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| Detailed information |
| Pre-requisites |
(*)KS Einführung in die Volkswirtschaftslehre KS Einführung in die Mikroökonomie
ODER Zulassung zum Masterstudium Economic and Business Analytics
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| Original study plan |
Bachelor's programme Economics and Business 2025W |
| Learning Outcomes |
Competences |
| Students can understand and analyze the economic aspects of healthcare. They can explain the functioning of health insurance and evaluate the impacts of government interventions in the healthcare system.
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| Skills |
Knowledge |
- Students can explain the health production function and evaluate the importance of various inputs in health production. (Understanding (k2), Analyzing (k4))
- Students can explain and apply the concepts of technical and allocative efficiency in healthcare. (Understanding (k2), Applying (k3))
- Students can explain the role of health insurance in the healthcare system and analyze the effects of moral hazard and adverse selection. (Understanding (k2), Analyzing (k4))
- Students can discuss and analyze the economic aspects of current health policy issues. (Analyzing (k4), Evaluating (k5))
- Conduct marginal product analysis of healthcare services and apply economic models. (Applying (k3), Analyzing (k4))
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- Allocation problems and dealing with scarce resources.
- Efficiency and sustainability in healthcare.
- Technical and allocative efficiency.
- Health production function.
- Grossman model.
- Types of healthcare systems.
- Types of health insurance.
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| Criteria for evaluation |
Written examination
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| Methods |
Lecture and discussions
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| Language |
German |
| Study material |
PP Slides
- Folland, S., Goodmann, A. C. and Stano, M., 2007, The Economics of Health and Health Care, 5th edition, Pearson, Prentice Hall.
- Breyer, F., Zweifel, P. und Kifmann, M., 2005, Gesundheitsökonomik, Springer. Datei
- Phelps, Ch. E., 2002, Health Economics, 3rd edition, Addison Wesley.
- Johnson-Lans, S., 2006, A Health Economics Primer, Pearson, Addison Wesley.
Supplementary material can be found on the course’s web page.
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| Changing subject? |
No |
| Further information |
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| Earlier variants |
They also cover the requirements of the curriculum (from - to)
572AECOGESK15: KS Health Economics (2015W-2020S)
2OSUGOEK9: KS Health Economics (2009W-2015S)
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