Prerequisite
HAD5011H or CHL5300H
Description
Each country’s health system and policies are largely shaped by historical, political, social and economic contexts; but in general, they have similar challenges such as rising expenditures, limited accessibility, poor patient responsiveness, limited coordination across the health continuum and public health and health system threats from both communicable and non-communicable diseases. This comparative health systems and policy course is intended to capture the rapidly expanding field of comparative studies in health systems and policy. It will provide a comprehensive theoretical and methodological foundation to understand why we compare health systems in different countries or provinces within a country and what we can learn from those comparisons. In the second part, the course will provide specific examples of health system and policy development in high income countries as well as low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs). Although this a taught course, the main requirement is to complete a major paper applying theoretical and methodological tools to a comparative health systems or comparative health policy case study including two or more jurisdictions (a province/state and/or country).
Objectives and Competencies
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Summarize a range of conceptual and theoretical issues relevant to comparative health systems and policies.
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Apply health system structures and typologies when comparing health systems.
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Compare health systems and policies among high income and LMIC countries.
- Apply the concepts and methods learned in this course to a major research paper on a topic of interest.
Instructor
Evaluation
- Proposal Summary
- 10%
- Proposal
- 20%
- Presentation
- 20%
- Final Paper
- 40%
- Participation
- 10%
HAD5778H
Comparative Health Systems and Policy
Weekly
- Date: to Time: Mon –
Exceptions
- Dates: Mon Cancelled (Winter reading week)
- Dates: Mon Cancelled (Family Day)