Healthcare Financing and National Policy Evaluation

This week’s topics

Healthcare Financing and National Policy Evaluation

1. Taxation versus social health insurance models
2. Public sector resource allocation
3. Commissioning and decentralisation
4. Critical evaluation of home country health policies
5. Lecture 32- Tax and Social Health Insurance Mechanism I
6. Lecture 21- Health Care Financing

What you will be able to do

• 1.3 Assess how policy formation is influenced by funding in a national context.
• 1.4 Critically evaluate health and social care policy in own country.

Activity

Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: assess how policy formation is influenced by funding in a national context.

Study materials

Videos

• Lecture 32- Tax and Social Health Insurance Mechanism I · YouTube · IIT Roorkee July 2018 · 41 min · for registered students
• Lecture 21- Health Care Financing · YouTube · IIT Roorkee July 2018 · 34 min · for registered students
• Financing Social Care | LSE Festval Online and In-Person Event · YouTube · LSE · 76 min · for registered students
• Evaluating Integrated Care | LSE Department of Health Policy · YouTube · LSE · 5 min · for registered students
• The government Spending Review: Implications for NHS public health & social care funding (subtitled) · YouTube · The Health Foundation · 59 min · for registered students
• Ian Duncan: Applications of risk adjustment in health care · YouTube · Nuffield Trust · 9 min · for registered students

Further resources

• Belgium: health system review 2020 (European Observatory, Health Systems in Transition) · Reading · Other, report · for registered students
• Health and social care integration: joining up care for people, places and populations (2022) · Reading · GOV.UK, report · for registered students
• People at the heart of care: adult social care reform white paper (DHSC, 2021) · Reading · GOV.UK, report · for registered students