LF:BDEK061 Economy and health insurance - Course Information
BDEK061 Economy and health insurance
Faculty of MedicineSpring 2014
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Pavlína Kaňová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. MUDr. Bc. Zuzana Derflerová Brázdová, DrSc. (assistant) - Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Pavlína Kaňová, Ph.D.
Department of Social Medicine and Health Care Administration – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: Jana Sovová
Supplier department: Department of Social Medicine and Health Care Administration – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine - Timetable
- Fri 21. 2. 11:40–13:20 B11/211, Fri 7. 3. 11:40–13:20 KOM 409, Fri 21. 3. 11:40–13:20 KOM 409, Fri 4. 4. 11:40–13:20 KOM 409
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- BDMA051 Management in Nursing
- 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
- General Nurse (programme LF, B-OS)
- Course objectives
- By the end of this course student should be able to: describe basic theories and concepts of health economics; explain the causes of market failures in health care; describe the basic models of health care systems; describe health care financing and expenditures in the Czech Republic; describe basic types and principles of health insurance; list criteria for the evaluation of health care services; apply methods for the economic evaluation of health care services; understand possibilities and limitations of economic analyses in the health care system.
- Syllabus
- Economic issues of health systems
- Basic concepts in health economics
- Competition in health care
- Measuring costs
- cost-effectiveness analysis
- cost-benefit analysis
- Health financing
- Health insurance
- Cost of illness
- Economics and new public health.
- Literature
- required literature
- NĚMEC, Jiří. Principy zdravotního pojištění. 1. vyd. Praha: Grada, 2008, 240 s. ISBN 9788024726281. info
- Teaching methods
- lecture and seminar
- Assessment methods
- oral exam
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: Celkem 8 hodin.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2014, recent)
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