Health Systems (POPH90209)

This subject will provide students with the analytical frameworks for exploring the social dynamics, institutions and structures that constitute health systems, and enhance students’ ability to undertake critical policy analysis of health systems. Issues that will be addressed will include, but may not be exclusive to: health system structures, factors influencing health systems, intergovernmental relations in health, health financing systems, health workforce supply and policy, general practice and primary healthcare, complementary health systems, international health systems and indigenous peoples, major health system reforms, evidence, tools, performance measurement, and policy processes that inform health system decision-making. The Australian health system will be the primary case study with most topics including comparative case studies from other health systems.