|
 Academic Year:
| 2013/4 |
| Owning Department/School:
| Department of Economics |
| Credits:
| 6 |
| Level:
| Honours (FHEQ level 6) |
| Period: |
Semester 1 |
| Assessment:
| CW 30%, EX 70% |
| Supplementary Assessment: |
Reassessment exam (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites:
| Before taking this unit you must take ES20011. This unit is only available to students in the Department of Economics. |
| Description:
| Aims: The aim of the unit is to present the main themes in health economics, and health care policy, both from a theoretical and empirical stance. Learning Outcomes: By the end of the unit the student should be able to: * Apply key microeconomic techniques to problems related to health and health care markets. * Apply/understand statistical and econometric techniques to problems related to health and health care. (Interpret output from regressions). * Describe and evaluate key current policy issues related to health. Compare health policies. * Evaluate and present journal articles from the health economics literature. * Discuss main trends in health care and identify/design solutions to those problems. Skills: * Problem solving: Critical evaluation * Numeracy: Mathematical operations, Interpretation of mathematics, Econometrics and statistics * Communication: Presentation Skills, Independent inquiry. Content: The unit will cover the following topics: 1) Introduction to health economics (Trends in health spending, cross country comparisons, elementary concepts and selected topics in modern health economics) 2) The Production of Health 3) Cost effectiveness/ cost benefit analysis 4) Demand for medical Care 5) Imperfect Information and medical care 6) Health Insurance 7) Physician Behaviour 8) Hospital Behaviour 9) Health Behaviour: Economics of Cigarettes, Alcohol and Obesity 10) Experiments in Health: Incentives and Habit Formation 11) Economic epidemiology: HIV/Aids. |
| Programme availability: |
ES30083 is Optional on the following programmes:Department of Economics
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