FINC 458 — Health Insurance
Finance · University of Ghana
This course aims at teaching students the differences in the nature of private individual health insurance and the social national health insurance schemes; the operational aspects of health insurance schemes; and the distinction between individual and group health insurance schemes. The course will also make clear the business uses of individual health insurance. Specific topics include: principles of health insurance, underwriting the health risk, the health insurance contract, determination of premiums (Individual and Group premiums), claims management, cost containment, handling of reserves, the main types of health insurance protection, hospitals as insurers and health financing reform in developing countries.
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Level 400
- Semester
- Semester Two
Other courses on this programme
- FINC 401 — Investment Fundamentals
- FINC 402 — Monetary Theory
- FINC 403 — Bank Management
- FINC 404 — International Finance and Banking
- FINC 405 — Banking Operations
- FINC 406 — Financial Markets
- FINC 407 — Labour Economics
- FINC 408 — Microfinance
- FINC 451 — Introduction to Actuarial Science
- FINC 452 — Property and Pecuniary Insurance
- FINC 453 — Elements of Risk and Insurance
- FINC 454 — Assurance of the Person
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Start freeCourse details from University of Ghana Volume 2 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Humanities (2017).