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06281 - Health care economics

Academic Year 2019/2020

                
                        Docente:
                        Daniele Fabbri
                    
                        Credits:
                        5
                    
                        SSD:
                        SECS-P/03
                    
                        Language:
                        Italian
                    
                        Teaching Mode:
                        Traditional lectures
                        
                            Campus:
                            Bologna
                        
                            Corso:
                            Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
                            Economics and Economic Policy (cod. 8420)

                            Teaching resources on Virtuale

Learning outcomes

In the first part of the course we study typical resource allocation problems in the healthcare sector. In the second part we examine key topics in Italian NHS reform.

Teaching practice will combine theory and institutional analysis with updated empirical evidence from the literature and case-studies developed by the teacher. Students should gain appropriate skills which will allow them to develop personal case-studies-

Course contents

PART I: Fundamentals of Health Economics

1-Health capital and the demand for health and healthcare
2-Individuals' heterogeneity and healthcare services' complexity: Physician-patient relationship
3-Health insurance and moral hazard
4-Health insurance and adverse selection
5-Regulation ofheathcare systems
PART II: Italian healthcare system
6-The italian NHS
7-Governance and performance in the NHS
8-Federalism and healthcare

Readings/Bibliography

Notes on each lecture will be provided by the teacher plus additional reading material.

Textbook in English

Bhattacharya, Hyde, Tu, 2014, Health Economics, Palgrave, McMillan.

Sloan, Hsieh, 2012, Health Economics, MIT press.

Folland, Goodman, Stano, 2007, The economics of health and health care, 5Â° edizione, Prentice Hall.

Assessment methods

Examination comes in two parts:

A) presentation\essay of an assigned paper

B) written exam (60 minuti)

The final grade weights A and B according to 6 points and 24 points respectively.

Teaching tools

We will make use of the Unibo e-learningplatform for remote downloading of teaching materials and uploading of assigned presentations.

The access to platform will be restricted. Details on how to access the remote learning platform will be provided at the beginning of the course.

Links to further information

https://sites.google.com/site/d66fabbri/

Office hours

See the website of Daniele Fabbri