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Economics in health care affects an individual’s ability to pay for and receive health care, the ability of an institution to provide health care services, and nurses’ ability to provide safe, quality care to the communities they serve.
“Health economics” as a course is meant to give medical, health officer and other paramedical students basic principles regarding economics and its application to the health sector.
Economics is the study of how individuals and societies make decisions about how to use their limited resources. Health care is considered a limited resource because there isn’t enough money or time in the world to purchase and provide care for every individual in every conceivable manner. The ethical question of who pays for that care is ...
Health economics is concerned with the efficient allocation of scarce (health care) resources •Maximising benefit (health) for resources available •Requires technical, economic and allocative efficiency!‘The market’ is important because: •Firms only able to remain if technicallyand economically efficient (otherwise others undercut price)
Describe nursing strategies to provide cost-effective care. Examine economic pressures impacting case management and the management of institutional resources. Describe the impact of evidence-based practice on health care economics and client care outcomes.
The principal concepts and theoretical foundations of health economics. The various market failures that can arise in healthcare. The role of governments in regulating, funding and providing healthcare. In the following session we will introduce the methods of economic evaluation and their use in decision making.
It discusses the best way to organize and compensate health care providers and describes the rapid growth in expenditure in most developed countries. It discusses the factors that have driven this growth, such as population aging, general economic growth, and the adoption and use of new medical technologies.
