MPH5301 · Health systems and policy

Overview

The aim of this unit is to provide health service managers and public health practitioners with a comprehensive understanding of the major components of national health systems and how health policy is created to adapt and reform these systems. Over 6 weekly modules you will explore relevant policy theories, stakeholders and policy actors and processes that address major health policy challenges. Each module includes an overview of the relevant concepts and resources, guided readings and online, instructor moderated, discussions of applied issues with student peers.

Areas of study: Public health

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment in this unit includes hurdle assessment tasks. Failure of any hurdle assessment task may result in failure of the unit

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Outline the key structural components of national health systems.
2. Analyse the structure of their own health system.
3. Apply policy theories to contemporary health policy issues.
4. Analyse formal and informal sources of information guiding health system and policy development.
5. Analyse policy stakeholders and their policy interests.
6. Evaluate the role of the policy making process.
7. Critically appraise existing health policies.
8. Compose arguments on health systems and policy development.

Workload

24 hours per week including directed and self-directed learning (including any asynchronous and synchronous tasks, prescribed activities and independent work).

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.