Back to Comparative Health Systems
University of Pennsylvania

Comparative Health Systems

This course uses comparative analysis of health care systems to gain a better understanding of health care systems in several high-income, middle-income and low-income countries. One focus of analysis in this course will therefore be to develop a better knowledge of these health care systems. A second focus will be to use to this analysis to gain a better understanding of the health care system in the United States. This analysis is relevant for those who are directly interested in the United States, but it is also relevant for those students who are seeking to enhance knowledge of the health care systems in their home countries by gaining a better understanding of the United States’ health care system. A comparative analysis of health systems will help managers and health care professionals who are responsible for optimizing organizational outcomes by improving the quality of health care and simultaneously reducing the costs of health care. The course will use of a combination of the World Health Organization building blocks framework along with theories of complex systems to establish a framework to compare health systems in a number of high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries. This analysis will develop the capacity of managers to critically evaluate relationships between their organizations and the broader set of interactions between the building blocks that make up particular health care systems.

Status: Organizational Strategy
Status: Health Disparities
BeginnerCourse11 hours

Featured reviews

TW

5.0Reviewed Jul 15, 2020

Great course! Excellent learnings and overview as well as comparison to other healthcare systems around the world.

AS

5.0Reviewed Jan 22, 2025

It was very clear and well analyzed and structured. Above all, it was interesting!

RJ

5.0Reviewed Jan 17, 2022

Interesting and informative. I learned a lot from the instructor's insights.

GT

5.0Reviewed Mar 10, 2025

Very good content on health domains in various countries

JS

4.0Reviewed Jan 20, 2020

interesting. fits well with the other courses in this series

IS

5.0Reviewed Apr 25, 2021

Very interesting course and a really good instructor.

LL

4.0Reviewed Jul 16, 2023

did not have anything to do with healthcare law. Might have been better placed in a course about global health care.

JS

5.0Reviewed Nov 9, 2021

great review of very different health care systems, how they came to be what they are, how well they function and where they are going

All reviews

Showing: 20 of 28

MARCELA DIAS HANNA
5.0
Reviewed Apr 21, 2020
Yang Lirong
5.0
Reviewed Nov 15, 2020
Stephen Braddy
5.0
Reviewed Apr 23, 2020
Sunny
5.0
Reviewed Jun 3, 2023
James Steffen
5.0
Reviewed Nov 10, 2021
Tony Welwood
5.0
Reviewed Jul 16, 2020
Asuka Sekiguchi
5.0
Reviewed Jan 23, 2025
Raineer Bonifacio Jalon
5.0
Reviewed Jan 18, 2022
Muxtar Kazımov
5.0
Reviewed May 30, 2020
Govindaraju Tammireddy
5.0
Reviewed Mar 11, 2025
Isha Schez
5.0
Reviewed Apr 26, 2021
Isaac Mlan
5.0
Reviewed Jan 14, 2025
Randy Mason
5.0
Reviewed May 15, 2021
Robert B Singleton MSc. MCMA
5.0
Reviewed Jun 29, 2020
Mark Robert Dy
5.0
Reviewed Oct 5, 2020
Rachel Manlulu
5.0
Reviewed Jun 29, 2022
biel percy
5.0
Reviewed May 4, 2022
Kartik Sharma
5.0
Reviewed Oct 9, 2023
GHAZI FAIZ MOHAMMED ALASMARI
5.0
Reviewed Mar 3, 2023
Tonya S Williams
5.0
Reviewed May 24, 2020