Health Financing

Syllabus for course at advanced level

 

Course Name

Health Financing                                                                                          

 

Course code           : HF2111101 (Core)

Department             : Department of Health Policy and Management

Main field                : Health Policy and Management

Term : Semester 1

Time commitment : 120 hours

 

Prerequisites and special admittance requirements

Admitted to the master’s program in Health Policy and Management.

 

Course content

The majority of health systems combine public and private funding sources with alternative methods of providing care. requires a health system to function effectively. The goal of health financing is to increase participants’ proficiency in outlining, carrying out, and evaluating a system or plan for health funding. By the end of the course, participants will be able to execute a health financing scheme in their locality, explain one in an organized manner, evaluate the effectiveness of the scheme, and recommend improvements. There are four modules in the course, and they are all required. The goal of this course is to give students the financial tools necessary for managers of public health and healthcare services to make better operational, strategic, and financial decisions.

 

Learning objectives

After completing the course the student should be able to:

  1. Acknowledge the normative and constructive underpinnings of health care financing, paying particular attention to the discussion of equality, universal health coverage, and health systems transformation.
  2. Distinguish between various health financing models and functions in various health system environments.
  3. Examine and contrast the fundamental elements of health care funding systems in high-, middle-, and low-income nations, taking into account circumstances related to refugee and migrant crisis.
  4. Evaluate the public and private sectors’ contributions to the funding of health care in various circumstances.
  5. Examine the advantages and disadvantages of the various instruments utilized in the creation and evaluation of finance systems.
  6. Address issues with the health systems in each of their different nations, evaluate and compare the merits of several workable approaches for financing health care.

 

Topics

  1. Conceptual Framework for Health Financing and Stakeholders
  2. Health Financing Function Reform
  3. Health Financing in Different Countries
  4. Universal Health Coverage
  5. Revenue Collection and social health insurance
  6. Pooling Concept
  7. Strategic Purchasing Concept
  8. Health Economics and Priority Setting
  9. Indicators of success of the Health Insurance programme: Access and Equity in Health Financing and Quality of Health Services
  10. Introduction and Analysis Using Health Account Data
  11. Health Financing at the Central and Local Levels
  12. Challenges in Health Financing

 

Education

The teaching consists of:

  • Lectures
  • Self-study through eLearning
  • Quizzes/assignments/discussion forum in eLearning: Case-based learning
  • Online synchronous discussion
  • Case based tutorials

The teaching is delivered through a combination of 60% in-person classes and 40% online classes.

 

Forms of examination

The course is examined through:

  • Skill-based assessment, 10%
  • Assignments, 30%
  • Quiz, 10%
  • Written final exam, 50%

 

Required readings

  1. Kutzin, J., Cashin.C., Jakab. M., 2010, Implementing Health Financing Reform, WHO Europe
  2. Lu, M., Jonsson, E., 2008, Financing Health Care, Wiley-VCH
  3. Preker, A.S., Liu, X., Velenyi, E.V., Baris, E., 2007, Public Ends, Private Means : Strategic Purchasing of Health Services
  4. Rokx, C., Schieber, G., Harimurti, P., Tandon, A., Somanathan, A., 2009, Health Financing in Indonesia: a reform road map, World Bank
  5. World bank, 2006, Health Financing Revisited: Practitioner Guide