ES22025: Health economics
[Page last updated: 03 June 2024]
| Academic Year: | 2024/25 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Economics |
| Credits: | 10 [equivalent to 20 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 200 |
| Level: | Intermediate (FHEQ level 5) |
| Period: |
- Semester 2
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| Assessment Summary: | EXCB 100% |
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
Before taking this module you must take ES12001
WHILE TAKING THIS MODULE YOU MUST take ES22012
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| Learning Outcomes: |
- Apply key microeconomic techniques to problems related to health and health care markets.
- Apply/understand statistical and econometric techniques to problems related to health and health care.
- Describe and evaluate key current policy issues related to health. Compare health policies.
- Develop knowledge of the literature and be able to evaluate and present journal articles or working papers.
- Discuss main trends in health care and identify solutions to problems.
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| Synopsis: | "Apply microeconomic and econometrics theory to issues in health and healthcare.
You will learn about health as an output, and explore the similarities and differences between health, healthcare and other economic goods.
You will also develop your understanding of the measurements and determinants of health and health care, and how to evaluate government policies in this context."
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| Content: | This unit covers issues related to the production of health, demand for health capital, and socio-economic disparities in health. It investigates the main elements of health care including physician agency and hospital structure. The final part of the course focuses on the role of government in designing health and healthcare policies.
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| Course availability: |
ES22025 is Optional on the following courses:
Department of Economics
- UHES-AFB10 : BSc(Hons) Economics (Year 2)
- UHES-AFB11 : BSc(Hons) Economics with Politics (Year 2)
- UHES-AKB11 : BSc(Hons) Economics with Politics with professional placement (Year 2)
- UHES-AKB11 : BSc(Hons) Economics with Politics with professional placement and study abroad (Year 2)
- UHES-AKB11 : BSc(Hons) Economics with Politics with study abroad (Year 2)
- UHES-AKB10 : BSc(Hons) Economics with professional placement (Year 2)
- UHES-AKB10 : BSc(Hons) Economics with professional placement and study abroad (Year 2)
- UHES-AKB10 : BSc(Hons) Economics with study abroad (Year 2)
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Notes: - This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2024/25 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2025/26 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2024/25.
- Courses and units are subject to change in accordance with normal University procedures.
- Availability of units will be subject to constraints such as staff availability, minimum and maximum group sizes, and timetabling factors as well as a student's ability to meet any pre-requisite rules.
- Find out more about these and other important University terms and conditions here.
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