153-0355/01 – Economics of the Health Care and Social Security (EZaSZ)
| Gurantor department | Department of Public Economics | Credits | 6 |
| Subject guarantor | Ing. Ivana Vaňková, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | Ing. Ivana Vaňková, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | | |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2013/2014 | Year of cancellation | 2020/2021 |
| Intended for the faculties | EKF | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
– classify, categorize and analyze instruments and mechanisms of financing
social heath system and ways of construction of separate programs;
– assess means of financing and approaches to structure of benefits and
services from the point of view of their strong and weak points;
– discuss applicability of instruments of financing in individual programs of
the system;
– suggest changes in financing with regard to increase of efectivity of
social health system and minimization of disincentive effects.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Tutorials
Summary
Předmět je zaměřen na teori a praxi ekonomiky sociálně zdravotního systému v ČR v kontextu přístupů zemí EU-OECD, vč. ekonomiky organizací zajišťujících sociální služby a zdravotní péči.
Compulsory literature:
BARR, Nicholas. The Economics of the Welfare State. 5th. edition. Oxford niversity Press and Standford University Press, 2012. 416 p. ISBN 978-0-19-92981-8.
Recommended literature:
Additional study materials
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
E-learning
Other requirements
– completing tasks set in seminars
– test
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
– Aims, functions and efficiency of social health system.
– Means of financing in income, expenditure and process – sources of
financing, technology, methods and plans of financing, ways of structuring
insurance and benefits.
– Health care, factors of supply and demand of health care, models of health
care management and financing, methods of refunding expenses to health care
providers.
– Construction of public health insurance programs; purpose and organization
of private health insurance in the Czech Republic; financial management of
health insurance companies in the Czech Republic.
– Economics of health care institutions, organizations; marketing basics,
planning.
– Managing changes in health care; economic evaluation of health care
service benefits.
– Approaches to structure of social security programs in EU-OECD countries
and in the Czech Republic – social situations , conceptions, instruments of
financing, ways, criteria and instruments of programs dynamization,
constructions of benefits, adjustment mechanisms; unemployment benefits,
old age benefits, sickness and disability benefits, survivor s benefits,
family benefits, benefits in the poverty.
– Economics of social services – sources and instruments of financing and
principles of financial management of corporate entity.
Conditions for subject completion
Conditions for completion are defined only for particular subject version and form of study
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction