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Course organization
Course outline
Lecture times Tutorials Learning objectives Assessments: Quizzes, Class presentation, Mid-term test &
final exam Class presentation topic: Health care systems in other countries Readings: Textbook & additional readings Blackboard
Expectations Class representative
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Lecture format
Overview of topics
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
a. b. c. d.
i. ii. iii. iv.
What is health economics Characteristics of health and healthcare The production of health The demand for health and healthcare services Health insurance: Demand and Supply The supply of healthcare services
Production and cost of healthcare services Health care labour markets Pharmaceuticals (and medical equipment) Types of healthcare providers
Physician Hospitals Non-profit firms Managed Care
7. 8. 9.
3
Government intervention in health markets Assessment and evaluation of health interventions Health systems around the world
microeconomics to consumption, production, and exchange of health and healthcare to and within.resources spent on health in total and on different dimensions/aspects of health health economy ..the entire configuration of actors and behaviour (action & interaction) mechanisms that 5 produce health
Government
2. What is health & healthcare
Consumers
Producers
4. Demand for health & Financiers healthcare 5. Health insurance demand and supply
3. Health production
as share of GDP as share of government expenditures as share of personal expenditures increase over time
Health, 17%
Environmental protection, 3%
Household spending in NZ
Average weekly household expenditure on health Table 1(3) HES
20 15 10
5
0 2006/07 2009/10 Medical products, appliances, and equipment Out-patient services Hospital services
11
Education, $17
Recreation and culture, $99
Alcoholic beverages, tobacco, and illicit drugs, $29 Housing and Clothing and footwear, $31 household utilities, $253
Communicatio n, $36
Transport, $131
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13
Physicians
14
Nurses
Hospital beds
15