SUBJECT

Introduction to health economics

lecture

master

Faculty of Social Sciences

Health Policy, Planning and Financing (Specialization in Health Economics) MSc (part time)

4

Semester 1

Autumn semester

Students should learn basic terms of health economics and understand key principles. Topics cover the economic mechanisms of health care markets as market failures, supply and demand of health care, resource allocation principles, equity aspects of health care financing and delivery, and micro- and macro-dynamics of health expenditures. Analysis of demand and supply factors of health care expenditure, and methods of sustainable health care financing are discussed briefly.

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• Folland, Sherman; Goodman, Allen C.; Stano, Miron: The Economics of Health and Health Care (7th Edition) 2010,  Glossary
• Donaldson C. and Gerard K. Economics of Health Care Financing: The Visible Hand. Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1993. Chapter 2
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• Marc Suhrcke, Regina Sauto Arce, Martin McKee and Lorenzo Rocco: Economic costs of ill health in the European Region
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