Unit Code: HSM813

Unit Name: Managing Health Systems and Population Health

Description: This course is designed to provide students with an overview of the main elements of a health system. The course will present the main approaches to how health systems can be viewed and analysed. The course will then go into the WHO buildings blocks of health systems given its wide adoption across many Pacific Health systems. These building blocks include Governance and Leadership, Health Workforce, Health Services Delivery, Health financing, and Medical products and technology. The building blocks will conclude with the performance measures relating to health systems goals and objectives. At the end of the course students will also look at how health systems relate to Population health goals of improving the health of the community. This will involve learning about the social determinants of health, the socio-economic environment, and the control of threats to the health of the community.

Learning Target Outcomes: On successful completion of this course, the students will be able to: 1. Explain the foundation of Health Systems and the different approaches of analyzing health systems, and its Goals and Functions. 2. Analyse the governance and health workforce functions of a health systems. 3. Analyse the governance and health workforce functions of a health systems. 4. Analyse the health Information and essential health resources functions of a health systems. 5. Examine health reforms and the role of different actors associated with health systems. 6. Design a health systems that are committed to improving Population Health 7. Explain how community health data can be used for Surveillance and Control. 8. Explain the challenges for national health systems in a globalizing world.

Prerequisite: Minimum Entry Requirement.

Prerequisite Sentence: N/A

Credit Point: 20

Offered In: Semester 1