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Population Health: Governance

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Population Health: Governance

Instructors: Jelmer Schalk

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5 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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Beginner level

No prior experience required

1 week to complete

at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

5 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

27 reviews

Beginner level

No prior experience required

1 week to complete

at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

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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Assessments

13 assignments

Taught in English

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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.

Module details

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 videosTotal 6 minutes

Welcome to Population Health: Governance4 minutes
How to succeed in your online class?2 minutes

3 readingsTotal 30 minutes

Meet the instructors & the team10 minutes
About this course10 minutes
Glossary10 minutes

1 discussion promptTotal 20 minutes

Introduce yourself20 minutes

1 pluginTotal 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 videosTotal 30 minutes

Introduction2 minutes
The Shift in healthcare governance: challenges in population-based care provision7 minutes
Healthcare governance systems around the world: a WHO perspective8 minutes
The Shift in healthcare policy making: from government to governance5 minutes
The triangle: quality, equity, efficiency9 minutes

1 readingTotal 10 minutes

Readings & Resources10 minutes

2 assignmentsTotal 40 minutes

Reflect on learning goals10 minutes
Test your knowledge30 minutes

2 discussion promptsTotal 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

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 videosTotal 37 minutes

Introduction2 minutes
Stakeholders and networks in healthcare organisations6 minutes
Inter-organisational networks in healthcare governance6 minutes
Managerial networking and stakeholder analysis9 minutes
Social Network Analysis: the basics7 minutes
Social Network Analysis: key measures7 minutes
To conclude1 minute

1 readingTotal 10 minutes

Readings & Resources10 minutes

5 assignmentsTotal 118 minutes

Alliances in healthcare organisations30 minutes
Inter-organisational networks in healthcare governance30 minutes
Social Network Analysis: the basics18 minutes
Reflect on learning goals10 minutes
Test your knowledge30 minutes

2 discussion promptsTotal 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.