SU511: Social pharmacy (5 ECTS)

STADS: 29001911

Level
Bachelor course

Teaching period
The course is offered in the autumn semester.
1st quarter.

Teacher responsible
Email: cka@sam.sdu.dk

Additional teachers
ukk@sam.sdu.dk

Timetable
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Prerequisites:
None

Academic preconditions:
None.

Course introduction
The purposes of this course is to introduce students to the pharmaceutical market and the actors in that market. The idea is that students acquire knowledge in the key characteristics of the pharmaceutical market and the health care system.

Expected learning outcome

• Students should be able to define the concept of a pharmaceutical
• Knowledge about consumption statistics and pharmaceutical prices
• Describe key characteristics of the pharmaceutical market and the market for health care
• Describe the development in the consumption of pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical expenditures
• Describe key actors in the Danish health care system and in relation to the pharmaceutical market
• Discuss the rationale for regulation of the pharmaceutical market
• Discuss consequences of regulation, e.g. subsidies and patents
• Describe conditions that affect demand and supply for pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical prices.

Subject overview
• Introduction to the pharmaceutical market and its regulation
• Introduction to statistics of consumption of pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical prices
• The Danish health care system
• Health care systems: concepts and definitions
• Actors in the pharmaceutical market
• Regulation of health care organisations
• Special characteristics of the pharmaceutical market and the market for health care services
• Supply and demand
• Efficiency and distribution
• Market failures
• Financing, social and private insurance
• User charges
• Distribution of pharmaceuticals
• Market structure: monopolies, oligopolies, monopolistic competition
• Parallel import
• Pharmaceutical prices
• Consumption and pharmaceutical expenditures
• Research and development
• Patents

Literature

• Signild Vallgårda & Allan Krasnik: Sundhedsvæsen og sundhedspolitik, Munksgaard Danmark (nyeste udgave).
• David Wonderling, Reinhold Gruen & Nick Black, Introduction : to health economics, Open University Press (nyeste udgave, hvis muligt).

Syllabus
See syllabus.

Website
This course uses e-learn (blackboard).

Prerequisites for participating in the exam
None

Assessment and marking:
Written exam. Pass or fail. Internal evaluation by teacher (weight 5 ECTS).

Expected working hours
The teaching method is based on three phase model.


45 lektioner á 45 minutter. 
Der vil blive lagt vægt på aktiv studenterdeltagelse, fx løsning af opgaver og gruppearbejde.
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Language
This course is taught in Danish.

Course enrollment
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Tuition fees for single courses
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