Educational objectives Knowledge and understanding
This course uses tools form microeconomic theory to study the characteristics of healthcare markets and understand the motivation of government intervention in these markets. The study of government regulation, including their theoretical and empirical impacts on health care markets, will be integrated throughout these topics.
Applying knowledge and understanding
The course aims at making students able to apply concepts of industrial organization and economics of market regulation to analyse central questions in health care today, as well as fundamental issues in health policy: for example, what is the current role of the government in the health sector, and what it should it be? What is the social insurance role of the government, and how is it played out in policies that impact the health of the population? How are physician and pharmaceutical markets structured?
Making judgement
Students will develop the ability to judge autonomously, from a theoretical and practical perspective, healthcare market structures according to efficiency and equity criteria. Students will also be able to study and understand the implications of policy interventions in these markets.
Communication skills
Students will develop the ability to communicate specific issues related to healthcare markets to specialist and non-specialist interlocutors. These skills will be tested both by asking students to prepare an oral presentation to the class and to write essays on specific topics selected in agreement with the instructor.
Learning Skills
Students will acquire in-depth knowledge of the main healthcare market models, their regulations and on the main models to evaluate policy intervention on the health sector. They will also be able to elaborate autonomously research questions that can be further developed in the final dissertation.
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Educational objectives Knowledge and understanding
Students will know the reference institutions (WHO, UN, IARC, Ministry of Health, ISS, etc.), the concepts of disease prevention and health promotion, the main health indicators (socio-health, demographic, health), the major transitions (demographic, epidemiological, of care), the "Burden of Diseases" and the "Big Killers" at national and international level, the Sustainable Development Goals, the main causes of morbidity and mortality, the "vulnerable" populations, risk factors and the Framingham Heart Study, lifestyles and addictions, the "Tobacco Epidemic" and "Big Tobacco", the relationship between environment and health, the concepts of Advocacy, Empowerment, Health Literacy, the health education campaigns, the prevention strategies based on the individual person and on the population.
Applying knowledge and understanding
The course aims at making students able to recognize and tackle health threats, prevent “ill-health” and premature deaths, promote the spread of healthy behaviours, steer policy makers to consider the health of people and of the environment as key elements of politics and give priority to all those decisions that can improve the quality of life; to be able to use the EBM principles for the evaluation of interventions in health organizations; and to be able to adopt professional behaviours based on the principles of Clinical Governance, in line with the principles of equity, effectiveness and efficiency of health care.
Making judgement
Students will develop the ability to judge the principles of Clinical Governance can be applied in the health sector; how the principles of assessment of appropriateness, health care and performance of health activities can be applied and assessed; how to use the tools for the evaluation of health technologies, health-related quality of life, economic evaluations in health, of Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) and Risk Management in health organizations.
Communication skills
Students will develop the ability to communicate specific issues related to healthcare issues to specialist and non-specialist interlocutors.
Learning Skills: Students will acquire in-depth knowledge of the main issues related to the application of information technologies for health. They will also be able to elaborate autonomously research questions that can be further developed in the final dissertation.
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