Population Health: Governance
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What you'll learn
You will be able to participate in public discussion about health care governance systems.
Understand the importance of organizations in healthcare governance, and their key characteristics.
Understand the environment in which healthcare organisations operate.
Recognise the changing roles of healthcare professionals because of technological innovations.
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There are 5 modules in this course
How can we organise care in such a way that we optimize experience, quality and costs? What type of governance is needed? And how should healthcare organisations collaborate?
These are central questions in this course. In answering them, we depart from a recognition of the impact of three crucial global shifts in health care governance: 1) the change in focus from cure to population health, 2) the increased attention to social determinants of health, and 3) the stronger involvement of non-governmental healthcare organisations in service delivery networks. The course is unique in combining the Population Health perspective with theories of healthcare system governance. It takes a ‘multi-level’ perspective: the participant will look at healthcare governance from different angles in the healthcare system as a whole: from the global and national level, to networks of organisations, to individual care organisations, and finally to the healthcare professional. All these actors should function well to optimize accessible, affordable and high quality of care. To attain these goals, specific managerial network and leadership skills are required.
Welcome to the course Population Health: Governance! In this module you will get to know what the scope of this course is and you will learn how to be successful at online studying.
What's included
2 videos3 readings1 discussion prompt1 plugin
2 videos•Total 6 minutes
- Welcome to Population Health: Governance•4 minutes
- How to succeed in your online class?•2 minutes
3 readings•Total 30 minutes
- Meet the instructors & the team•10 minutes
- About this course•10 minutes
- Glossary•10 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 20 minutes
- Introduce yourself•20 minutes
1 plugin•Total 2 minutes
- Discover The World at Leiden University [video]•2 minutes
We will start this course by taking a bird’s eye view on healthcare: the perspective of the healthcare system as a whole. You will learn about the different systems that exist in the world, how these systems are shifting, and how well your own country performs compared to other countries in the world.
What's included
5 videos1 reading2 assignments2 discussion prompts
5 videos•Total 30 minutes
- Introduction•2 minutes
- The Shift in healthcare governance: challenges in population-based care provision•7 minutes
- Healthcare governance systems around the world: a WHO perspective•8 minutes
- The Shift in healthcare policy making: from government to governance•5 minutes
- The triangle: quality, equity, efficiency•9 minutes
1 reading•Total 10 minutes
- Readings & Resources•10 minutes
2 assignments•Total 40 minutes
- Reflect on learning goals•10 minutes
- Test your knowledge•30 minutes
2 discussion prompts•Total 50 minutes
- How is health organised in your country?•30 minutes
- Explore performance of the health system in your country.•20 minutes
In this module we will descend from a system-level view to individual organisations: how are healthcare organisations managed, and in particular, how can we evaluate their performance? You will learn to answer these questions with the help of governance and organisational theories.
What's included
5 videos1 reading1 discussion prompt
5 videos•Total 30 minutes
- Introduction•2 minutes
- Performance measurement as a governance tool•8 minutes
- Managing for performance•10 minutes
- A theoretical lens on organisations•8 minutes
- To conclude•2 minutes
1 reading•Total 10 minutes
- Readings & Resources•10 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 30 minutes
- Performance measurement in a real life context. What do you think?•30 minutes
We have seen the system perspective and the individual perspective on healthcare governance. In this module, we turn our focus to whole networks, or the sum of all the collaborations between healthcare and other collaborations that jointly aim to improve health services. You will learn how to analyse and manage these networks using stakeholder and social network analysis skills.
What's included
7 videos1 reading5 assignments2 discussion prompts
7 videos•Total 37 minutes
- Introduction•2 minutes
- Stakeholders and networks in healthcare organisations•6 minutes
- Inter-organisational networks in healthcare governance•6 minutes
- Managerial networking and stakeholder analysis•9 minutes
- Social Network Analysis: the basics•7 minutes
- Social Network Analysis: key measures•7 minutes
- To conclude•1 minute
1 reading•Total 10 minutes
- Readings & Resources•10 minutes
5 assignments•Total 118 minutes
- Alliances in healthcare organisations•30 minutes
- Inter-organisational networks in healthcare governance•30 minutes
- Social Network Analysis: the basics•18 minutes
- Reflect on learning goals•10 minutes
- Test your knowledge•30 minutes
2 discussion prompts•Total 20 minutes
- Alliances in healthcare organisations: a good idea?•10 minutes
- What would you do if you where the manager?•10 minutes
In this final module, we will take the perspective of the healthcare professional. What characterizes their work, and how do they cope with the often stressful tasks they have to perform? And how is their work changing? You will learn what makes the work of healthcare professionals challenging, and how they strategically cope with these challenges.
What's included
6 videos1 reading6 assignments2 discussion prompts
6 videos•Total 47 minutes
- Introduction•1 minute
- Street-level bureaucracy - complex working conditions•9 minutes
- Street-level bureaucracy - coping strategies•6 minutes
- Healthcare and street-level bureaucracy interview with Jet Bussemaker•23 minutes
- Technology in healthcare: changes for professionals•7 minutes
- To conclude•1 minute
1 reading•Total 10 minutes
- Readings & Resources•10 minutes
6 assignments•Total 220 minutes
- E-health and street level bureaucrats•20 minutes
- Reflect on learning goals•10 minutes
- Test your knowledge•30 minutes
- Test your knowledge•30 minutes
- Reflect on learning goals•10 minutes
- Final Assessment•120 minutes
2 discussion prompts•Total 20 minutes
- What about e-health?•10 minutes
- Share your glossary•10 minutes
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