153-0355/01 – Economics of the Health Care and Social Security (EZaSZ)

Gurantor departmentDepartment of Public EconomicsCredits6
Subject guarantorIng. Ivana Vaňková, Ph.D.Subject version guarantorIng. Ivana Vaňková, Ph.D.
Study levelundergraduate or graduateRequirementCompulsory
Year1Semesterwinter
Study languageCzech
Year of introduction2013/2014Year of cancellation2020/2021
Intended for the facultiesEKFIntended for study typesFollow-up Master
Instruction secured by
LoginNameTuitorTeacher giving lectures
LAN075 Ing. Eva Kovářová, Ph.D.
ROS06 Ing. Ivana Vaňková, Ph.D.
Extent of instruction for forms of study
Form of studyWay of compl.Extent
Full-time Credit and Examination 3+2

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:

FELDSTEIN, Paul, j. Health Care Economics. 6.th. ed. New York: Thomson Delmar Learning, 2005. 627 p. ISBN 140-1859-79-8.

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

Full-time form (validity from: 2013/2014 Winter semester, validity until: 2020/2021 Summer semester)
Task nameType of taskMax. number of points
(act. for subtasks)
Min. number of pointsMax. počet pokusů
Exercises evaluation and Examination Credit and Examination 100 (100) 51
        Exercises evaluation Credit 40 (40) 21
                test Written test 30  17 2
                aktivity ve cvičeních Other task type 10  4
        Examination Examination 60  11 3
Mandatory attendence participation:

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Occurrence in study plans

Academic yearProgrammeBranch/spec.Spec.ZaměřeníFormStudy language Tut. centreYearWSType of duty
2018/2019 (N6202) Economic Policy and Administration (6202T055) Public Economics and Administration P Czech Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan
2017/2018 (N6202) Economic Policy and Administration (6202T055) Public Economics and Administration P Czech Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan
2016/2017 (N6202) Economic Policy and Administration (6202T055) Public Economics and Administration P Czech Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan
2015/2016 (N6202) Economic Policy and Administration (6202T055) Public Economics and Administration P Czech Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan
2014/2015 (N6202) Economic Policy and Administration (6202T055) Public Economics and Administration P Czech Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan
2013/2014 (N6202) Economic Policy and Administration (6202T055) Public Economics and Administration P Czech Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan
2013/2014 (N6202) Economic Policy and Administration (6202T055) Public Economics and Administration (00) Public Economics and Administration P Czech Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan

Occurrence in special blocks

Block nameAcademic yearForm of studyStudy language YearWSType of blockBlock owner
Subject block without study plan - EKF - P - cs 2019/2020 Full-time Czech Optional EKF - Faculty of Economics stu. block

Assessment of instruction



2018/2019 Winter
2017/2018 Winter
2016/2017 Winter
2015/2016 Winter
2013/2014 Winter