Empowering Patient Organisations: Navigating Healthcare Ecosystem, Economics and Engagement
Training Provider: SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
Course Reference: TGS-2024045546
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About This Course
This course equips patient leaders with essential skills and knowledge to navigate Singapore's healthcare ecosystem and contribute effectively to decision-making processes. Participants gain a comprehensive understanding of the healthcare landscape, including its financing model and stakeholder dynamics. Through theoretical exploration and practical exercises, attendees learn about health economics, drug development, and patient advocacy. The course emphasizes Singapore's unique approach to universal health coverage and health equity, empowering participants to drive positive change and enhance patient outcomes within the healthcare system.
What You'll Learn
1. To gain understanding of the fundamentals of health economics and healthcare financing in Singapore, and how government intervention and schemes, insurance schemes and out-of-pocket expenditures, come together to create Singapore's healthcare financing model and its impact on healthcare access and affordability.
2. To gain understanding of Singapore's healthcare ecosystem, examining its structure, policies and stakeholders, as well as its philosophy for universal health coverage, health equity, and the role of patients and patient organisations.
3. To gain awareness and understanding of the overall drug development process, including the reimbursement and health technology assessment processes.
4. To gain a deeper understanding of the multiplicity of the role of patient organisations;
5. To gain understanding of evidence-based patient engagement in practice.
6. To gain understanding of action planning (policy, media, community engagement)
2. To gain understanding of Singapore's healthcare ecosystem, examining its structure, policies and stakeholders, as well as its philosophy for universal health coverage, health equity, and the role of patients and patient organisations.
3. To gain awareness and understanding of the overall drug development process, including the reimbursement and health technology assessment processes.
4. To gain a deeper understanding of the multiplicity of the role of patient organisations;
5. To gain understanding of evidence-based patient engagement in practice.
6. To gain understanding of action planning (policy, media, community engagement)
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