Syllabus
Students will acquire a general understanding of these relationships and of the role of governments and law in promoting and protecting health, including the functions of courts and legislatures in relation to health care law and policy; understand the relationship between the legal system, health care providers, and patients; understand the impact of payment/reimbursment medthods; be able to identify and analyze legal issues in health care.
After successfully completing this course, students will be able to: (i) discuss current issues of health care provision and decision making in health care, and (ii) critically analyze policies on the financing and provision of health care. The skills acquired in this course will be especially relevant for anyone wishing to pursue further studies (political, administrative, or medical) in the health care field.
Annotation
Modern health care systems struggle to reduce the burden of inappropriate health care. Inappropriate health care services increase expenditures without improving the medical condition of patients. Their main cause is a misalignment between the best interest of health care providers, the best interest of patients, and the best interest of payers.
Important information about the prerequisites: The course requires prior knowledge of economics at the level of an introductory microeconomics course (e.g., Mankiw, G.: Principles of Economics, chapters 1-19). For the Faculty of Law regular master students, this implies that they should have completed the course Theory of national economy I. Throughout the classes and exams, we will presume that the students have the requisite knowledge of this material.