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Dr Rocco Friebel COW 2.09

This course is compulsory on the MSc in International Health Policy. This course is available on the MSc in Global Health Policy, MSc in Health Data Science, MSc in Health Policy, Planning and Financing, MSc in International Health Policy (Health Economics) and MSc in Regulation. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.

Health care systems are complex organisational structures governed by an ambition to provide high-quality health care services to its population. In this context, governance describes a framework through which individual stakeholders are being held accountable to improving the quality of services and safe-guarding high standards of care. In turn, this framework ensures a consistent evaluation and regulation of care processes and is crucial for the efficient functioning of health care systems around the world.

This course provides a detailed perspective on the complexities surrounding the interplay between different stakeholders in the regulation of health care markets and the problems facing the management of health care services. The course builds on theoretical concepts and on principles of sound economic analysis and exposes students to learning from regulatory experiences beyond the health sector, including from data sciences, and medical research environments.

Following completion of this course, students will have an advanced understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of regulation and governance and they will be familiar with key topics of current concern, including the problems associated with health care management, planning, purchasing and commissioning, and quality of care. Knowledge drawn from this course will equip students with the necessary skills required to understand the complexities of health care regulation and governance and to critically assess policy decisions in their respective health systems.

This course will be taught in no less than 25 hours and will consist of lectures and seminars delivered in the Winter Term. 

Students will be expected to produce 1 essay in the WT.

1 x 1000 word essay. Students will be able to submit a short 1000 word essay (on any topic of their choice, but taken from the list of debates covered in the seminars