MPH5308 · Developing health systems

Overview

This unit aims to develop skills to describe and analyse health systems and assess health sector reforms (or health system reforms) in both developed and developing countries, including Australia. The unit will introduce you to alternative conceptual frameworks for describing and analysing health systems, and focuses in particular on one - "the control knobs framework" - which describes the key levers of a health system and how these levers work to influence outcomes of interest such as equity, cost, financial risk protection and quality of care. The control knobs framework is used to describe and analyse health system outcomes in developed and developing countries (including Australia); diagnose existing policy reform challenges; shed light on ongoing health policy debates; and assess a recent case of reform in the health sector.

Offerings

Assessment

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

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

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Comprehend a systematic theoretical framework for describing the design of a national health system.
2. Identify issues and challenges in the design of national health systems.
3. Critically appraise research and reports associated with health system development and reform.
4. Create proposals to respond to issues and challenges faced by national health systems.
5. Effectively communicate issues and challenges associated with reforming and developing health systems to specialist and non-specialist audiences.

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.