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Offerings

MURDOCH-T2-EXT-2021-2021
MURDOCH-T2-INT-2021-2021
MURDOCH-T3-EXT-2021-2021
MURDOCH-T3-INT-2021-2021

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Enrolment rules

Enrolment in a graduate level course.

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Learning outcomes

1.

Analyse the economic complexities of health and health care relevant for health policy and management;

2.

Identify the key economic trade-offs implied in different healthcare allocation problems, and analyse their implications;

3.

Critically examine the economic reasons behind trends in health care system development;

4.

Critically discuss the way different health systems address these fundamental trade-offs;

5.

Apply economic and statistical tools to concrete health economics issues that arise in the work place;

6.

Critically evaluate a research design used to identify the effects of a health financing policy;

7.

Link different policy recommendations to specific types of market failure;

8.

Apply analytical skills to interpret, analyse and synthesise data from a variety of sources and communicate information effectively.

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Additional information

Unit content:
  • Essential microeconomics toolkit
  • Health economics: why is it relevant? Interaction between health & economy
  • Demand for health care, ageing on the demand of health care services
  • Supply of health care services, labour market for physicians, hospital industry, supply shortage and uneven distribution of the health workforce
  • Health care financing & insurance markets, developing health financing strategy for universal coverage
  • Socioeconomic disparities and inefficiency in health care, implications of GP bulk billing in health equity
  • Impacts of globalisation on health care systems, measuring of health care system performance
  • Economic evaluation of health care, appraisal of published economic evaluation
  • Market failure in health care