Christian Waibel: Katalogdaten im Herbstsemester 2019 |
| Name | Herr PD Dr. Christian Waibel |
| Lehrgebiet | Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
| Adresse | Makroökonomie, Gersbach ETH Zürich, ZUE D 11 Zürichbergstrasse 18 8092 Zürich SWITZERLAND |
| Telefon | +41 44 632 55 05 |
| cwaibel@ethz.ch | |
| URL | https://sites.google.com/site/christianwaibel/ |
| Departement | Management, Technologie und Ökonomie |
| Beziehung | Privatdozent |
| Nummer | Titel | ECTS | Umfang | Dozierende | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 363-1027-00L | Introduction to Health Economics and Policy | 2 KP | 1V | C. Waibel | |
| Kurzbeschreibung | Health expenditures constitute about 10% of GDP in OECD countries. Extensive government intervention is a typical feature in health markets. Risk factors to health have been changing with growing importance of lifestyle factors such as smoking, obesity and lack of physical activity. This course gives an introduction to the economic concepts and empirical findings in health economics. | ||||
| Lernziel | Introduce students without prior economics background to the main concepts of health economics and policy to enhance students understanding of how health care institutions and markets function. | ||||
| Inhalt | The course gives an introduction to the economic concepts and empirical findings in health economics to enhance students understanding of how health care institutions and markets function. Motivated by the fact that health care markets are designed different across countries, this course looks at the challenges in regulating health care markets. First, the three important decisions made by individuals will be analyzed: What determines the health behaviors, like the intensity of preventive measures like sport, that an individual undertakes? What types and amount of personal health care services does an individual demand? How much health insurance coverage will be purchased? In a second part, the supply side of health care markets will be discussed. What are the financial incentives of physicians and how do these influence physicians’ treatment choices? What does it mean and imply that a physician is an agent for a patient? The choices made by societies about how health care services are financed and about the types of organizations that supply health care will be addressed in a third part. One important choice is whether a country will rely on public financing of personal health care services or encourage private health insurance markets. How could and should a public health insurance system be designed? What health care services should be included or excluded from a public system? The advantages and disadvantages of the alternatives will be discussed to provide a framework for analyzing specific types of health care systems. | ||||
| Literatur | Jay Bhattacharya, Timothy Hyde, Peter Tu, "Health Economics", Palgrave Macmillan. Frank A. Sloan and Chee-Ruey Hsieh, "Health Economics", MIT Press. | ||||