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Modul (6 Credits)
Inequality in Health
- Name im Diploma Supplement
- Inequality in Health
- Verantwortlich
- Voraussetzungen
- Siehe Prüfungsordnung.
- Workload
- 180 Stunden studentischer Workload gesamt, davon:
- Präsenzzeit: 60 Stunden
- Vorbereitung, Nachbereitung: 60 Stunden
- Prüfungsvorbereitung: 60 Stunden
- Dauer
- Das Modul erstreckt sich über 1 Semester.
- Qualifikationsziele
Students taking this course will
- get familiar with quantitative measurement and decomposition methods for health and income inequality
- learn how health is related to socioeconomic status, poverty, economic development, demographic transition, income inequality and equity
- deepen their theoretical and empirical knowledge of health economics
- acquire a broad understanding of the importance of health-related factors for economy and society
- Praxisrelevanz
The association of health and social status is widely recognized. As this phenomenon is often regarded as being undesirable from a normative point of view, the evaluation of its causes and effects has a high relevance from a policy perspective.
- Prüfungsmodalitäten
Final written exam on the teaching materials covered in lectures and tutorials (usually 60-90 min.).
- Verwendung in Studiengängen
- Bestandteile
Vorlesung mit integrierter Übung (6 Credits)
Inequality in Health
- Name im Diploma Supplement
- Inequality in Health
- Anbieter
- Lehrperson
- SWS
- 4
- Sprache
- englisch
- Turnus
- Wintersemester
- maximale Hörerschaft
- unbeschränkt
- empfohlenes Vorwissen
Good knowledge of econometrics required.
- Abstract
The students gain a sound knowledge of the theory and empirical contributions in the area of inequality in health.
- Lehrinhalte
- Measurement, Decomposition and Quantitative Analysis of Inequality
- Poverty and Health
- Income Inequality and Health
- The Emergence of a Social Gradient in Health
- Distributive Justice and Health
- Literaturangaben
- Currie, J., 2009. Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Socioeconomic Status, Poor Health in Childhood, and Human Capital Development. Journal of Economic Literature 47 (1), 87-122
- Deaton, A., 2003. Health, Inequality, and Economic Development. Journal of Economic Literature 41 (1), 113-158
- didaktisches Konzept
Die Veranstaltung entspricht einem Vorlesungsanteil von 2 SWS und einem Übungsanteil von 2 SWS.
- Hörerschaft