2024
Health Contracting and Financing Models
Name: Health Contracting and Financing Models
Code: ENF13721D
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Management
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Presentation
This UC allows the study of Health Financing and Contracting Models, establishing the key components of the discipline and places particular emphasis on the relationship between financing, distributing and managing health resources and services.
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
At the end of the course, students should be able to:
• Understand the main funding and payment models for health;
• Learn to set priorities in national, regional or organizational towards better use of resources;
• Distinguish various forms of contracting in health;
• Understand the contracting process in its various aspects and dimensions;
• Obtain a set of analytical skills, in order to establish the relationship between the health needs identified and the response options of organizations providing health care;
• Understand the internal hospital contracting under the external environment and in the subsystems of the organization.
• Understand the main funding and payment models for health;
• Learn to set priorities in national, regional or organizational towards better use of resources;
• Distinguish various forms of contracting in health;
• Understand the contracting process in its various aspects and dimensions;
• Obtain a set of analytical skills, in order to establish the relationship between the health needs identified and the response options of organizations providing health care;
• Understand the internal hospital contracting under the external environment and in the subsystems of the organization.
Contents
1. Financing and Contracting in Health: strategic thinking, historical and conceptual framing.
2. Principles, elements and facilitators of health contracting.
3. Contracting in the perspective of integration of care.
4. Contracting and Health Value.
5. The modeling effect of funding models in organizations.
6. Hospital internal contracting: facilitators and barriers.
7. The construction of a plan of action: indicators, objectives and goals.
8. Negotiation techniques for the viability of trading processes in the field.
2. Principles, elements and facilitators of health contracting.
3. Contracting in the perspective of integration of care.
4. Contracting and Health Value.
5. The modeling effect of funding models in organizations.
6. Hospital internal contracting: facilitators and barriers.
7. The construction of a plan of action: indicators, objectives and goals.
8. Negotiation techniques for the viability of trading processes in the field.
Teaching Methods
• Theoretical sessions;
• Seminars (critical analysis and discussion of case studies);
• Group work presentation and discussion.
Evaluation:
a) Individual work (40%).
b) Development of a contracting proposal, up to 5 pages after research, analysis, interpretation and discussion of selected literature - group work (50%).
c) Attendance and participation under continuous assessment (10%).
• Seminars (critical analysis and discussion of case studies);
• Group work presentation and discussion.
Evaluation:
a) Individual work (40%).
b) Development of a contracting proposal, up to 5 pages after research, analysis, interpretation and discussion of selected literature - group work (50%).
c) Attendance and participation under continuous assessment (10%).
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