486259-HS2026-0-PHS: How to Organize and Finance Health Systems





Root number 486259
Semester HS2026
Type of course Course
Allocation to subject Public Health Sciences Course Program
Type of exam not defined
Title PHS: How to Organize and Finance Health Systems
Description 08.10. and 15.10.2026

In this course, participants have learned how health system organizes the “market” of health care providers and how the payment of health care is divided among the government, insurance companies, and private out-of-pocket payments, as well as the foundations of decision making from the perspective of economic theory.

Registration and deregistration regulation: Registration for PHS courses is open until approximately two weeks before the course begins. Participants may deregister without incurring an administrative fee up to one month before the course starts. After the deregistration period, the organisers will decide whether the course will take place. Registrations after the deregistration deadline are binding, and any deregistration after this deadline will incur an administrative fee of CHF 100. More information is available on the website: https://www.medizin.unibe.ch/studies/study_programs/phs_course_program/index_eng.html#pane1296400
ILIAS-Link (Learning resource for course) Registrations are transmitted from CTS to ILIAS (no admission in ILIAS possible). ILIAS
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Lecturers Prof. em. Dr. Marcel ZwahlenInstitute of Social and Preventive Medicine 
Prof. Dr. Michael GerfinDepartment of Economics 
ECTS 1
Recognition as optional course possible No
Grading passed/failed
 
Dates Thursday 8/10/2026 09:15-11:00
Thursday 8/10/2026 11:15-12:00
Thursday 8/10/2026 13:30-16:30
Thursday 15/10/2026 09:15-12:00
Thursday 15/10/2026 13:00-16:30
 
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