HEALTH ECONOMICS
GRADO ECONOMÍA
Curso 2022/2023
1. Datos de la asignatura
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- 103756
- Plan
- ECTS
- 6.00
- Carácter
- OPTATIVA
- Curso
- 4
- Periodicidad
- Segundo Semestre
- Área
- ECONOMÍA APLICADA
- Departamento
- Economía Aplicada
- Plataforma Virtual
Datos del profesorado
- Coordinador/Coordinadora
- José María Elena Izquierdo
- Grupo/s
- Único
- Centro
- Fac. Economía y Empresa
- Departamento
- Economía Aplicada
- Área
- Economía Aplicada
- Despacho
- 166 (Facultad de Derecho)
- Horario de tutorías
- To be determined
- URL Web
- -
- jomarel@usal.es
- Teléfono
- 923.294500 ext. 1653
2. Sentido de la materia en el plan de estudios
Bloque formativo al que pertenece la materia.
Campos de aplicación
Papel de la asignatura.
Knowledge of the characteristics of health as an investment and the approach to health care from economic analysis.
Perfil profesional.
Freelance professionals of economics and employees of the Public Administrations or private firms.
3. Recomendaciones previas
It is advisable to have a basic knowledge of microeconomics and the analysis of public sector intervention in the economy. Intermediate or intermediate-high level of English (B2-C1)
4. Objetivo de la asignatura
Students should know how to analyze the problems derived from market failures at different levels of healthcare delivery.
Students should be able to carry out an economic evaluation of a specific health technology considering the cost-effectiveness, cost-utility or cost-benefit analysis.
Students will be able to realize informed and useful reports about a given proposal to reform the health care system or any of its elements.
5. Contenidos
Teoría.
- Basic concepts in health economics. Measurement and determinants of health. Aggregated health indicators. Healthcare systems organization.
- Health as an investment: production and demand for health. The demand for health care and health insurance.
- Health services providers. Variations in medical practice. Financing schemes for healthcare providers.
- Market failures and failures of public intervention in healthcare. Attitudes towards health: rational addictions and behavioral economics in healthcare.
- Evidence-based medicine: costs and outcomes. Methods for the economic evaluation of health technologies.
- Efficiency and equity in healthcare. Healthcare policies and recent reforms in healthcare systems.
6. Competencias a adquirir
Básicas / Generales.
C2, C4, C9, C17
Específicas.
C5, C8, C9, C18,
Transversales.
C23, C25, C27
7. Metodologías
The subject pivots between theoretical classes based on general handbooks and specialized papers (presented by students in class) and practical classes reviewing concepts and applying theoretical content to case studies. In addition, at least two online test controls will be carried out to review and keep up to date the contents seen throughout the course.
8. Previsión de Técnicas (Estrategias) Docentes
9. Recursos
Libros de consulta para el alumno.
"Health Economics", Jay Bhattacharya, Timothy Hyde and Peter Tu, Palgrave McMillan, 2014
“Economic analysis in health care”, S. Morris, N. Devlin, D. Parkin y A. Spencer. Ed. John Wiley & Sons, 2ª ed. 2012.
Otras referencias bibliográficas, electrónicas o cualquier otro tipo de recurso.
B. González López-Valcárcel, J. Oliva Moreno, M. Trapero Beltrán, A. Hidalgo Vega y J. E. del Llano Señarís. “Economía de la salud”, Ed.Pirámide, 2018.
Martínez-Giralt, X. Economía de la Salud. Una guía para no economistas. Center for the Study of Organizations and Decisions in Economics (CODE). Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona. Mayo 2008
10. Evaluación
Consideraciones generales.
The evaluation is carried out by combining the result obtained in the final examination, the result obtained in the online evaluations and the practical participation through the presentation of complementary readings and the resolution of practical problems.
Criterios de evaluación.
The final exam will involve between 50% and 60% of the final grade. The combination of active class participation (e.g. in practice resolution), the presentation of supplementary readings and the online test scores will provide the remaining percentage (between 40% and 50%).
Instrumentos de evaluación.
Theoretical-practical final exam
Online tests
Practice resolutions
Presentation of supplementary readings in class
Assistance and class participation
Recomendaciones para la evaluación.
It is highly recommended to take all online tests and present one of the readings in class
Recomendaciones para la recuperación.
The recovery criteria shall, by default, be the same as those of the first evaluation. Students who have not scored in any of the continuing assessment items will only be evaluated by the final exam on a scale of 0 to 7 out of 10