Course period: 2.
Year of study: 1. DŠ, 2. EŠ
Compulsory optional course
The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the principles of health care economics and management. Students apply the theoretical basis of health economics in the provision of health care in the Slovak Republic.
Brief module description
- Economics of health and healthcare.
- Health care delivery systems in Slovakia and in the EU.
- Basic concepts of health systems. Basic models of health systems.
- Health care reforms in the Slovak Republic.
- Provision of health care in the Slovak Republic. Management and supervision of health care in the Slovak Republic.
- Health care financing. Financial flows, sources and methods of health care financing. Ways of financing health care providers in the Slovak Republic.
- Health insurance in the Slovak Republic
- Revenues and redistribution of public health insurance. Health care expenditure.
- Principles of pricing in healthcare.
- Changes in the health care system in the Slovak Republic.
- Financial analysis in healthcare.
- Management in healthcare.
- Marketing in healthcare.
