| Dozent/in |
Ass.-Prof. David Weisstanner |
| Veranstaltungsart |
Masterseminar |
| Code |
FS231295 |
| Semester |
Frühjahrssemester 2023 |
| Durchführender Fachbereich |
Gesundheitswissenschaften |
| Studienstufe |
Master |
| Termin/e |
Di, 21.02.2023, 14:15 - 18:00 Uhr, HS 11
Di, 28.02.2023, 14:15 - 18:00 Uhr, HS 3
Di, 07.03.2023, 14:15 - 18:00 Uhr, HS 3
Di, 14.03.2023, 14:15 - 18:00 Uhr, Externer Standort, PH 2. OG: Raum 2.A05
Di, 21.03.2023, 14:15 - 18:00 Uhr, Externer Standort, PH 2. OG: Raum 2.A05
Di, 28.03.2023, 14:15 - 18:00 Uhr, HS 3
Di, 04.04.2023, 14:15 - 18:00 Uhr, HS 3
Di, 18.04.2023, 14:15 - 18:00 Uhr, HS 3
Di, 25.04.2023, 14:15 - 18:00 Uhr, HS 3
Di, 02.05.2023, 14:15 - 18:00 Uhr, HS 3
Di, 09.05.2023, 14:15 - 18:00 Uhr, HS 3
Di, 16.05.2023, 14:15 - 18:00 Uhr, Externer Standort, PH 2. OG: Raum 2.A05
Di, 23.05.2023, 14:15 - 18:00 Uhr, HS 3
Di, 30.05.2023, 14:15 - 18:00 Uhr, HS 3
Do, 22.06.2023, 14:00 - 15:30 Uhr, HS 9 (Prüfung) |
| Umfang |
4 Semesterwochenstunden |
| Inhalt |
This course focuses on health systems and policy developments in a comparative perspective. Health care provision is one of the major functions of the welfare state. This course therefore takes an integrated approach, comparing health policy with other social policy areas. After a general introduction on the scope of health policy and different typologies on health systems and welfare states, the course is structured in three parts. Part I explores the determinants of health and social policy, focusing among others on the role of voter preferences, institutions, and the policy process. Part II explores the consequences of health and social policies on health outcomes and health inequalities. Finally, part III explores the politics of health care reform, with a particular focus on policy feedback effects, partisan polarization, and recent developments during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| Lernziele |
Students will be able to:
• understand, interpret, and review the major concepts, theoretical approaches and contemporary issues in health and social policy development in OECD countries
• analyse and compare the field of health policy with other social policy areas (for example, unemployment insurance or pensions)
• apply these approaches by analysing empirical data and by planning and implementing their own research project in health and social policy |
| Voraussetzungen |
Active participation, individual contribution, group presentation, and successful examination |
| Sprache |
Englisch |
| Anmeldung |
https://elearning.hsm-unilu.ch/course/view.php?id=603
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| Prüfung |
• Individual contribution: additional literature input/summary (20% of final grade)
• Group contribution: presentation of a policy case study (20% of final grade)
• Individual written examination (60% of final grade)
If the grade point average is not clear, it will be rounded up or down based on participation in the course in general. |
| Abschlussform / Credits |
Active participation, individual contribution, group presentation, and successful examination / 6 Credits
|
| Hinweise |
Teaching methods:
Individual reading, lectures, guest lectures, presentations of students (policy case studies, exercises and summaries), interactive exercises. |
| Hörer-/innen |
Ja |
| Kontakt |
david.weisstanner@unilu.ch |
| Material |
All teaching material is provided via the e-learning platform moodle or is available on internet. |
| Literatur |
Overview literature (indicative):
• Freeman, Richard, and Heinz Rothgang. 2010. ‘Health’. In The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State, eds. Francis G. Castles et al. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 367–77.
• Immergut, Ellen M. 2021. ‘Health Politics Today’. In Health Politics in Europe: A Handbook, eds. Ellen M. Immergut, Karen M. Anderson, Camilla Devitt, and Tamara Popic. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 3–31.
• Wendt, Claus. 2022. ‘Comparative Research on Health and Health Care’. In Social Policy in Changing European Societies, eds. Kenneth Nelson, Rense Nieuwenhuis, and Mara Yerkes. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 50–65. |