Health Systems and Policies

Code:

2GESS08

Acronym:

SPS

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Economics

Instance: 2012/2013 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Agrupamento Científico de Economia
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Health Care Economics and Management

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
GESS	25	Bologna Syllabus since 2012	1	-	7,5	56	202,5

Teaching language

Portuguese

Program

1. Health systems
2. Evaluation of health status
3. Supervision of health systems
4. Provision of healthcare services
5. Health systems financing
6. Evaluation of health systems
7. Health policies

Mandatory literature

World Health Organization; The Word Health Report 2000: Health Systems: Improving Performance, WHO, 2000. ISBN: 1020-3311
Pedro Pita Barros, Sara Ribeirinho Machado, Jorge de Almeida Simões; Portugal: Health system review, Health Systems in Transition, vol. 13, no. 4, 2011, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, 2011. ISBN: 1817-6127 Vol. 13 No. 4
World Health Organization; Portugal health system performance assessment 2010, WHO, 2010

Complementary Bibliography

Nazaré da Costa Cabral, Olívio Mota Amador, Guilherme d’Oliveira Martins (org.); A Reforma do Sector da Saúde: Uma Realidade Iminente?, Almedina, 2010. ISBN: 978-972-40-4104-9
Pedro Pita Barros; Economia da Saúde: Conceitos e comportamentos, 2ª edição revista, Almedina, 2009. ISBN: 978-972-40-3727-1
Paul Samuelson e William Nordhaus; Economia, 19ª edição, McGraw Hill, 2012. ISBN: 978-989-97172-3-7

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	42,00
First test	Exame	1,50		2013-04-19
Second test	Exame	1,50		2013-06-30
Group essay	Trabalho escrito	5,00		2013-05-31
	Total:	-	0,00