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Public Sector I.

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 153-0390/01
Abbreviation VS I
Course title Public Sector I.
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Public Economics
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Iveta Vrabková, Ph.D.

Osnova předmětu

1. Introduction to economics of selected the public sector segments. The healthcare as part of the national economy. Types and forms of health care. Health services. Approaches to the perception of the right to health. The Role of the State in Health Policy.
2. Characteristics of the market and goods in healthcare. Reasons for State Interventions in Health Care. Sources and methods of financing the health service. Payment Order for a given year. DRG system.
3. Institutional health care provision. The reform of the health care sector since 1989. Current problems of the health sector.
4. Economic evaluation of the benefits of health services. Equality, affordability and efficiency of healthcare. Basic methods of economic analysis. Characteristics of multi-criteria methods applied to health care.
5. Purpose, function, principles and effects of social security. The structure of risks, the nature of social events and the purpose of social protection. Promoting living standards, reducing inequalities, social integration.
6. Age, disability, and death programs. Construction of old-age pensions, disability pensions and survivors pensions in the Czech Republic. Dynamics of pensions.
7. Disease security programs. Design of security programs in the Czech Republic. Construction of benefits in the Czech Republic.
8. Security programs in the state of material need. A program to help people with disabilities and a program to help people dependent on the care of another person in the Czech Republic. Resources and tools for financing social services.
9. Family and children security programs. Construction of state social support benefits. Unemployment insurance programs. Employee protection against employer's insolvency.
10. The social and economic context of education. Functions and effects of education. Factors affecting education expenditure. Educational system in the Czech Republic. Financial and human investment in education. Comparison of the Czech Republic with the EU and OECD countries.
11. Administration, founders and legal form of schools in the "regional education" of the Czech Republic. Economic nature, structure and sources of expenditures, influence of supply and demand factors on public and private expenditure, and public subsidies to households in education.
12. Principles of financing non-investment and investment expenditures in "regional education" in the Czech Republic. Main and secondary activities of organizations working in education. Normative and program funding, normative design according to the type of the founder of schools and school facilities.
13. Administration, management, structure, legal forms and funding of higher education in the Czech Republic. Public, state, private and foreign higher education institutions in the Czech Republic.
14. The Economics of Higher Education Institutions in the Czech Republic. Revenues and expenditures, costs and revenues, budget structure and state subsidy to higher education in the Czech Republic. Assets, resources, funds, remuneration and education payments.

E-learning

Povinná literatura

BRADLEY, Steve, GREEN, Colin. The Economics of Education: A Comprehensive Overview. Academic Press, 2020. ISBN-13-978-01-2815-391-8.
Lovenheim, Michael, Turner, Sarah E. Economics of Education, Worth Publishers, 2017. ISBN-13-978-07-1677-704-5.
MARTIN, Robert. Health Economics: Concepts, Tools and Applications. HAYLE MEDICAL, 2020 ISBN: 16-324-1849-5 .
STIGLITZ, Joseph E. and Jay K. ROSENGARD. Economics of the Public Sector. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2015. 923 s. ISBN 978-0-393-92522-7.

Doporučená literatura

BREWER, Dominic J. and Patrick J. McEWAN (eds.). Economic of Education. Elsevier, 2010. 383 s. ISBN 978-0-08-096530-7 .
VRABKOVÁ, Iveta a Ivana VAŇKOVÁ. Evaluation models of efficiency and quality of bed care in hospitals. Ostrava: VŠB-TU Ostrava.2015.ISBN 978-80-248-3755-0.