Universidad Pública de Navarra - Nafarroako Univertsitate Publikoa
Public University of Navarre
| Course code: 171702 | Subject title: ECONOMICS OF HEALTH | ||||
| Credits: 6 | Type of subject: Optative | Year: 4 | Period: 1º S | ||
| Department: Economía | |||||
| Lecturers: | |||||
| GARCIA PRADO, ARIADNA MARÍA [Mentoring ] | SANCHEZ IRISO, EDUARDO (Resp) [Mentoring ] | ||||
| AGUIRRE ELVIRA, DANIEL [Mentoring ] | |||||
Contents
The subject focuses on the theory supporting behavior in the health sector. It is structured in 8 different chapters that deal with relevant topics such as: Growth and health, efficiency in the delivery of health services, equity in health and allocation of resources, different health systems and reforms, economic evaluation of health programs, Cost-effectiveness Analysis and Cost Utility Analysis among others.
Learning outcomes
RA02: Analyze economic institutions as the result and application of theoretical or formal representations of how the economy works.
RA03: Explain the functions of economic agents and the role of institutions in economic and social activity at its different territorial levels (from local institutions to international organizations).
RA04: Identify the main instruments of public intervention and relate policy recommendations to economic, environmental, and social sustainability.
RA06: Identify and anticipate relevant economic problems related to resource allocation in general, both in the private and public spheres.
RA09: Identify and recognize relevant sources of economic information and their content.
RA10: Derive relevant information from economic and social data that is difficult for non-professionals to recognize.
RA12: Manage resource allocation effectively, both in the private and public spheres.
RA13: Apply rationality to the analysis and description of any aspect of economic reality.
RA14: Evaluate the consequences of different action alternatives and select the best ones given the objectives.
RA17: Prepare reports and convey ideas on any economic matter, clearly and coherently, to both specialized and non-specialized audiences.
RA18: Work in a team, being able to argue their proposals and validate or reasonably refuse the arguments of others.
RA19: Organize work, in terms of good time management, order, and planning.
RA20: Select and generate the necessary information for each problem, analyze it, and make decisions based on it.
Evaluation
| Learning outcomes | Evaluation system | Weigh (%) | Is it possible to recover) | Minimum required grade |
| All | Exercises/Essay | 20 | Yes | 0/10 |
| All | Tests | 60 | Yes | 0/10 |
| All | Presentation | 20 | Yes | 0/10 |
Agenda
First Part. Health, Health Services and Economy
Chapter 1. Health and Economy
Chapter 2. The health market
Chapter 3. Health Demand
Chapter 4. Health Supply
Second Part: Health Systems
Chapter 5. Health Systems and Health System Reforms
Chapter 6: Equity in health and Health Systems in Developing Countries
Third Part: Economic Evaluation of Health Programs
Chapter 7. Economic Evaluation of Health Programs
Chapter 8. Cost-Utility Analysis and health measurement
Bibliography
Access the bibliography that your professor has requested from the Library.
FOLLAND S, A GOODMAN y M STANO (7th edition, 2014): The economics of health and health care. Ed Pearsons.
ZWEIFEL, P., F. BREYER y M KIFMANN (2009): "Health Economics" (Second edition) Springer-Verlag. Berlin.
MUENNING, P. (2008). Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health. A practical approach. (2nd edition). Jossey-Bass. San Francisco. CA 94103-1741.
GOLD, M., J. SIEGEL, L. RUSSELL, Y M. WEINSTEIN (Eds.) (1996). "Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine". Oxford University Press, Oxford.
JACOBS R, PC SMITH Y A STREET (2006). Measuring efficiency in health care: analytic techniques and health policy. Cambridge University Press.
JONES A (2006). The Elgar companion to health economics. Edward Elgar Publishing Limited.
M LOCKETT, TONY (1996): "Health Economics for the uninitiated". Radclife Medical Press. Oxford and New York.