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
Coordinator : Jean de Kervasdoué