23-36.904.172 Health Economics

Lehrende: Katharina Beenk; Prof. Dr. Mathias Kifmann

Veranstaltungsart: Vorlesung + Übung

Anzeige im Stundenplan: Health Econ.

Semesterwochenstunden: 3

Credits: 6,0

Unterrichtssprache: Englisch

Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | -

Weitere Informationen:

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 e-book)

Additional literature will be referred to during the course.


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.