Health Policy, Manag ...

Final exam  – essay of 500 - 1,000 words have to be written on one of the following topics:

• Task 1: The Netherlands have a unique health insurance system. Read about it and discuss it in relation to the three systems in Table 8.1.
• Task 2: Discuss the numbers of your country according to Table 1.2.
• Task 3: To what extent do you think there is a positive association between a healthy physical environment and a healthy social environment? Find examples and evidence.
• Task 4: Explore available official statistics in your country that may indicate the extent of social inequalities in health. Can you observe social inequalities in children’s health?
• Task 5: Consider an environmental health issue in your community or town, and discuss which interventions are possible to reduce its negative health impacts.
• Task 6: Discuss positive and negative health consequences of legalizing some types of illicit drugs.
• Task 7: For which types of health care do you think moral hazard is a big problem, and how would you try to solve it?
• Task 8: What is the biggest problem with ‘socialized medicine’ (tax financed): no freedom of choice, moral hazard, or other issue?
• Task 9: For which types of health care would you recommend patient payments, and for what theoretical reasons?
• Task 10: Discuss a policy that makes deductibles income dependent in order to reduce the inherent problem of inequitable health care utilization.