Description
The Changing Health Systems module will offer an overview of the patterns of health system financing and delivery around the world as the international community moves towards the global goal of Universal Health Coverage. The module will introduce you to methods of financing services, and also to some of the evidence around delivery mechanisms in public, non-profit and private health services while evaluating these in terms of outcomes such as improved health, efficiency and equity. Recognising health as one of humanity’s most complex knowledge systems, you will discuss the political and socio-economic context that shapes attempts to change health systems.
Subjects covered include:
• Health systems frameworks and systems thinking as applied to health
• How health policy change: drivers, actors and processes
• How health systems are financed
• Primary health care
• Public-private interactions in health systems delivery
• Innovative financing
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
Last updated
This module description was last updated on 19th August 2024.
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