Two New Courses Receive SGS Approval
The following two courses have recently received approval by the School of Graduate Studies.
HAD5774H - Comparative Health Systems
Instructor: D. Zakus
Each country in the world possesses and implements a unique health service delivery system. While there may be many factors, components and issues in common, there are nonetheless many differences. In the development and betterment of the Canadian/Provincial health systems it is important to learn about and analyze other country's systems to learn how they treat similar issues and to discover innovations for ours.
This course will examine various health system components, processes and outcomes from the viewpoint that we Canadians still have much to learn about how to best deliver health services. Improvement only comes through change and innovations and we need to know and understand what other jurisdictions are doing, especially those which are of a similar socio-economic status and which have similar needs to meet.
To this end, this course will focus on studying the health systems of the OECD countries, but will not neglect the opportunity to learn from others, especially those middle and low income countries implementing interesting and innovative reforms.
Particular issues like equity/inequity at local, national and international levels, and the current and looming effects of globalization will also be put into context with respect to the continual development of health service delivery mechanisms in Canada.
HAD5775H - Competition, Cooperation and Strategy in Healthcare
Instructors: W. Berta/A. Brown
Current changes in Canadian health care, including growth in privately financed and delivered care, hospital restructuring, and new sources of capital financing for hospitals have renewed interest in strategic planning techniques more common in US healthcare institutions. A number of strategic planning tools such as balanced scorecards and integration are used in Canada, but there is little understanding of the competition and cooperation that stimulated their uptake in other countries and how these concepts affect institutions within the Canadian health care system.
This course builds on an earlier course in strategy in health care to show how these tools can be used to understand and respond to competition in health care; even in Canada. Students taking this course explore a number of issues around the application of strategy and performance measurement frameworks to cases from the for-profit, not-for-profit, and non-profit sectors in health care. This is a survey course that touches on a number of issues and examples in private sector management in health care.
The course has two objectives: To introduce a toolbox of methods and perspectives useful for understanding issues in strategy and the private sector in health care and to provide examples of interesting cases in the Canadian and US healthcare system that reflect possibilities in the evolution of the healthcare system. By the end of the course, students should be familiar with a number of emerging issues around the public-private split in the Canadian health care system and be capable of applying industry and company strategic analysis and performance measurement techniques to address common health policy topics such as the horizontal and vertical integration of services and public-private partnerships.
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