General description
Course description:
Course aim: Accessing and comparing global health systems
Educational outcomes: This course addresses the topic of global health to teach students the critical management skills of how to analyze the structure and functions of healthcare systems. Once mastered, these skills can be applied to evaluating systems at any level and in any type of society or environment. As the COVID-19 pandemic has shown everyone, healthcare managers operate in a world where global health issues are of immediate and critical importance to strategic and day-to-day operations.
The basic building blocks of healthcare systems and their impacts on intermediate variables, outcomes, key stakeholders, and other analytical tools will be applied to different national systems from high- and low-resource countries around the world.
Cultural, social, environmental and other variables that influence the understanding of health and illness, and the policies and systems built to address them, will be examined.
In addition to institutional healthcare systems, the roles that the market, international organizations, private entities and others play in global healthcare will be explored.