- Docente: Fabrizio Tediosi
- Credits: 6
- SSD: SECS-P/02
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
Economics and Economic Policy (cod. 8420)
Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Health Economics and Management (cod. 5902)
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from Sep 20, 2023 to Oct 20, 2023
Learning outcomes
The course aims to present to the students recent topics in the field of Global Health. The course will mainly focus on critical assessment of recent health care reforms in LMICs; efforts to extend coverage of health care and improve universal coverage; issues in financing schemes of health care in LMIC; definition of healthcare policy priorities and the assessment of economic burden of disease in LMICs; the role of NGOs and multilateral institutions; key policy interventions on prevention, workforce planning, capacity building.
Course contents
This course examines global health issues from a health policy and systems perspective. It aims to provide an overview of key global health policies and an introduction to key global health challenges, issues and solutions.
The course covers 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 policy.
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
30% Group assignment
70% Open books exam.
Office hours
See the website of Fabrizio Tediosi