Barcelona Graduate School of Economics: Health and Ethics
This course is part of the Master in Health Economics and Policy of the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. It is designed and taught jointly by Raquel Gallego and Marc Le Menestrel.
OVERVIEW:
This course in an introduction to ethics in Health Management. It combines a societal perspective analyzing issues of values in health systems, health actors, health policies, health values and power with a behavioral perspective analyzing issues of rational decision-making, marketing, business influence and development.
EXERCISES AND REQUIRED ACTIVITIES
Students must prepare each session according to the requests posted on this website. They consist in 9 individual essays (one for each session) and one final group project (groups of 3 or 4 students) to be presented in class during the last session.
Essays must be submitted to professors by email at least 24 hours before the session. In this manner, they can be handed back commented to the students during the session.
EVALUATION SYSTEM
Students receive a grade for each session, which overall constitute their final grade. If a student cannot attend a session, he/she must send a summary of her understanding of the slides in addition to the required essay.
Each essay accounts for 8% of the final grade.
A class participation grade accounts for 10% of the final grade.
The final project accounts for 18% of the final grade.
There is no final exam.
Contact
Raquel Gallego, PhD (Political Science), London School of Economics
Associate Professor of Political Science, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Email: raquel.gallego at uab.cat
Office and Office Hours: 1 hour after each session
Marc Le Menestrel
Office: UPF - 20.1E34
Office Hours: 1 hour after each session
This section's pages
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Why the ethics debate? Managerialism in health systems. April 13, 9:00-11:00
Health care systems reforms since the 80s. Managerialism and value change in the public sector. Essay (max 600 words): What are the (...)
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Actors in health care systems. April 26, 16:00-18:00
Actors and agency relations in health systems. Health professions, organizations and power. Essay: What are the main factors that (...)
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The politics of health care networks. April 27, 9:00-11:00
Multilevel governance of health care: issues and evidence. Strategy building: The case of the “Catalan health care model”. Essay: (...)
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Policy making: Problem definition and power. May 4, 9:00-11:00
What is a problem? What sort of ideas become problems? What is power? Who is powerful? Essay: What is a problem from a policy (...)
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Agenda setting and policy decision making. May 10, 15:00-17:00
Where does policy come from? Which and whose interests influence policymaking? Essay: Use an example to analyse how an issue is (...)
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From Economic Rationality to Ethical Rationality. May 11, 9:00-11:00
This session introduces a framework to analyze the rationality of actors’ behavior. Recalling the standard economic approach to (...)
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Ethics in Pharmaceutical Sales. May 25, 9:00-11:00
This session explores the ethical dimension of selling pharmaceutical products. With the case of Blue Monday, we discuss the complex (...)
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The Nature of Scientific Evidence: Freedom and Precaution. June 1, 9:00-11:00
This session explores ethical issues around the collection, analyze and use of scientific evidence in Health Management. Questions (...)
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Global Health Institutions and Business Influence. June 8, 9:00-11:00
This session analyzes why and how business actors may influence global health institutions and discusses to whom this may bring costs (...)
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Alternative Ethical strategies for Global Health in Developing Countries. June 15, 9:00-11:00
This session explores business strategies to improve health in developing countries using cheaper and more easily administrable (...)
Students Projects: Ethics and Health
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