153-0325/02 – Health Care Economics (EKZD)
Gurantor department | Department of Public Economics | Credits | 4 |
Subject guarantor | PhDr. Mgr. Hana Fachinelli, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | PhDr. Mgr. Hana Fachinelli, Ph.D. |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Choice-compulsory |
Year | 5 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
Year of introduction | 2006/2007 | Year of cancellation | 2013/2014 |
Intended for the faculties | EKF | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
• define the theoretical resources of health policy and the subjects of health
policy
including their mission and competences
• measure the separate models of refund mechanisms for health services
financing
• compare the different health systems asserting in the EU countries
• evaluate the health insured plans of health insurance companies
• characterize the separate methods of economic analysis applied in the health
care economics
• discuss the separate phases of health care economics reform since the year
1989
Teaching methods
Lectures
Tutorials
Summary
The course deals with the main health care issues particularly the problems of finacing and allocation of the disposal resources.It focuses on quality and effectiveness of the health care in the Czech Republic and the EU.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Additional study materials
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
zadaný úkol
E-learning
Other requirements
stanovená aktivní účast na cvičeních
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1.Health policy, objectives, stages of health policy. Definition of basic terms: health, health care, health services.
2.Health Care Economics. The charakteristics of goods in Health Care, market failture in Health Care. Demand and supply of Health Care.
3.Health Care Systems in developed countries.
4.Health Care Financing. Reimbursement methods.
5.Health Care Financing. Reimbursement methods. The Secong Part.
6.Systems of Health Care Insurance.
7.Health Care Insurance companies and their role.
8.System of Healt Care institutions in the Czech Republic and their organizational structure.
9.Health Care reforms in the Czech Republic.
10.Financial management of Health Care Institutions.
11.Principles of Marketing, planning, change management in Health Care.
12.Economic methods in Health Care.
13.Ethics of Healh Care.
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction