Module GW5200-KP05

Duration

1 Semester

Turnus of offer

each winter semester

Credit points

5

Course of studies, specific fields and terms:

• Master in Health and Healthcare Science 2019, compulsory, Theories and methods of health care
• Master in Health and Healthcare Science 2025, compulsory, Theories and methods of health care

Classes and lectures:

• Health Systems and Health Economics (exercise, 1 SWS)
• Evidence-based Healthcare (seminar, 1 SWS)
• Health Systems and Health Economics (lecture, 1 SWS)

Workload:

• 105 hours private studies and exercises
• 45 hours in-classroom work

Contents of teaching:

• Health Economics - basic economic terms - aims, methods and basic questions of health economics - cost-benefit calculations - Quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) - Control mechanisms in health care (e.g. co-payments, bonus booklet, disease management programs), - Quality assurance in health care, including measurement of service quality (definition of quality, goals, legal framework, quality control, problems) - Financing and reimbursement schemes in health care in general and in hospitals (incl. statutory and private health insurance) - Institutions of the health care system
• Healthcare systems - Structures and forms of care in the health care system - Organization of health care systems - The health care system as part of the social security system in Germany - Health care systems in international comparison
• Health policy - Aims of health policy - Actors, interest groups and lobbying - The health policy action cycle Current case studies in health policy (e.g. digitalization, rural doctor quota, organ donor card, health premium, model projects, tele-medicine...)
• Evidence-based health care - Terms and methods in the context of

Qualification-goals/Competencies:

• The goal of the course is to develop an understanding of the fundamentals of health economics, the various structures of health care systems, and health policy processes. The knowledge learned will then be combined and applied to current case studies to solidify what has been learned and gain deeper insight into the decision-making processes and interrelationships in health care.
• Knowledge and Understanding Knowledge Enhancement: Students will be able to define the term
• Knowledge and understanding Knowledge enhancement: students will be able to define the term
• Knowledge and understanding Knowledge enhancement: students will be able to explain the evidence bases and specific methods for the different HTA dimensions, especially for health economic evaluation, and apply them appropriately to evaluation examples.
• Use, application and generation of knowledge/utilization and transfer: students will be able to read HTA reports, including health economic evaluation, with understanding and reflect critically on the validity of conclusions related to safety, benefits, health economic consequences and ethical, legal and social implications.
• Communication and cooperation: students will be able to present the results of a critical HTA assessment orally and in writing in a factual and professional manner and, on this basis, represent their own position in a simulated decision on the refinancing of the assessed procedure.
• Scientific self-image and professionalism: They reflect on the dependence of the results of an HTA, especially the health economic and ethical evaluation, on underlying perspectives and value judgments. They are sensitized to the necessity of systematically involving the addressees (users) of a health care procedure in the HTA process and the decisions based on it.

Grading through:

• presentation
• written exam

Responsible for this module:

• Prof. Dr. phil. Dipl.-Soz. Katja Götz

Teacher:

• Institute of Family Medicine
• Institute for Social Medicine and Epidemiology
• Prof. Dr. phil. Dipl.-Soz. Katja Götz
• Prof. Dr. Katrin Balzer
• Dr. Christoph Strumann

Literature:

• Fleßa S & Greiner W (2020) : Grundlagen der Gesundheitsökonomie. Eine Einführung in das wirtschaftliche Denken im Gesundheitswesen 4., überarb. u. akt. Aufl. Heidelberg: Springer Gabler
• Perleth M, Zentner A, Busse R et al. (2014) : Health Technology Assessment. Konzepte, Methoden, Praxis für Wissenschaft und Entscheidungsfindung. 2. Aufl. Berlin: MWV Medizinisch Wissenschaft

Language:

• German and English skills required

Notes:

Last Updated:

16.09.2025