23-36.903.152 Health Economics

Lehrende: Prof. Dr. Mathias Kifmann

Veranstaltungsart: Vorlesung

Anzeige im Stundenplan: Health Econ.

Semesterwochenstunden: 3

Credits: 6,0

Unterrichtssprache: Englisch

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Contents:

This course uses microeconomic methods to analyze how decisions are taken by actors in the health care system. Among the topics covered are:

- market failures in the health care
- the demand for health insurance
- risk selection by health insurers
- physician behavior
- paying providers
- the market for pharmaceuticals

We will examine a number of important policy issues, e.g., the regulation of health insurance markets and the design of payment schemes.

The course consists of a lecture and an exercise session.

Literature:

The course is based on

Zweifel, P., F. Breyer and M. Kifmann. Health Economics, 2nd edition. Springer, New York et al., 2009 (available as an e-book)

Useful reference books are

Culyer, A. Encyclopedia of Health Economics. Elsevier, Oxford. 2014.

Culyer, A. and J. Newhouse (eds.). Handbook of Health Economics, Vol. 1A & 1B. North-Holland, Amsterdam, 2000.

Pauly, M.V., McGuire, T.G. and Pita Barros, P. (eds.). Handbook of Health Economics, Vol. 2. North-Holland, Amsterdam, 2011.

Glied, S. and P.C. Smith (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Health Economics. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011.

Jones, A.M. (ed.). The Elgar Companion to Health Economics, 2nd edition. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2012.

Grading:

Exam duration: 90 min.

Student contributions in the course work can improve the final grade for the course by up to 0.7 points.