Learning Outcomes
After the course is completed students will be able to demonstrate understanding of:
- how resource allocation and health policy in society interact;
- how society can use economic tools in order to achieve health policy objectives;
- the concept of opportunity cost and how to calculate it;
- the basis for consumer demand of health care and other goods and services;
- what influences demand and supply in a market and understand how these concepts can be used to study the health care sector;
- the concepts of price and cost elasticity.
- how resource allocation and health policy in society interact;
- how society can use economic tools in order to achieve health policy objectives;
- the concept of opportunity cost and how to calculate it;
- the basis for consumer demand of health care and other goods and services;
- what influences demand and supply in a market and understand how these concepts can be used to study the health care sector;
- the concepts of price and cost elasticity.
Course Content
The course starts with a discussion about the concepts of alternative cost, marginal cost and cost effectiveness using examples from the health care sector. During the course practical examples will be used to show how different types of health care interventions can be evaluated. The purpose of the course is to give students knowledge about how the resource allocation and health policy in society interact.
Assessment
The assessment for this course consists of assignments and a written exam. The assignments are optional, but the points collected will be added to the points for the written exam.
Forms of Study
Forms of study are distance lectures and assignments.
Grades
The Swedish grades U–VG.
Prerequisites
- General entry requirements
Other Information
The points collected in the assignments are only valid for one year.
There is a maximum of five opportunities to take the exam.
There is a maximum of five opportunities to take the exam.