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Course Syllabus

Master 2024/2025

Demography and Health Policy

Type: Elective course (Population and Development)
Area of studies: Public Administration
Delivered by: Department of Demography
Where: Faculty of Social Sciences
When: 2 year, 1 module
Mode of studies: offline
Open to: students of all HSE University campuses
Master’s programme: Population and Development
Language: English
ECTS credits: 3
Contact hours: 32

Course Syllabus

Full Syllabus

Abstract

"The course introduces students to the main demographic processes: fertility, mortality and migration. In addition to this, the course focuses on the development of the health care system and health care services. Moreover, the course provides an opportunity to evaluate the role of the state in family planning and trace the role of government and business in HCS. The course focuses on the study of open databases, the study of various methods for calculating basic demographic indicators, and theoretical approaches in demography. The advantage of the course are seminars, where students immerse in the material through reports, solving tasks and tests, modeling situations in a game form. The final control of the discipline is a final project on the topic of health care in different countries. This course is suitable for any level of knowledge in demography and public health."
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • Familiarization with the main directions of medical care in various countries of the world and the quality of medical services in the healthcare system
  • Increasing knowledge about the political, demographic and economic features of the healthcare system of the Russian Federation and other countries
  • Consideration of demographic data analysis methods required for data analysis in the healthcare system
  • Expanding knowledge about global demographic databases, as well as improving understanding of the current demographic situation about the health of the population
Expected Learning Outcomes

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Formulate the main ways to transform medicine and identify national health systems and possess medical and demographic terminology
  • Find out the possible causes and directions of health system reforms, to argue the use of basic concepts related to health policy and the health system
  • Describe the main issues of health economics, healthcare management, public economics within the health systems
  • Be able to calculate and interpret the main demographic indicators in the healthcare system, describe the main sources of medical and demographic databases and information
Course Contents

Course Contents

  • Healthcare systems: origins and components
  • Political processes and reforms in the healthcare system
  • Economic analysis of the healthcare system
  • Demographic and health surveys
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking Seminar attendance and activities at the seminars
    Problem solving, participation in a group discussion, discussion of completed homework
  • non-blocking Group project
    Presentation
  • non-blocking Essay
  • non-blocking Exam
    Written work
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • 2024/2025 1st module
    0.2 * Essay + 0.3 * Exam + 0.2 * Group project + 0.3 * Seminar attendance and activities at the seminars
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • David Cutler, & Jel No. H. (2004). Nber Working Paper Series the Role of Public Health Improvements in Health Advances. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.9FD1E7BC
  • Edwards, R. T., & McIntosh, E. (2019). Applied Health Economics for Public Health Practice and Research (Vol. First edition). Oxford: OUP Oxford. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=2155137
  • Hindrics, J. Intermediate Public Economics / Jean Hindriks, Gareth D. Myles. – 2nd ed. – Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2013. – 980 p. – Текст: электронный // DB ProQuest Ebook Central (ebrary) [сайт]. - URL: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/hselibrary-ebooks/reader.action?docID=3339608&query=Public+Economics
  • Newhouse, J. P., & Culyer, A. J. (2000). Handbook of Health Economics. Amsterdam: North Holland. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=198970
  • Rees, P. H., Clarke, M., & Stillwell, J. C. H. (2010). Population Dynamics and Projection Methods. Dordrecht: Springer. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=372159
  • Sara E. Davies, & Simon Rushton. (2016). Public health emergencies: a new peacekeeping mission? Insights from UNMIL’s role in the Liberia Ebola outbreak. Third World Quarterly, (3), 419. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2015.1110015
  • Scheffler, R. M. (2016). World Scientific Handbook Of Global Health Economics And Public Policy (A 3-volume Set). New Jersey: World Scientific. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1366923
  • Tagaeva, T. O., & Kazantseva, L. K. (2017). Public Health and Health Care in Russia. Problems of Economic Transition, 59(11/12), 973–990. https://doi.org/10.1080/10611991.2017.1431488

Recommended Additional Bibliography

  • Carr, S., Pless-Mulloli, T., & Unwin, N. (2007). An Introduction to Public Health and Epidemiology (Vol. 2nd ed). Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill Education. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=234613

Authors

  • ZININA ANGELINA IGOREVNA