Since 1992, the health systems of the countries of the former Soviet Union and the former Eastern bloc undergone a rapid and widespread transformation. This course sets out to address key aspects of the health systems in central and eastern Europe, including:

• Funding and financing (e.g. health insurance models, user fees, public/private divide, allocative efficiency);
• Health policy (e.g. the role of WHO and other key actors involved in health sector reforms);
• The primary/secondary care division (e.g. the role of family doctors and hospitals, regulation);
• Public health (e.g. responses to and the epidemiology of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, TB and sexually transmitted infections);
• Community involvement (the role of non-governmental actors such as civil society and professional organisations).

During the course students will learn to use the European Health for all database and critically analyse health systems and public health data from the region.

Case studies, group work, debates, films and discussions, in addition to lectures and course readings will be employed. A range of experts on the aformentioned topics, from WHO and elsewhere, will lecture as appropriate. Challenges to health systems in the region and research priorities will be reviewed.

Main teachers

• jeffrey V. Lazarus (Dinamarca )

Workload and ECTS

Class workload	Total workload	ECTS
30	275	10