HEALTH ECONOMICS

Academic year
2022/2023 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
ECONOMIA SANITARIA
Course code
EM1111 (AF:358677 AR:189724)
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
Second year course for the generic track of the laurea magistrale in GOVERNANCE DELLE ORGANIZZAZIONI PUBBLICHE
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
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.
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
11. Global Problem of Pandemics
Battacharya, J., T. Hyde, and P. Tu, 2014, Health Economics, Palgrave McMillan, New York, NY.

Gruber, J., 2019, Public Finance and Public Policy, 6th Edition, McMillan, New York, NY (Part III).

Folland, S., A. Goodman, and M. Stano, 2017, The Economics of Health and Health Care, 8th Edition, New York, NY.

Mapelli, V., 2012, Il sistema sanitario italiano, Il Mulino, Bologna.

Additional readings will be made available on moodle.
Written exam (exercises and open-ended questions).
Students attending the course will be given the opportunity of being partly assessed through class presentations.
The course mostly follows a conventional teaching approach, combined with active and flipped learning activities.
Italian
For any course-related information, students should trust only the course website on moodle.
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This programme is provisional and there could still be changes in its contents.
Last update of the programme: 14/09/2022