Health Systems in a Global Perspective: Methods and Applications

In this elective, advanced level course you will develop your skills and abilities to conduct policy relevant analyses of health care systems across different countries and contexts. Using a mix of interactive learning tools and challenging cases, the course will give you an opportunity to develop critical skills for assessing and comparing health systems with respect to their organization, financing, and ability to provide services in an equitable and effective way. 

The course is a 7,5 ECTS, full-time online-only course consisting of lectures, seminars and group exercises. 

The course is organized around five parts:

• Part 1: Introduction to health systems in a global perspective.
• Part 2: Data analysis for global health systems evaluation.
• Part 3: Health care financing for equity and efficiency.
• Part 4: Health systems performance assessment.
• Part 5: Health systems reform for universal health coverage (UHC).

In each part, students will be asked to complete specific tasks with a view to developing the necessary conceptual understanding and technical skills to contribute to policy relevant health systems analysis in various contexts. 

The course will provide future health system professionals with the necessary theoretical and practical skills to contribute to health system strengthening and reform. The course targets students interested in working in various contexts, such as the World Health Organization (WHO), international civil society organizations, national and regional health authorities, and the private sector. 

Prerequisites

Bachelor's degree in public health, medicine, health sciences or social sciences or an equivalent discipline.

Selection criteria

Seats are allocated according to: ECTS (HPAV): 100 %.

Tuition fees for non-EU/EEA citizens

Citizens of countries outside:

• The European Union (EU)
• The European Economic Area (EEA) and
• Switzerland

are required to pay tuition fees. You pay an instalment of the tuition fee in advance of each
semester.

Tuition fees, payments and exemptions

Full programme/course tuition fee: SEK 25,625
First payment: SEK 25,625

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Note that you may also need to pay an application fee, or provide proof of exemption.

Application fee

No tuition fees for citizens of the EU, EEA and Switzerland

There are no tuition fees for citizens of the European Union (EU), the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland.