健康經濟學
Health Economics
| 節 | 週三 |
|---|---|
3 10:10–11:00 | 健康經濟學 YS405 3 節連堂 |
4 11:10–12:00 | |
N 12:20–13:10 |
* 根據陽明交大上課時間表所列
COURSE OBJECTIVES This course introduces the key issues in health economics. At the end of this course, you will be able understand and analyze some of the important debates in the healthcare sector using economic theories. The primary objectives of this course: (1) To introduce application of basic microeconomic concepts and tools to resource allocation and policy problems facing health-sector decision makers internationally. (2) To cover the application of demand concepts to health care-seeking behavior and their implications for marketing and for the design of insurance programs, (3) To uses basic concepts of cost and production theory to examine problems in efficiency measurement and issues of market structure.
REQUIRED TEXT Michael Parkin. “ Economic” 2019 (13/E edition) (Any edition is fine) Sherman Folland et al. “The Economic of Health and Health Care” 2017 (8th edition)
COURSEWORK The work consists of: (1) mid-term exam (40%); (2) final exam (45%); and (3) assignments (10%) (4) student participation (5%).
| 週次 | 主題 |
|---|---|
| 第 1 週 | Introduction to HE, Demand and Supply |
| 第 2 週 | Elasticity |
| 第 3 週 | Efficiency and Equity, Utility and Demand |
| 第 4 週 | Output and Costs, Perfect Competition |
| 第 5 週 | Monopoly, Oligopoly, monopolistic competition |
| 第 6 週 | Market failure, externalities and common resources |
| 第 7 週 | The Production of Health, Socioeconomic Status and Health |
| 第 8 週 | Economic evaluation (Cost Benefit Analysis and cost effectiveness analysis) |
| 第 9 週 | Mid-term Exam |
| 第 10 週 | Demand for Health Capital |
| 第 11 週 | Economics of pandemic |
| 第 12 週 | Health care system and Health Insurance |
| 第 13 週 | Sports Day (no class) |
| 第 14 週 | Economic analysis of “bads” (smoking and obesity) |
| 第 15 週 | Behavioral economics |
| 第 16 週 | Final Exam |
| 第 17 週 | 補充教學 |
| 第 18 週 | 補充教學 |