Syllabi and course schedule from Comparative International Health Systems course taught by Nancy Short, DrPH, MBA, RN, Duke University. Syllabus includes links to several resources related to assignments and readings.
Course Description: Financing and organizing health and sickness care throughout the world spans a broad spectrum. The interconnectedness of health systems will be explained in terms of the classic Milton-Roemer model. In this class, students will become “experts” about a health system of their choice outside the United States. We will examine a range of health systems with respect to their own published data, as well as data collected, and analyses conducted, by international organizations, e.g. the World Health Organization (WHO), Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the World Bank, and UNICEF. Students will analyze and compare four models (Beveridge, Bismarck, National Health Insurance and Out-of-Pocket) in terms of quality, access and cost of care. Emerging health care system structures and the pressures experienced by each will be analyzed in terms of current epidemiological transitions.
