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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 policy.
7.
Link different policy recommendations to specific types of market failure;
8.
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? What is so special about health? • Demand for health care • Demand for health: the Grossman model • Socioeconomic disparities in health • Population aging and its impact on health care cost • The labour market for physicians • The hospital industry • Economic epidemiology • Healthy lifestyle: obesity and its consequences • Cost and cost-effectiveness analysis • Cost-benefit analysis • Health policy topics • Health insurance markets