Public Programmes

Understanding International Healthcare Systems

Objectives

• To provide an overview of key healthcare systems and the present trends and issues

Target Audience

• Individuals needing an overview of how the international healthcare systems operate

Course Content

DAY 1:
Funding Provision

• To understand basic structure/funding of healthcare systems of eight countries
• To understand different models of healthcare funding (trends - public or private and factors causing rising healthcare expenditure)

Medicines

• Describe the key regulations governing the control of medicines in eight countries
• Compare and contrast these regulations
• Begin to understand how these controls can be used in cost containment policies

Economics of the Healthcare Delivery Process

• Understand some of the global healthcare trends which are challenging the future of healthcare provision

Key Issues for the Global Pharma Business

• Recognise key issues impacting the pharma industry and its ability to do business

Healthcare Cost Containment

• List the methods of reducing costs of medicines available
• Apply these methods to the eight countries within the sample
• Understand the concerns to the pharma industry generated by these restrictions

Impact on and Response of the Pharma Industry

• Identify the key pressures on the pharma industry
• Understand some of the critical activities a pharma company needs to undertake in order to increase success