Syllabus/achievement requirements

Employees and students at UiO have access to all e-journals that UiO subscribe to(4500 titles). The access is limited to PCs with an IP-number belonging to UiO.

In the reading list articles available on the web are marked "Subscription". These articles are also available in classfronter. Articles available in compendiums are marked "Compendium".

We are trying to find a solution for the readings that are not electronical or in the compendium, and we will come back with more information on these as soon as possible.

Mandatory reading for the lectures

Boerma, Wienke G.W. and Carl-Ardy Dubois: "Mapping primary care across Europe" in Saltman R, A Rico and W Boerma: Primary care in the driver seat? Organizational re-structuring in European primary care, 2005. Buckingham: Open University Press. Compendium.

Busse, Reinhard: "Disease Management Programs In Germany’s Statutory Health Insurance System" in Heath Affairs: 2004. Vol 23, 3. Page 56-67.. Available online (subscription).

Kahan, Barbara and Michael Goodstadt: "Continuous quality improvement and health promotion: can CQI lead to better outcomes?" in Health Promotion International, 1999. Oxford University Press. Vol. 14, No. 1, 83-91. Available online.

Kelly, Diane L: Applying Quality Management in Healthcare: A Process for Improvement, 2003. Health Administration Press. Section 1, chapter 1: Concepts of quality management. Available in classfronter .

Laske-Aldershof, Trea; Erik Schut, Konstantin Beck, Stefan Greβ, Amir Shmueli and Carine Van de Voorde: "Consumer Mobility in Social Health. A five country comparison" in Applied health economics and health policy : 2004 Vol 3, number 4. Available online (subscription).

Mintzberg, Henry: "Managing Government, governing Management" in Harvard Business Review: 1996. Compendium.

Orlikoff, James E and E. George Middleton, Jr.: Frontiers:Old Board/New Board: Governance in an Era of Accountability, 2005. Health Adminstration Press. Available in classfronter (with comments from other authors).

Paolucci, Francesco, Andre Den Exter and Wynard P. M. M. van de Ven: "Solidarity in competitive health insurance markets: analyzing the relevant EC legal framework" in Journal of Health Economics Policy and Law: 2006 (Forthcoming). Available online (subscription).

Pierre, Jon and B. Guy Peters: Governance, politics and the state , 2000. Macmillan. Chapters 6 and 9. Compendium.

Pointer, Dennis D and James E Orlikoff: Getting to great:Principles of Health Care Organization Governance, 2002. Jossey-Bass. ISBN:?ISBN: 0-7879-6121-3. Pages 9-31. Available in classfronter.

Rico Ana and Joan Costa-Font: "Power Rather Than Path Dependency? The Dynamics of Institutional Change under Health Care Federalism" in Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law: 2005. Availavle online.

Rico, Ana and Sandra León: "Health care devolution in Europe: Trends and prospects" in HORN working paper, 2005:1: 2005. University of Oslo. Available online.

Ringard, ?nen, Ana Rico and Terje Hagen: "Extended patient choice in Norway and the UK. Will it succeed?" in Working paper presented at the Annual Conference of the European Health Management Association, Barcelona, June 2004, Availalbe in classfronter.

Rodden, Jonathan: "Comparative Federalism and Decentralization: On Meaning and Measurement" in Journal of Comparative Politics: 2004. Compendium.

Schrey?gg, Jonas and Reinhard Busse: "Disease management in Germany" in EuroObserver: 2005. Page 3-4. Available online.

Schrey?gg, Jonas, Oliver Tiemann and Reinhard Busse: "The DRG Reimbursement System in Germany" in EuroObserver: 2005. Page 4-6. Available online.

Tai-Seale, Ming: "Voting with their feet: Patient exit and intergroup differences in propensity for switching usual source of care" in Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law: 2004. Available online (subscription).

van de Ven, Wynand P.M.M., Rene? C.J.A. van Vliet, Frederik T. Schut and Erik M. van Barneveld: "Access to coverage for high-risks in a competitive individual health insurance market: via premium rate restrictions or risk-adjusted premium subsidies?" in Journal of Health Economics: 2000. Vol. 19. Available online (subscription).

Mandatory reading for the seminars

Busse, Reinhard, Jonas Schrey?gg and Klaus Dirk Henke: "Regulation of pharmaceutical markets in Germany: improving efficiency and controlling expenditures? " in International Jorunal of Health Planning and Management: 2005. Vol 20 (329-349) Available in classfronter.

New Health Insurance System, The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, The Netherlands. Available online.

Paris, Valérie: "Pharmaceutical regulation in France 1980–2003" in International Jorunal of Health Planning and Management: 2005. Vol 20 (307-328). Available in classfronter.

PPN in India: Final report on RCH., Available online.

Rico, Ana, Richard B. Saltman and Wienke G. W. Boerma: "Organizational re-structuring in European health care" in Social Policy and Administration: 2003. Available online (subscription).

van de Ven, Wynand P.M.M., Konstantin Beck, Florian Buchner, Dov Chernichovsky, Lucien Gardiol, Alberto Holly, Leida M. Lamers, Erik Schokkaert, Amir Shmueli, Stephan Spycher, Carine Van de Voorde, Rene? C.J.A. van Vliet, Jürgen Wasem and Irith Zmora: "Risk adjustment and risk selection on the sickness fund insurance market in five European countries’" in Health Policy: 2003. Vol 65 (75-98). Available online (subscription).

Elective/further readings

Mossialos E, Thomson SMS: "Voluntary health insurance in the European Union" in Mossialos et al.: Funding health care: options for Europe. , 2002. Buckingham: Open University Press. p 128-160.

*Vrangb?k, Karsten and Katarina ?stergren: "The introduction of choice in Scandinavian hospital systems" in Working paper 2004- 5, Bergen: 2004. Stein Rokkan Centre of Social Studies. Available online.

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