HEALTH ECONOMICS AND FINANCING

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Hours

Total: 22 (Lectures - 12; Seminars – 8; Practicals – 2) ECTS: 3.3

Course Description

Students will learn how to analyze important health policy issues with basic economics. Topics for discussion include health insurance, the role of assessment and regulation in public health promotion, hospital mergers, cost-effectiveness analysis, implications of growth for healthcare providers and health care reform. The purpose of financial planning and management is to accurately record and report on financial performance of the organization, and to project and plan for performance in future operating periods.

Concept of human capital, and investment in human capital as prerequisites for economic development. Subsidiary issues in pre-accession stage related to investment in health system.

Assessment

Written Examination

Recommended Readings

1. Elias Mossialos and Julian le Grand. Health Care and Cost Containment in the European Union, The London School of Economics and Political Science; Ashgate Publishing Limited England and Ashgate Publishing Company USA
2. Health Care Systems in Transition. European Observatory on Health Care Systems. Croatia, 1999
3. Arnold Birenbaum. Managed Care Made in America; Praeger Publishers - Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. 1997
4. Robert Boissoneau. Health Care Organization and Development; An Aspen Publication, 1986
5. Stjepan Oreškovi?. New Priorities for Health Sector Reform in Central and Eastern Europe; Croatian Medical Journal 1998;39:225-233
6. Chantal T. Dorange, Muriel Haim-Nemerson. Health Targets as an Instrument for Improving the Rational Framework of Healthcare Decisions; Croatian Medical Journal 1988; 39: 332-338
7. M. F. Drummond. Principles of Economic Appraisal in Health Care; University Press, 1984
8. Peggy Watson. Explaining Rising Mortality Among Men in Eastern Europe; Vol.41. No.7, pp. 923-934, 1995
9. Centre for European Policy Studies: A European Bargain (Rapporteurs: Hager and Suhrcke), 2001
10. United Nations Development Programme Human Development Report 2001
11. V.Thomas et al The Quality of Growth Oxford University Press (for the World Bank) 2000
12. World Development Report 1993: Investing in Health. Oxford University Press, 1993

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