SAY 509 - Health Economics

In addition to general economic information, the economic analysis of the health sector, economic evaluation techniques in the health sector, production and cost functions in health services, the impact of health sector on economic growth and development, health sector financing, economic objectives of the health care system, production and output in health sector, health cost, health care and goods demand, health service and goods supply, market types in health sector, economic evaluation in health services, social security, state intervention in health market, health labor force.

Introduction to health economics, Elasticity of demand in health and factors affecting it, Elasticity of demand in health and factors affecting it, Elasticity of supply and affecting factors in health, Key actors in healthcare supply, Cost of healthcare production, cost-technology relationship, Efficiency in healthcare supply, equity, Health services financing, health care financing, market structures, the role of the state in the health sector, economic evaluation techniques.