With their publicly financed, universal healthcare systems, Sweden and Denmark serve as unique case studies of the challenges and opportunities in modern public health issues.
Across Europe, healthcare systems face rising costs, aging populations, and unequal distributions of health, with each country responding differently to the challenges and opportunities that this situation presents healthcare systems.
Analyze and debate these challenges, while examining the interplay with the organization, financing, and priority-setting within different national systems.
Different countries choose different approaches to the provision of healthcare. Through this course, gain insight into how healthcare is organized and financed in Denmark and Northern Europe, and investigate the impact of the social, economic, and political history on the present systems...
Study Tours:
Helsinki-Tallinn, Helsinki-Rovaniemi, Denmark
Disciplines:
Government, Pre-Medicine / Health Science, Public Health, Public Policy
Migrants, including refugees, asylum seekers, and economic migrants, are voluntarily or involuntarily moving to new locations, such as Sweden. Upon arrival, some may be suffering from tuberculosis, HIV, or other diseases...
Study Tours:
Sweden, London
Disciplines:
Global Health, Political Science, Public Health, Public Policy, Sociology