The main goal of this course is to familiarize the student with current health policies and systems, their historical development and the main existing challenges. It is designed to promote a deeper understanding of health policy, to highlight the tendencies of development and to facilitate prediction of future problems in the 21th century in the context of economic globalization. The course is divided into three blocks – 1. Health care systems and their functions, 2. Key concepts in health policy, 3. International comparison of selected health care systems and policies. Every block will start with theoretical background; the topics will be discussed in a comparative perspective.

Petr Háva

Assistant Professor at the Department of Public and Social Policy, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University. Dr. Háva began his education at the Medical College at Masaryk University in Brno. After attaining the MD degree, he continued to study for his PhD in Biophysics at the Institute of Biophysics at the Czech Academy of Sciences. In 1994 he studied Health Economics at the University of York in the UK. He currently works at the Psychiatric hospital Bohnice in Prague and at the Child Helpline as a personnel psychologist. He lectures at Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, on Health Policy and Health Economics.