PUBH7614
Health Systems, Organisation and Management
Course Coordinator: Prof Philip Davies
Delivery Mode: Internal and External
Introduction
This course is one of the core courses in the MPH and introduces the concepts of goodness and fairness in health systems, showing how health systems can be effective in improving health status and its distribution across the whole population while fairly distributing the economic cost of health services.
Aims
This course aims to give students a broad introduction to the organisation and management of health systems based on principles of goodness and fairness.
Content
Specific topics include:
- The nature of health systems
- Objectives and functions of health systems
- Australian health systems
- Comparative health systems: The UK and the USA
- Comparative health systems: Health reform in DCs
- Setting priorities in health
- Economic evaluation of health care intervention
- Inequality
- Financing issues in health care
- Key themes in management thought
- The health workforce
- Managing human resource development for health
- Evaluation and the health system
Assessment
Two written assignments 80% Tutorial attendance and participation or study guide question 20%
Recommended texts
World Health Organization. (2001) The World Health Report 2000: health systems: improving performance. Geneva: WHO
Resources
Study Guide and Book of readings: These provide you with the week-by-week learning materials for each module.
The course is also supported by the online Blackboard site: which provides an interactive environment for the students and teachers. Reliable and regular access to the internet for use of the UQ Blackboard learning site is required.
Further details are provided in the Course Profile.
http://www.uq.edu.au/study/course.html?course_code=PUBH7614
Course Coordinator Contact Details
Prof Philip Davies
School of Population Health
University of Queensland
Herston Road
Herston
QLD 4006
AUSTRALIA
Phone: +61 7 334 64639
Fax: +61 7 336 55442
Email: p.davies@sph.uq.edu.au
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