Specialization : Organization and management of health care systems

The specialization Organization and management of health care systems is structured around four teaching modules:

1- The structure of the legislative apparatus

• Legitimacy
• Political science
• Fundamental rights
• Hierarchy of norms: law, constitution, regulations
• National and European jurisdiction
• U.N. agencies (WHO, ILO...)
• Law: the precautionary principle
• Examples from the past 100 years: tobacco, alcohol, HIV (including in developing countries), malaria ...

Pedagogical support : Case studies

2-Organization and financing of health care systems

Instruction in this module takes the form of courses on specific topics and case studies. Courses

• The organization of health care systems in developed countries
• The impact of the common European market on the regulation, financing, and allocation of health services
• Organization and financing of health care systems in low and middle income countries
• Health in low and middle income countries

Case studies

• Public health and the problem of development
• Planning health services
• Managing health programs in low and middle income countries
• Nutrition and food policies in developing countries
• Mother and child health
• Population, health, and reproduction

3- Managing public health crises

• Strategies of controlling STIs and HIV/AIDS
• The case of contaminated blood
• Chikungunya

Pedagogical support: Case studies

4- Designing, disseminating, and evaluating public health messages

• Concepts et and methods of health education
• Public health communication strategies
• The analysis of publicly-held beliefs - the case of antibiotics
• The example of tobacco
• The example of nutrition

Pedagogical support: Case studies