Health Economics
AY2024/2025 Semester 2
This course aims to study the basic principles of economics of health and healthcare. We will cover topics such as production of health, market for insurance and its issues such as adverse selection and moral hazard, and supply of physician and organization of hospitals and payments systems. Lastly we will cover recent issues in health economics such as role of health in economic development, persistent issues of high medical inflation, and behavioral aspects of health and sin-taxes. The course prepares you for a career in government (e.g. Ministry of Health, Ministry of Finance), private sector (policy think tanks and consultancies addressing and advising on organization of healthcare), and academia.
| AUs | 3.0 AUs |
| Categories | CoreMinorsBDE |
| Not Available To All Programme With | (Admyr 2011-2020) |
| Exam |
Available indexes
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 930 | 19565 TUT (T1) 0930-1020 Thu TR+93, ONLINE Wk2,4-13, Teaching Wk3 | COMMON LEC (LEC1) 0930-1120 Fri LT24, ONLINE Wk1,2,4-13, Teaching Wk3 | |||
| 1000 | |||||
| 1030 | 19566 TUT (T2) 1030-1120 Thu TR+93, ONLINE Wk2,4-13, Teaching Wk3 | ||||
| 1100 | |||||
| 1130 | 19567 TUT (T3) 1130-1220 Thu TR+93, ONLINE Wk2,4-13, Teaching Wk3 | ||||
| 1200 |