Developing and Leading Global Healthcare Systems
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| EPID4026 | School of Medicine | 4 | 10 | Spring UK |
- Code
- EPID4026
- School
- School of Medicine
- Level
- 4
- Credits
- 10
- Semesters
- Spring UK
Summary
• Introduction to Health and Healthcare Systems: Structure, components and organisations to cover What is a healthcare system? The relationship between the state and a healthcare system and What does a healthcare system do?
• Introduction to the WHO six building blocks approach and other frameworks for health systems strengthening
• Comparative health systems: Describing individual health care systems: strengths and weaknesses including an introduction to the UK health care system
• Performance monitoring in healthcare systems: Why does it matter?
• Managing knowledge and evidence: measuring outcomes and introduction to health information.
• Overview of prioritisation and rationing in decision-making.
• An introduction to management and management theories.
• Leadership in healthcare: Organisational culture and change management.
• link the basic principles of management and organisational theory to specific challenges and applications within the field of public health
• illustrate how leadership skills can contribute to responsive, efficient and effective public health services
• Provide students with the critical skills to analyse and understand the underpinning social, economic and political contexts of health policies, and the factors that influence the development and impact in specific public health system contexts
• Provide critical insight into policy efforts to strengthen public health systems in different contexts
• Develop a critical appreciation of how health systems in particular contexts might be strengthened through policy initiatives
Target Students
Primarily postgraduate students on the Master of Public Health, Master of Public Health (Global Health) and Master of Public Health (Research Methods). Places will be available to new staff and PhD students in School of Medicine who require training as part of their research role.
Classes
- One 2-hour lecture each week for 12 weeks
Assessment
- 100% Coursework 1: 2500 words or equivalent
Assessed by end of spring semester
Educational Aims
To introduce students to methods by which health care systems may be described to assist in the understanding and exploration of the various functions of those systems, particularly public health functions. To explore the theoretical underpinning of leadership and management within health systems.Learning Outcomes
Critical knowledge and understanding of health and healthcare systems, including conceptual frameworks for health systems strengthening
Critical knowledge and understanding of governance, leadership, management and change management including conceptual frameworks and how these apply to public health and health care
Critical knowledge and understanding of how policy shape and influence public health and healthcare
Systematically identify, locate and retrieve public information
Apply public health techniques to analyse public health problems
Make evidence based recommendations on public health issues