Introduction to Health Systems

2 Credits · Level: Graduate

This course introduces the idea of health systems and various models of health systems around the world. It reviews the underlying discourse around understanding health systems, health systems performance, and complexities in health systems. We start with exploring the ideational questions of conceptualizing health and health systems through a historic analysis of the evolution of various health systems frameworks and contributions of various disciplines to the knowledge of the meaning, performance, and complexity of health systems. We then engage with different types of health systems stressing models of health care financing and provisioning around the world through country-specific case studies. The course will engage with the current issues around the performance of the health systems around the world.