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Health Economics - JEM101
Anglický název: Health Economics
Zajišťuje: Institut ekonomických studií (23-IES)
Fakulta: Fakulta sociálních věd
Platnost: od 2014 do 2014
Semestr: letní
E-Kredity: 6
Způsob provedení zkoušky: letní s.:
Rozsah, examinace: letní s.:2/2, Zk [HT]
Počet míst: 59 / 59 (59)
Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
4EU+: ne
Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
Stav předmětu: vyučován
Jazyk výuky: angličtina
Způsob výuky: prezenční
Způsob výuky: prezenční
Poznámka: předmět je možno zapsat mimo plán
povolen pro zápis po webu
při zápisu přednost, je-li ve stud. plánu
Garant: PhDr. Lucie Bryndová
Mgr. Henrieta Tulejová
Vyučující: PhDr. Lucie Bryndová
Třída: Courses for incoming students
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Anotace -
Poslední úprava: PhDr. Lucie Bryndová (18.02.2021)
ALL LECTURES AND SEMINARS in summer semester 2020/2021 ARE HELD ONLINE AS WEBINARS IN ADOBE CONNECT. LINK TO VIRTUAL CLASSROOM WAS SENT VIA SIS STUDENT MAILING LIST and individually through CUNI Adobe Connect invitations on February 18, 2021. In case you have not received it, please write me an email.

Timetable: ALL LECTURES START AT 9:30 am Central European Time! Seminars will follow right after the lecture, with a short break.
No lectures and seminars on April 2, 2021 (Easter Friday), and April 30, 2021 (Dean's Day).

Final exam will be held in Moodle.
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The course features a series of lectures on health economics issues. Lectures are complemented by seminars.
The course provides students with a framework to understand principles of health economics, but also to understand health systems (their funding, pooling of funds, financing, purchasing, and provision of health care, and regulation of health systems). Topics regarding performance, effectiveness, and quality of health systems are also discussed.

Learning goals of the course are for students to:
1/ understand health economic principles, market failures and theories associated with them
2/ understand functioning of health systems in developed countries, their fundamentals and recent developments
3/ understand measurements of health status, health system performance and efficiency
4/ use economic theory to explain motivation and behavior of individual stakeholders
5/ use health economic theory and empirical findings to discuss up-to-date issues of health systems in developed countries
6/ assess proposed health policy and/or health systems changes using health economic theory and findings

Populations of developed countries are ageing, chronic diseases prevalence is on rise, all resulting in rising demand for health care. Technological progress brings innovations that transform into new, usually more efficient and safer, but also costlier, ways of treating diseases. These effects put pressure on public budgets which are used to finance health care and pose question of health systems’ financial sustainability without compromising access to needed health care for all citizens. At the same time, there are number of examples of poor quality and ineffectiveness of resource utilization in public health systems. Thus, the importance of understanding health economics is increasing.
Literatura
Poslední úprava: PhDr. Lucie Bryndová (18.02.2021)

DUE TO LIBRARY CLOSURE these eBOOKS are available from CUNI eLibrary (UKAŽ) for all CUNI students at ukaz.cuni.cz:

Olsen J.A. (2017): Principles in Health Economics and Policy. Oxford – available from ukaz.cuni.cz + open for all CUNI students for academic year 2020/2021 at https://ezdroje.cuni.cz/prehled/zdroj.php?id=858
 
Bernell S. (2016) : Health Economics: Core Concepts and Essential Tools. Health Administration Press – available from ukaz.cuni.cz

 

For particular lectures:

Demand for health insurance: 

Olsen J.A. (2017) - Chapter 10: Uncertainty and health insurance. 

Bernell S. (2016) - Chapter 8: The insurance market. 

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List of relevant literature and recommended further readings will be provided during lectures.

Main textbooks used in the class:

Feldstein, P. J. (2005); Health Care Economics, 6th edition; Thomson Delmar Learning – available in IES library, on-site lending only

McPake, B., Kumaranayake, L., Normand, C. (2005); Health Economics: An International Perspective; Routledge

William, J. (1999); Principles of Health Economics for Developing Countries; World Bank Institute

 

Further topics in health economics can be found in (all accessible on-line via CERGE-EI library):

Culyer, A.J., Newhouse, J.P. (editors, 2000); Handbook of Health Economics, Volume 1A, 1st edition; North Holland

Culyer, A.J., Newhouse, J.P. (editors, 2000); Handbook of Health Economics, Volume 1B, 1st edition; North Holland

Pauly, M., McGuire, T., Barros, P. (editors, 2011); Handbook of Health Economics, Volume 2, 1st edition; North Holland

Sylabus -
Poslední úprava: PhDr. Lucie Bryndová (22.02.2021)

Course organization

The course is organized into lectures and seminars. For list of lecture topics see below.

Since health economics is an applied field of economic theory, seminars make up substantial part of the course with the goal to actively involve students in discussions. Seminar topics are chosen to reflect current public and political debates on health economic issues, most of them have to do with ethics and social feeling and values as well. They are chosen to be controversial in opinions and point of views and with no easy answers to posed issues. During seminars, students practice their ability to analyze a problem, search and present clearly arguments supporting the given point of view and participate in the final general discussion.

Each seminar will cover one up-to-date topic in health policy and economics (see extra file). There will be two groups of students for each topic, covering 2 different points of view on the topic. Number of students in one student group is limited to 3 students (minimum 2 students). Each student group must prepare, in advance before their seminar session, a 15-minute presentation. The presentation should cover and present clearly the topic issue and students’ assigned point of view, explain it to other class participants and provide supporting examples, arguments and evidence from literature to support and defend their point of view. Groups’ presentations will be followed by a debate of the 2 groups and a discussion of the whole class, with the lecturer summing up the issue and arguments covering the topic.

Please note, the opinion defended in the presentation and discussion does not need to correspond to the student’s own personal opinion on the issue; however the presented statements must be in line with the assigned point of view of his or her student group!

By the end of the semester, each group of students shall hand in a group essay summarizing their point of view on the given topic. The essay should include following parts:

-          summary of the group’s point of view, including supporting examples, arguments and evidences from the literature, with properly cited literature sources and full list of references at the end of the essay

-          summary of findings and contra-arguments from the class debate and discussion

-          reaction to arguments of the opponents and/or stated in the class discussion and conclusion to the group’s point of view. It can also answer such questions as whether personal point of view of the group members changed because of the discussion, why and how it changed.

 

Lecture topics:

Introduction. Overview of health systems and health economics, description of health systems.

Demand for health care and relationship between a patient and a provider of health care

Demand for health insurance, pooling of funds and risk adjustment

Impact of health services on health status. Preserving health status of the population.

Financing of health systems, issue of third party payment and moral hazard

New trends in improving quality and efficiency of health care provision

How to pay for health care - comparison of different reimbursement mechanisms

Health technology assessment, pharmacoeconomics

Czech healthcare system

Current issues in health systems – projection models, financial sustainability

Long term care – organization and financing

Reform trends in health systems (NL)

Managed competition and markets in health systems, Health systems and economic cycle

 

Seminars:

For description of seminar topics for students’ presentations see extra file on the course webpage.

 

The syllabus is subject to change. Changes will be announced in advance via SIS mailing list.

 
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