Course description

• Course content
• Learning outcome
• Admission
• Overlapping courses

• Teaching
• Examination

Course content

The course aims to introduce the principles of health care organization and policy in a comparative perspective, identify the key characteristics and components of health care systems, assess each health care system¡¯s strengths and weaknesses, and discuss the recent health care reform efforts in OECD countries.

Learning outcome

Knowledge

You will gain knowledge of:

• The evolutionary path of European health care systems
• Main models of health care funding, including the differences between tax based models, SHI-models and models based on voluntary insurance
• Models of health care provision, including differences between individual and institutional providers and between public and private providers
• Types of financing systems; models for prospective/retro?spective and activity based/fixed funding.
• Health care reforms over the last two decades
• National and international political economy of health governance

Skills

You will learn how to:

• Describe different health care systems
• Describe and understand risk adjustment, incentives and equity/inequity-making mechanisms
• Evaluate the performance of health care systems

General competence

 You will be able to:

• Recognize the pros and cons of different health care systems
• Understand trends in health care system development
• Understand global governance of health care systems

Admission

Students who are admitted to study programmes at UiO must each semester register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for in Studentweb.

If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures.

Overlapping courses

• 5 credits overlap with HMM4202 ¨C Structure, organization and financing of health care systems (discontinued)
• 5 credits overlap with HME4202 ¨C Structure, organization and financing of health care systems (discontinued)
• 5 credits overlap with HME4204 ¨C Health Politics and Welfare State Theories (discontinued)

Teaching

Lectures

Examination

Written examination

Grading

The Board at the University of Oslo has decided to introduce detailed guidelines for all examinations, which take place at the University. The description of the grading should be clear and transparent. This is done to ensure alignment between learning outcomes, assignments, and grading. The Faculty of Medicine has developed a web page with information regarding exams and the grading procedures (norwegian version).

Examination support material

No examination support material is allowed.

Use of sources and citation

You should familiarize yourself with the rules that apply to the use of sources and citations. If you violate the rules, you may be suspected of cheating/attempted cheating.

Language of examination

For students at Eu-HEM: English

For students at HEPAM: The examination set will be given in English. Answers can be given in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or in English.

Grading scale

Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F is a fail. Read more about the grading system.

Explanations and appeals

• Explanation of grades and appeals

Resit an examination

For HEPMA students:

• Illness at exams / postponed exams
• Resitting an examination

For Eu-HEM students:

An EU-hem student cannot present her or himself for the examination in a course more than two times. There will be held re-sits for EU-hem students who have failed an exam or who have legitimate absence (usually illness) in January and August. If you are entitled to a re-sit you must contact the student advisor via email no longer than one week after the result of the exam has been published.

Withdrawal from an examination

It is possible to take the exam up to 3 times. If you withdraw from the exam after the deadline or during the exam, this will be counted as an examination attempt.