Course Name

Health Service Administration

Course Number

0ATHE23Credits

1.0 Credits

Adaptation years

1, 2 YearClass hold days

FallAB Thu4

Instructor

Nanako Tamiya, Takehiro Sugiyama, Masao Iwagami

Overview

1To understand the policy and systems for administering health services inJapan
2 To understand the practices of health services in Japan.
3 To understand Health Services Research from the point of view of theadministration of health services.
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to examine the current
issues on health system and its administration based on basic theories from theprism of Health Services Research.
Remarks

Lectures are conducted in English.
face‑to‑face(partially online)

Course Typelectures

Relation to Degree

Core area 3 of public health sciences: an ability for application of health

Program Competences

policy and management skills to apply basic knowledge relating to health policyand management

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to examine the current(Learning Outcomes)

issues on health system and its administration based on basic theories from theprism of Health Services Research.

Class Schedule

Lectures are given face‑to‑face, but depending on the situation, there is apossibility of scheduled online (on‑demand)
1. Lecture1 (October 5th)
TAMIYA Nanako
Introduction.
2. Lecture2 (October 12th)
TAMIYA Nanako
Health insurance system in Japan.

3. Lecture3 (October 19th)
TAMIYA Nanako
The Principles of Cost‑Effectiveness Analysis and their application.

4. Lecture4 (October 26th)
TAMIYA Nanako
Clinical prediction rule and HSR

5. Lecture5 (November 9th)
IWAGAMI Masao
Epidemiological and statistical methods for hospital management

6. Lecture6 (November 16th)
SUGIYAMA TakehiroClass Schedule

Health services quality and its accreditation.

7. Lecture7 (November 24th)
TAMIYA Nanako
Enhancing capacity and quality of outpatient mental health services.

8. Lecture8 (November 27th)
TAMIYA Nanako
Health Services Research for supporting caregivers.

9. Lecture9 (December 7th)
TAMIYA Nanako
Medical entrepreneur in aging society: Challenges on social capitaldevelopment.

10. Lecture10 (December 14th)
TAMIYA Nanako
Summary.
Course Prerequisites

None

Grading Philosophy

Class attendance and participation, oral presentation; written exam or report,
depending on the spread of the COVID‑19.

Course Hours

All classes are conducted in lectures (almost 100%).

Breakdown and Out‑of‑Preparing for the range of classes and reviewing then after class.

Class Learning
Textbooks,

1. 国民衛生の動向 厚生統計協会

References,and

2. Health and Welfare Statistics Association Journal of Health and Welfare

Supplementarystatistics (Suppl.) (Japanese)

Materials
Office Hours andNanako Tamiya (Institute of medical building 840, ex.8324, ntamiya@md.tsukuba.

Contact Informationac.jp)
NanakoTamiya ntamiya at md.tsukuba.ac.jp

http://www.md.tsukuba.ac.jp/hsr/
Other(Behavioral(1)

We will upload the materials on manaba.

expectations and(2)Attendance

points to note for

For face‑to‑face classes: We will confirm the attendance with an attendance

students duringsheet.

coursework)

For on‑demand classes: We will confirm the attendance by checking the survey(impression of the lecture less than 75 words) submitted from manaba. The
contents of the short report do not affect your evaluation..
(3)

Others

The students can ask questions on the bulletin board on Manaba.

Relation to OtherCourses

Teaching Fellow
and/or Teaching
AssistantCourse Keywords

Health services administration, Health services research, hospital management,
Health services quality and its accreditation, cost‑effectiveness analysis,
outpatient mental health services, Health insurance system, Public health