FAEZ1_11 Economics of Health Care

Faculty of Pharmacy
Autumn 2020
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
PharmDr. Bc. Dana Mazánková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
PharmDr. Bc. Dana Mazánková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
PharmDr. Bc. Dana Mazánková, Ph.D.
Department of Applied Pharmacy – Departments – Faculty of Pharmacy
Timetable
each odd Monday 10:30–12:00 45-224
  • Timetable of Seminar Groups:
FAEZ1_11/01: each odd Monday 12:00–13:30 45-224
Prerequisites (in Czech)
FAKULTA(FaF) || OBOR(MUSFaF)
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/15, only registered: 0/15
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the subject is introduction to the problems of the health care provision (in conditions of the mixed economics). Decision making in public sector, economic aspects of the providing medical and hospital services (from the view of its competition), cost effectiveness, regulation of the supply and demand in public health, types and conception of pharmacoeconomic analysis and rational pharmacotherapy and its efficiency compose the object matter of the subject.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, the student will be able to:
- Understand the basic principles of market functioning;
- Understand the creation of supply, demand and prices in the market, their mutual influence;
- Identify how competition between market subjects works with a focus on healthcae;
- Orientate in the provision of healthcare with a focus on its effectiveness;
- Know how the healthcare system is financed;
- Know the drugs policy and the instruments applied;
- Understand the principles of rational drug therapy from the point of view of economic efficiency and its evaluation.
Syllabus
  • Lectures:
    1. Introductory lecture to Health Care Economics: Scarce resources, wants. Market, supply, demand, price theory. Perfect and imperfect competition. Private and non-private estates, externalities.
    2. Competition on health care markets difference from classical markets. Organization of health services. Competition on health care markets - according to levels of provided health services. Forms of health care financing.
    3. Efficienty, effectiveness, equity in health care. "The Magical Triangle".
    4. Health care policy and drug policy and its tools. Principles and rules of generic substitution in EU countries. Introduction to pharmacoeconomic evaluation.
    5. Pharmacoeconomics and outcome research, value of medicine. Perspectives of pharmacoeconomic evaluations. Costs of treatment alternatives. Consequences (outcomes) of treatment alternatives.
    6. Structures of economic evaluations, pharmacoeconomic methods and its principles, outcome research.
    Seminars:
    1. Introductory interactive seminar to Health Care Economics: Supply of health care in conditions of public economics - examples from health care system - demand, supply, estates, externalities.
    2. Interactive seminar - Competition on health care markets, difference from classical markets - examples from classical markets and health care markets.
    3. Interactive seminar - Effectiveness and equity in health care work with the Magical Triangle.
    4. Interactive seminar - Generic substitution in EU countries.
    5. Interactive seminar - Evaluation of pharmacoeconomic study.
    6. Substitution of non-attended seminars. Evaluation of the course - credit test.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • Drummond, F. Michael, Sculpher, J. Mark, Claxton, Karl, Stoddart. Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes. Oxford Medical Publications, 4th Edition, 2015. ISBN 978-0199665884. info
  • Rascati, L. Karen. Essentials of Pharmacoeconomics. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott W, 2014. ISBN 978-1451175936. info
  • Sechser, Tomáš. Racionální farmakoterapie. Praha: Ramedia, 2006. ISBN 80-903555-1-X. info
  • Křížová, Eva. Zdravotnické systémy v mezinárodním srovnání. 1998. ISBN 80-238-0937-7. info
  • Fuchs, Kamil. Základy mikroekonomie. Brno, 1996. ISBN 80-210-1218-8. info
  • Kuvíková, Helena, Murgaš, Milan, Nemec, Juraj. Ekonómia zdravotníctva. Banská Bystrica: Phoenix, 1995. info
Teaching methods
Lectures - theoretical preparation. Seminars - group projects and their presentations (seminar works), discussions, brainstorming.
Assessment methods
Continuous evaluation of the outputs of seminars prepared by students. Evaluation of presented seminar works. The credit test is based only on the issues solved at the seminars. The final exam is in written form.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
Conditions for passing a course:
1.100% participation in seminars and working-out setting of seminars (seminar sheets)
- in the case of non-attened seminars is necessary:
- send written excuse to guarantor of course, and
- its substitution in the last seminar (necessary before writing a credit test) at last
2.Presentation of a seminar work
3.Successfull passing of a credit test
- term of a credit test: in the last seminar
4.Passing an exam from a course - form of written exam
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.
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