Financing Public Health Care
- Summarise the region of the world you selected. Include some brief public health information about the region, including the average length of life and the main diseases from which people die. Describe how the health care system/s are organised.
- Evaluate methods for financing health systems in your selected region. Your evaluation should be based on factors such as the amount of financing, its reliability and how its use is governed and overseen.
- Describe leadership challenges that you might face arising from funding issues.
- You should fully state and justify any choices or assumptions that you make using the suggested readings for this unit as well as your own research. Include references to any sources you have used. All sources should be cited using Harvard Referencing Style.
Goodwin, N., G. Reinhold, & V. Iles, (2006) Managing Health Services, Understanding Public Health Series, Maidenhead: Open University Press, Section 2
Merson, M. H., R. E. Black, & A. J. Mills, (2012) Global Health: Diseases, Programs, Systems, and Policies, Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning