Certificate in Health Economics and Health Financing
- Lusaka, Zambia
- Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Certificate
DURATION
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: This course gives knowledge, skills and economic arguments behind health system financing. It covers health economics concepts and applications to financing, resource generation and pooling. It examines financing models, including health insurance, and effects on service delivery. The programme has 4 modules: principles of economics and health economics; health market; health services and resources; health care financing; has 3 units with 5 themes.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can move into roles in health economics, health financing, policy analysis, health insurance, public health planning, research, consultancy, NGOs, international development, supporting budgeting, economic evaluation, financial sustainability, programme design and health system analysis.
This course attempts to provide students with the knowledge, skills, and basic economic arguments that are at the heart of health system financing. It provides a brief introduction to the conceptual clarity of health economics with emphasis on practical application to health financing and understanding how health resources are generated, pooled and used. It examines the main financing models of the health system, including health insurance, and their implications for the structure, planning and delivery of services. The course includes 4 modules: i) Principles of economics and health economics, ii) Health market, iii) Health services and resources, and iv) Health care financing. Under each module, there are 3 units and under each unit, 5 description themes. A student will thus have a broad understanding of health economics and its different aspects.
