EC34010 - HEALTH ECONOMICS 2

Module Identifier	EC34010
Module Title	HEALTH ECONOMICS 2
Academic Year	2002/2003
Co-ordinator	Ms Susan T Charles
Semester	Intended for use in future years
Next year offered	N/A
Next semester offered	N/A
Pre-Requisite	EC30230
Course delivery	Lecture	13 Hours
	Seminars / Tutorials	4 Hours
Assessment	Semester Exam		100%

Objectives

On completion students should have:

An understanding of how to assess empirically the microeconomic analysis of asymmetric information, principal-agent relationships and contract design to understand and analyse policy issues in the provision and finance of health care;

An appreciation of how to assess empirically the predictions and policy proposals arising from that microeconomic analysis with regard to the charging of patients, the remuneration of doctors and the performance of the 'internal market';

An appreciation of how to make, and the issues involved in making, cross-country comparisons of institutional arrangements for the provision and finance of health care.

Aims

The broad purpose of this module is to give an applied microeconomic analysis of institutional arrangements for the provision of health care and health insurance. More specifically, we will consider how problems associated with asymmetric information (adverse selection and moral hazard) manifest themselves within alternative health systems, how they are handled, and to whatend.