MPV_EKZD Economy of Health Care

Faculty of Economics and Administration
Spring 2010
Extent and Intensity
2/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. JUDr. Ivan Malý, CSc. (lecturer)
Ing. Zuzana Kotherová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Ing. Veronika Krůtilová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
doc. JUDr. Ivan Malý, CSc. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. JUDr. Ivan Malý, CSc.
Department of Public Economics – Faculty of Economics and Administration
Contact Person: Mgr. Kateřina Kociánová
Timetable
Wed 12:50–14:30 S309
  • Timetable of Seminar Groups:
MPV_EKZD/01: Wed 14:35–16:15 S309, Z. Kotherová, I. Malý
Prerequisites (in Czech)
! PVEKZD Economy of Health Care
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
This course has a specialising character. It focuses on the mission, function, and processes typical for these sectors, national-economic relationships of both governmental and communal policies. It offers a review of the structure of services and their economy, funding, and efficiency, institutional structure and management system, organization and management of institutions, legal regulation of the services and development trends. The aim is:
a) to provide students with a comprehensive compendium of knowledge, which would enable its practical application to the specialisation and outline the extent and complexity of problems that must be faced by economists, which is a prerequisite for a further growth of qualification after graduates start their career in practice;
b) to arouse a deep interest in further study of this highly topical and prospective economic discipline;
c) to exercise students’ capability to apply methods of economic analysis to concrete examples and formulate their own views of controversial issues of theory and practice (or support them with arguments).
Syllabus
  • 1. Health. Measuring health. Epidemiology. Health policy. Values, objectives, tools. Equity, social justice.
  • 2. HC systems. Typology. Difficulties in HC systems comparisons and evaluations. Health care reforms in developed countries.
  • 3. Health Care as a topic for economic theory. Basic obstacles for using methods of economic analysis.
  • 4. Goods produced by HC, HC markets. Third party payer principle and its impact on behaviour of actors.
  • 5. Economic methods in Health Care. CEA, CUA, CBA.
  • 6. Demand for health care. Induced demand. Rationalization. Co-payments.
  • 7. Health Insurance. Friedman-Savage utility function. Demand for insurance. Health Insurance market. Adverse selection.
  • 8. HC Supply. Competition on health care (quasi)markets. Rationalization tools.
  • 9. HC Financing. Reimbursement methods.
  • 10. Czech Helath care. 1990-2004 Reform, Current situation.
  • 11. Financing HC in the Czech Republic. HC insurance, HC Insurance companies and their role. Reimbursement methods. Managed care as a principle of current reform.
  • 12. HC facilities as a companies. Cost, revenues. Financial management, budgets.
  • 13. Quality of care.
  • 14. Strategic management in HC - specific features. Public Administration role.
Literature
    required literature
  • KUVÍKOVÁ, Helena, Milan MURGAŠ and Juraj NEMEC. Ekonómia zdravotníctva. 1. vyd. Banska Bystrica: Phoenix, 1995, 110 s. ISBN 80-900563-1-8. info
  • MALÝ, Ivan. Problém optimální alokace zdrojů ve zdravotnictví (An Optimal Resource Allocation in the Health Care). první vydání. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1998, s. 114. ISBN 80-210-2006-7. info
  • POTŮČEK, Martin. Veřejná politika. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství (SLON), 2005, 399 s. ISBN 8086429504. info
    recommended literature
  • DRUMMOND, Michael, G. L. STODDART and George W. TORRANCE. Methods for the economic evaluation of health care programmes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987, x, 182. ISBN 0192616013. info
  • FELDSTEIN, Paul J. Health care economics. 5th ed. Clifton Park: Delmar, 2002, xxiii, 627. ISBN 0-7668-0699-5. info
    not specified
  • HOLČÍK, Jan, Adolf ŽÁČEK and Ilona KOUPILOVÁ. Sociální lékařství. 2. dopl. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita v Brně, 1998, 137 s. ISBN 8021019077. info
Teaching methods
lectures; group discussions,; readings
Assessment methods
Requirements for being eligible to take the examination include: at least 50% of points from two midterm tests; The final grade is composed from: 10% activity in seminars, 30% 1st midterm, 30% 2nd midterm, 30% oral exam.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
General note: Nezapisují si studenti, kteří absolvovali předmět PVEKZD.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015.
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