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 | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 1 | Semester | winter |
| | 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
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction