medthods; be able to identify and analyze legal issues in health care.

After successfully completing this course, students will be able to: (i) discuss current issues of health care provision and decision making in health care, and (ii) critically analyze policies on the financing and provision of health care. The skills acquired in this course will be especially relevant for anyone wishing to pursue further studies (political, administrative, or medical) in the health care field.

Course completion requirements

Last update: Michaela Špačková (27.03.2019)

Written exam.

Learning resources

Last update: Michaela Špačková (27.03.2019)

_Základní:

• Bhattacharya, Tu, and Hyde: Introduction to Health Economics”

• Cohen, Lynch, Robertson, Sunstein: “Nudging Health. Health Law and Behavioral Economics”

   

  Doplňková:

• Kessler D., “Evaluating the Medical Malpractice System and Options for Reform,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2011, 25(2):93-110

• Mello, M. and A. Kachalia. “Evaluation of Options for Medical Malpractice System Reform”, MedPAC 2010, 10-2: 1–75

• Kachalia A. and M. M. Mello. “New directions in medical liability reform”, 364(16) New England Journal of Medicine 2011, 1564-1572

• Schwenk T. L., “The Moment of Truth,” JAMA, February 12, 2014, 11(6):573-4

• Charlesworth A., Davies A., and J. Dixon. “Reforming payment for health care in Europe to achieve better value”, 2012