LF:MZKEZ0322s Economy of health care - Course Information
MZKEZ0322s Economy of health care and health service providers II - p
Faculty of Medicineautumn 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/1/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. MUDr. Regina Demlová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Ing. Zuzana Vaňková, MBA (seminar tutor)
Ing. Barbora Buchtová, Ph.D. (assistant)
Mgr. Tereza Friessová (assistant)
Mgr. Bc. Alena Langaufová, Ph.D. (assistant) - Guaranteed by
- doc. MUDr. Regina Demlová, Ph.D.
Department of Health Sciences – Departments of Non-medical Branches – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: Mgr. Bc. Alena Langaufová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Health Sciences – Departments of Non-medical Branches – Faculty of Medicine - Timetable
- Thu 12. 9. 8:00–10:30 F01B2/1S06, Fri 1. 11. 13:30–15:10 F01B1/530
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- MZKEZ0221s Economy of health care
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Public Health (programme LF, N-VZDRAV)
- Course objectives
- The course describes and explains the functioning of health care as a branch of the national economy in the Czech Republic and acquaints students with the economic functioning of health care providers in our country.
The aim is to:
a) orient students in the institutional structure of the sector and the essential legislation that defines it, including the status and role of the main players.
b) to indicate to students the breadth and depth of the problems they will encounter;
c) to arouse at least some deeper interest in further study of this highly relevant and promising field. - Learning outcomes
- Students will be able to:
- independently look up the current rules for determining the total amount of reimbursement, costs of care, and prices;
- orientate in the main cost items of the health facilities (HFs);
- compare and generally interpret data on the HFs' financial conditions; - describe the main principles of financial management of the HFs. - Syllabus
- 1. Methods of reimbursement. Price-setting negotiations.
- 2. The economy of a medical facility. Structure and nature of costs (expenditures) and revenues (incomes). Meaning of case-mix.
- 3. Financial management in a medical facility; estimates of future revenue, expenses, budgeting.
- Literature
- ZLÁMAL, Jaroslav and Jana BELLOVÁ. Ekonomika zdravotnictví. Vyd. 2., upr. Brno: NCONZO, 2013, 247 s. ISBN 9788070135518. info
- Kolektiv, Zdravotní politika a její ekonomická dimenze. Elektronická učebnice, dostupná na stránkách předmětu v ISu. MU Brno, 2015.
- Teaching methods
- self-study of materials and subsequent group discussion
- Assessment methods
- Successful completion of the course is conditional on active participation in a group presentation on a selected problem and completion of the final group discussion (colloquium).
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 5.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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