Informations about the modules
Module (6 Credits)
Health Economics: The Provision of Health Care Services and Health Insurance
- Name in diploma supplement
- Health Economics: The Provision of Health Care Services and Health Insurance
- Responsible
- Admission criteria
- See exam regulations.
- Workload
- 180 hours of student workload, in detail:
- Attendance: 60 hours
- Preparation, follow up: 60 hours
- Exam preparation: 60 hours
- Duration
- The module takes 1 semester(s).
- Qualification Targets
Students taking the course will
- Acquire an overview on health economic research (theory and empirical evidence) with respect to health care providers and health insurers
- Learn how to critically assess the incentives of actors in the health care market from a microeconomic point of view
- Are enabled to evaluate different policy interventions in health care markets
- Relevance
Actors within health care markets face different incentives. The health economic perspective analyses how these incentives influence the resulting market outcomes.
- Module Exam
Final written exam (usually 90-120 min.)
Die Prüfung in diesem Modul darf nicht abgelegt werden, wenn "Gesundheitsökonomik II" oder "Gesundheitsökonomik: Leistungserbringer und Krankenversicherung" bereits bestanden ist.
- Usage in different degree programs
- Elements
Lecture with integrated exercise (6 Credits)
Health Economics: The Provision of Health Care Services and Health Insurance
- Name in diploma supplement
- Health Economics: The Provision of Health Care Services and Health Insurance
- Organisational Unit
- Lecturers
- SPW
- 4
- Language
- English
- Cycle
- summer semester
- Participants at most
- no limit
- Preliminary knowledge
Good knowledge of microeconomics required.
- Abstract
The students gain a sound knowledge topics related to the efficient provision of health care services and health insurance. The course covers theoretical as well as recent empirical contributions.
- Contents
- Hospital services and efficiency
- Optimal design of health insurance contracts
- Providers and third-party payers
- Medical liability
- The political economy of health care
- The market for pharmaceuticals
- Literature
- Barros, P., and X. Martinez-Giralt. Health Economics: An Industrial Organization Perspective. Routledge Chapman & Hall (2012).
- Zweifel, P., Breyer, F., and M. Kifmann. Health Economics. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg (2009).
- Teaching concept
Die Veranstaltung entspricht einem Vorlesungsanteil von 2 SWS und einem Übungsanteil von 2 SWS.
- Participants