HEALTH ECONOMICS
- Academic year
- 2019/2020 Syllabus of previous years
- Official course title
- ECONOMIA SANITARIA
- Course code
- EM1111 (AF:281915 AR:159336)
- Modality
- On campus classes
- ECTS credits
- 6
- Degree level
- Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
- Educational sector code
- SECS-P/03
- Period
- 1st Term
- Course year
- 2
- Where
- VENEZIA
- Moodle
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Contribution of the course to the overall degree programme goals
Second year course for the generic track of the laurea magistrale in GOVERNANCE DELLE ORGANIZZAZIONI PUBBLICHE
Expected learning outcomes
To enable students to:
Explain how economic theory predicts the supply, demand and consumption of health care
Think critically about health care policy
Analyze problems and current issues related to health and health care in Veneto, Italy, the United States, and other countries, and derive potential
solutions
Explain how economic theory predicts the supply, demand and consumption of health care
Think critically about health care policy
Analyze problems and current issues related to health and health care in Veneto, Italy, the United States, and other countries, and derive potential
solutions
Pre-requirements
Students are expected to be comfortable with the material covered in introductory and intermediate microeconomics courses. Some familiarity with statistics and exposure to regression analysis are helpful.
Contents
1. Introduction to Health Economics – How do Economists think about Health Issues
2. Microeconomic Tools for Health Economics
3. Statistical Tools for Health Economics
4. The Production of Health
5. The Demand for Health Care
6. The Grossman Model
7. Socioeconomic Disparities in Health
8. Health Insurance
9. Population Aging and Health Care Needs
10. Comparative Health Care Systems
2. Microeconomic Tools for Health Economics
3. Statistical Tools for Health Economics
4. The Production of Health
5. The Demand for Health Care
6. The Grossman Model
7. Socioeconomic Disparities in Health
8. Health Insurance
9. Population Aging and Health Care Needs
10. Comparative Health Care Systems
Referral texts
Folland, S., A. Goodman, and M. Stano, 2017, The Economics of Health and Health Care, 8th Edition, New York, NY.
Battacharya, J., T. Hyde, and P. Tu, 2014, Health Economics, Palgrave McMillan, New York, NY.
Mapelli, V., 2012, Il sistema sanitario italiano, Il Mulino, Bologna.
Additional readings will be made available on moodle.
Battacharya, J., T. Hyde, and P. Tu, 2014, Health Economics, Palgrave McMillan, New York, NY.
Mapelli, V., 2012, Il sistema sanitario italiano, Il Mulino, Bologna.
Additional readings will be made available on moodle.
Assessment methods
Written exam (exercises and open-ended questions).
Students attending the course will be given the opportunity of being partly assessed through class presentations.
Students attending the course will be given the opportunity of being partly assessed through class presentations.
Teaching methods
The course mostly follows a conventional teaching approach, combined with active and flipped learning activities
Teaching language
Italian
Further information
For any course-related information, students should trust only the course website on moodle (password provided in class or during office hours).
Type of exam
written
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals
This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Human capital, health, education" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development
Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 25/08/2019