Workload: 40 hours per week
Faculty: Raymond Wagener, Hiroshi Yamabana International Labour Organization
Assessment: Presentations, assignments, written exam


Content and objectives
Workload: Nearly all policy decisions regarding national health systems must be based on the quantitative aspects of the options available, and the impact of any decisions taken. The latter is also a critical input to reform. Hence, the ability to quantitatively describe health systems as well as to create a range of hypothetical, plausible scenarios, based on new directions for those systems, is increasingly important throughout the world. The methods presented in this course allow students to construct a clear and complete description of how a health care system is financed. It furthermore illustrates how demographic, economic and social factors affect the financial ability of the system in the short and medium term. In addition, students will be trained to forecast the impact of current decisions on health expenditures in the future.


Literature

• Cichon, M., Newbrander, W., Yamabana, H., Weber, Axel, Normand, C., Dror, D. & Preker, A. (1999). Modelling in health care finance a compendium of quantitative techniques for health care financing. Geneva: International Labour Office.
• International Labour Office (2002). The ILO Population Projection Model - A Technical Guide, Geneva: International Labour Office.
• Normand, C.E.M., Weber, A., World Health Organisation & International Labour Office (1994). Social health insurance a guidebook for planning. Geneva: World Health Organization.