Veranstaltungen
Vorlesung mit integrierter Übung
Health Economics: The Demand for Health and Health Care Payments
- Name im Diploma Supplement
- Health Economics: The Demand for Health and Health Care Payments
- Anbieter
- Lehrstuhl für VWL, insb. Gesundheitsökonomik
- Lehrperson
- Prof. Dr. Martin Karlsson
- SWS
- 4
- Sprache
- englisch
- Turnus
- Wintersemester
- maximale Hörerschaft
- unbeschränkt
- Hörerschaft
empfohlenes Vorwissen
Good knowledge of microeconomics required.
Abstract
This course covers several basic health economic concepts, focusing especially on health care demand and payment schemes in health care systems. Students should be ready for a rigorous application of microeconomic models.
Lehrinhalte
- Economic Evaluation of Life and Health
- Individual Health Production
- Empirical Evidence on Individual Health Production
- Peculiarities of Health and Health Care Goods and their allocative consequences
- Payment Systems: Regulating Incentives for Health Care Providers
- Risk-Selection and Competition between Health Insurers
Literaturangaben
- Zweifel, P. / Breyer, F. /Kifman, M. (2009): Health Economics, 2nd edition, Springer, Berlin.
didaktisches Konzept
Die Veranstaltung entspricht einem Vorlesungsanteil von 2 SWS und einem Übungsanteil von 2 SWS.