Reference no: EM133170295

Essay - Health Plan Design and Payments: Theory and Practice

In the first assignment students had to describe the presence of the preconditions in the country of choice broadly, as well as describing the managed competition model. In sum, writing in your own words what was written in the paper, and drawing from the course content and essential reading.

Now, building on this - students must elaborate on that and provide an evaluation of these pre-conditions which is up to date. For each precondition and for a country of the student's choice (e.g. the same one chosen last time) the student should describe:
- What is missing to fulfill them?
- What is the state of the art at the moment in the country (not as 2013 as the Van de Ven article)?
- What are the problems/positive issues that the pre-conditions (not) fulfilled are creating in the system?
- What reforms are needed to suit these systems? The student should create a feasible plan to fix the issues.
So, this assessment should be like a report that can be given to a policymaker, as the second part of the previous assessment.

Description

You are to prepare a written evaluation up to 1500 words.

Recalling the country you have described in the assessment #1, students must evaluate with appropriate language the level of fulfilment of the ten pre-conditions for achieving efficiency and affordability in competitive healthcare markets (60).

Students must propose and describe a feasible roadmap to achieve and improve the pre-conditions in the country considered (40).
Some further explanation:

In the first assignment students had to describe the presence of the preconditions in the countries broadly, as well as describing the managed competition model. In sum, re-elaborate what was written in the paper (Van de Ven, 2013), and drawing from the course content and essential reading.

Now, building on this - students must elaborate on that and provide an evaluation of these pre-conditions which is up to date. For each precondition and for a country of the student's choice (e.g. the same one chosen last time) the student should describe:
• What is missing to fulfill them?
• What is the state of the art at the moment in the country (not as 2013 as the Van de Ven article)?
• What are the problems/positive issues that the pre-conditions (not) fulfilled are creating in the system?
• What reforms are needed to suit these systems?

So, this assessment should be like a report that can be given to a policymaker, as the second part of the previous assessment.

From these, they have to create a feasible plan to fix the issues.

It would be useful to have a short introduction that summarizes the past assessment content and start the evaluation from there.

Attachment:- Health Plan Design.rar