- Docente: Fabrizio Tediosi
- Credits: 5
- SSD: SPS/04
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
Health Economics and Management (cod. 8880)
Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Economics and Economic Policy (cod. 8420)
Learning outcomes
By the end of the course, students will be able to: 1) Appreciate the relevance of understanding global health policy making and global health governance; 2) Analyse key global health policy issues and the links to national health policies and systems; 3) Understand the global health financing architecture; 4) Develop critical thinking on how to address current and future global health challenges
Course contents
The course examines global health issues from the standpoint of health policy and systems. It aims to provide an overview of key global health policies and an introduction to the main challenges, issues and solutions in global health.
The course will cover the following topics: Global health trends and estimates of health indicators; Global health policy landscape. Health systems approaches to global health challenges. Global governance and health. Global health financing architecture. Financing health systems and Universal Health Coverage. Evidence for global health policies.
Teaching methods
Lectures, case studies, group discussions and presentations.
10 hours of the course will be dedicated to: 1) webinars given by global health leaders on “hot topics” in global health moderated by the professor and with a Q & A session in which students will have the opportunity to interact with the leaders; 2) webinars in which the students will discuss a group work assigned to them and receive feedback from the professor.
Assessment methods
Take home exam.
Office hours
See the website of Fabrizio Tediosi