HSM401 Reflecting on Health Care Systems (8)
Abstract
Students examine the components of a health care system, building on their own experiences, to establish a personal development framework. They investigate definitions and models of health; how health, illness and disability are measured, particularly the determinants of health; how value can be measured and applied to different interventions and the impacts they have on health status; and how choices are made in resource allocation. Emerging trends linked to some complex and real issues confronting managers are considered in detail. |
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+ Subject Availability Modes and Location
Session 1 | Distance | Bathurst Campus | Session 2 | Distance | Bathurst Campus |
Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: HSM401
Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.
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Subject informationDuration | Grading System | School: |
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One session | HD/FL | School of Biomedical Sciences |
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Enrolment restrictions
Available only to postgraduate students in health related courses |
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Learning OutcomesUpon successful completion of this subject, students should:
- be able to describe several models of health and illness
- be able to identify, describe and analyse a variety of determinants of health;
- be able to identify, describe and analyse a model or framework of health most applicable to the health care service they are involved with;
- be able to discuss different measures of health and illness, including morbidity and mortality;
- be able to identify and evaluate the principal statistics, including demographic statistics, required to measure these concepts;
- be able to identify, describe and evaluate categories and examples of the typical measures currently used to assess performance at service and system levels of delivery;
- be able to discuss the contribution of economic theory to the process of resource allocation in a health or aged care context;
- be able to identify the role and contribution of different stakeholders to shaping the policy and delivery of health and aged care services
- be able to describe the relative significance of the principal components of health care system - by volume, cost, mode of delivery, provider, funder, sector;
- be able to analyse the performance of the health and aged care systems from perspectives of equity, accessibility, efficiency and accountability;
- be able to describe the components and characteristics of the health workforce;
- be able to evaluate the impact of gender, demographic, education, technology, economic, and industrial conditions and issues on the health workforce;
- be able to analyse the effectiveness, efficiency and acceptability of current funding arrangements from a variety of stakeholder perspectives;
- be able to discuss predictions of changes to funding models and the degree of acceptance from a variety of stakeholder perspectives;
- be able to describe health systems developments in a number of health systems other than their own;
- be able to develop an ability to reflect deeply and critically to analyse experience and new information to enhance an understanding of managerial thinking;
- be able to use the approach of reflection to integrate new insights with their current understanding of health system related issues;
- be able reflect on the differences in thinking between clinicians, clinician-managers and managers on conceptions of clinical work and accountability for the use of resources in a health or aged care context.
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SyllabusThe subject will cover the following topics:
- health concepts and models;
- demography, epidemiology and measures of health;
- health economics, technology and evaluation;
- health care stakeholders and policy;
- institutional care;
- non-institutional care;
- public-private sector relationships;
- the health workforce;
- trends in health care financing;
- trends in health care organisation;
- trends in health care management.
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The information contained in the 2015 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 01 October 2015. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.