Course sessions.
| Objective | Learn how to perform value chain analysis in health care and discuss ways it has been applied in developing countries. |
| Date | April 22, 2011 |
| Lecturer | Anjali Sastry
Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management
Executive Director, Global Health Delivery Project |
Lecture
Video of this lecture is not available.
Readings
- Bohmer, Richard M. J., and Thomas H. Lee. "The Shifting Mission of Health Care Delivery Organizations." New England Journal of Medicine 361, no. 6 (2009): 551-553.
- Porter, Michael, and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg. "Redefining Competition in Health Care." Harvard Business Review, 2004. (
PDF) - Rhatigan, Joseph, Sachin Jain, and Joia S. Mukherjee, et al. "Applying the Care Delivery Value Chain: HIV/AIDS Care in Resource Poor Settings." Working Paper for the Global Health Delivery Project, 2009. (PDF)
Discussion Questions
- What is a value chain analysis? What is its use?
- Why are health-care delivery organizations changing their missions? What are the pros and cons of this change?
- How was the value chain applied in the Rhatigan et al. article? What would you have done differently?
