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13 Ιαν 2017 · Key aspects of health economics include cost accounting, cost-benefit analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, and analyzing the effects of factors like technology, population changes, and policies on health care systems.
HEALTH CARE ECONOMICS INTRODUCTION. Learning Objectives. • Practice and advocate for cost-effective care. • Summarize funding and reimbursement sources for patient-care services. • Explore how political, social, and demographic trends have affected the patient population and delivery of health care. • Analyze the link between economics and quality.
“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 ...
Lecture 2: Key concepts in health economics This lecture should enable you to:!Describe the concepts of efficiency, opportunity cost and marginal analysis!Understand why these concepts are important in health economics!Appreciate how they underpin ‘the market’(as a prelude to lectures 3, 4 and 5)
of health economics will enable manag-ers and healthcare professionals to use the limited resources that are available to them. It is believed that health care is an economic activity that is based on basic economic principles (Bonca & Tajnikar 2008).
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.
