HEALTH ECONOMICS

SECS-P/03 - 9 CFU - 1° Semester

Teaching Staff

GIACOMO PIGNATARO


Learning Objectives

1. Knowledge and understanding: students will know and understand the functioning of healthcare systems, with respect to their organization, financing and delivery of services, as well as the main problems characterizing these systems and the way performance measurement can be a useful information tool for the policies dealing with such problems. Lectures represent the means for the realization of this objective.

2. Applying knowledge and understanding: students will acquire skills for the evaluation of allocative problems characterizing healthcare systems and their components, and will apply knowledge on their functioning as well as the performance measurement tools. Students will be able to evaluate the results of performance measurement in the light of the identification of the most effective policies for improving the outcomes of healthcare systems and the accountability of providers of services. The main tool for the realization of this objective is the preparation of a project work at the end of the course.

3. Making judgments: students will critically assess data, reports and other works on the different aspects of the functioning of healthcare systems and on healthcare policies, identifying the success factors and the challenges facing the systems and the policies. Moments of interaction and active participation of students, during the lectures, with the help of digital tools, will contribute to the realization of this objective.

4. Communication skills: students will gain communication skills and appropriateness in the use of technical language, by means of interaction and active participation activities. The presentation of their project works to the class will also contribute to this objective.

5. Learning skills: the learning skills of students will be improved through an appropriate interaction, the preparation of class presentations, the independent study of parts of the program, which will be presented during lectures along very general lines, and then studied independently by each student.


Course Structure

The course will be structured through lectures; interaction and active participation activities, managed by students, some of them realized with the help of digital tools; practice classes and seminars providing a support for the preparation of the project work. Students will read the teaching material beforehand, especially for preparing class presentations and active participation activities.



Detailed Course Content

A – ORGANIZATION AND FINANCING OF HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS

 

B – THE FUNCTIONING OF HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS AND HEALTHCARE POLICIES

 

C – THE EVALUATION OF HEALTHCARE POLICIES AND THE MEASUREMENT OF PERFORMANCE



Textbook Information

  1. R. Levaggi e S. Capri (2013), Economia Sanitaria, Franco Angeli, chapters 1, 2, 3, 9, 10
  2. G. Turati (2013), The Italian Servizio Sanitario Nazionale: A renewing tale of lost promises, in J. Costa-Font, S.L. Greer (eds.), Federalism and decentralization in European health and social care, Palgrave MacMillan, p. 47-66
  3. E. Caruso e N. Dirindin (2011), Costi e fabbisogni standard nel settore sanitario: le ambiguit  del decreto legislativo n. 68 del 2011, Quaderni del Dipartimento di Economia, Fin anza e Statistica dell'Università di Torino, n. 100, p. 1-26
  4. G. Arachi e A. Zanardi (2010), Tutto ruota intorno ai fabbisogni standard, Lavoce.info, p. 1-3
  5. CERGAS Bocconi (2020), Rapporto OASI 2020, chap. 2, 3
  6. I. Papanicolas e P.C. Smith (2013), Health system performance comparison, Euroepean Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, Open University Press, chapters 5, 6, 7, 8, 10

For those interested to further readings on the topics under A and B, in an international perspective: J.Bhattacharya, T.Hide e P.Tu (2013), Health Economics, Macmillan International Higher Education (especially chapters 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 16, 17, 18).




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