The Institute of Health Policy & Management

Institute of Health Policy & Management: iBMGEducation and research in the field of policy and management in health care with a unique multidisciplinary approach.

iBMG• Part of Erasmus University / Faculty of Medicine and

Health Sciences and linked with Erasmus MC

• Cooperation with numerous partners in health care

• Leading in the Netherlands with educational and research activities targeted at policy and management issues in health care

• Multidisciplinary approach in research and education

Erasmus University Rotterdam

Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

Erasmus Medical Centre Institute of Health Policy & Management

6 other faculties

Education

• Bachelor Health Policy & Management

• Master Health Care Management

• Master Health Economics, Policy & Law

• Post Academic Education

Students

Research themes• Competition and regulation in health care

• Quality and efficiency in health care

• Management and organisation of health care delivery

Research theme: Competition and regulation in health care

• Defining the conditions for effective competition in the health care markets (e.g. balance of powers of stakeholders) and devising regulatory policies to promote them;

• Determining the most efficient way of contracting in the different submarkets;

• Determining the institutional arrangements required for regulation of the various submarkets;

• Measuring the performance in the various markets in terms of efficiency and equity.

Research theme: Quality and efficiency in health care

• Health care technologies (curative interventions, medicines, preventive/public health programs, diagnostic strategies) constituting the basic health care package, the criteria that should be applied in delineating the package and the operationalisation of these criteria;

• Relevant performance indicators which are reliable, readily accessible to actors in the market and instrumental in care purchasing.

Research theme: Management and organisation of health care delivery

• Concepts and instruments from business economics and organisation as developed in commercial sectors will be adjusted for successful implementation within health care organisations.

Research groups

• Health Services Management & Organisation

• Health Economics-iMTA

• Law & Health Care

• Health Care Governance

• Health Insurance

Staff

• 187 employees (2012)

– 18 professors

– 13 associate professors

– 22 assistant professors

– 8 scientific lecturers

– 57 scientific researchers

– 34 PhD-students

– 35 administrative staff

Future

• Global Health

• More emphasis on international education

• More exchange (education and research)

More information

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