- Semester: III/IV
- Number of Credits: 4
- Course duration: 48 hours
- Pattern of Evaluation: Standard
Note: Students who opt for this course cannot opt for the Elective on
'Economics of Health and Education'
Preamble
This course provides the theoretical foundations and economic evaluation of Health Economics. The main focus is the understanding of health issues and policies in a developmental perspective relating specifically to the financing, delivery, and efficiency of health systems. The course also attempts to evaluate policies in the context of market versus State provision of health care.
Module 1: Economics of Health: (12 Hours)
Distinction between health and health care - Determinants of health - Health Accounts: sources of health expenditure; providers of health care and health expenditure by functions - Health care and its linkages with poverty, nutrition; morbidity and mortality- Demand and Supply of healthcare - Opportunity costs and problems of rationing- health care-Costs and efficiency-Types of equity. -Markets vs State.
Module 2: Financing Health Care and Delivery of Health Care: (12 Hours)
Economics of financing health care - Financing options- The rationale of government funding and regulation of health care- user charges and community financing schemes – issues of affordability and accessibility-Delivery of health care–Models of decentralization - private/public mix. Private and Public Health Insurance – Formal and informal sectors.
Module 3: Evaluation of Health Care: (12 Hours)
Conceptual Foundations for health utility measurement-Preference based measures of health-Contingent valuation in health- Discrete choice experiments in health economics- stages and Validity of discrete choice variables. Economic evaluation in health care-Cost-effectiveness analysis- Decision rules in economic evaluation.
Module 4: Health Approaches in India: (12 Hours)
Economic dimensions of health system in India-Health Indicators and outcomes - Nutritional concerns –Role of government in health care-Equity issues in health and health care systems - Social and gender inequalities - Social security measures-Health care in India- Health and population policies- Health sector reforms in India.
References
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Andrew M. Jones (ed)(2006): The Elgar Companion to Health Economics, Edward Elgar, USA.(Module 3 and 4)
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Glied S. and Smith P.C.(ed) (2011) : The Oxford Handbook of Health Economics, New York.(Module 3and 4)
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Henderson, J.W. (2001): Health Economics and Policy, South –Western, Thomson Learning. Chapters: 2 and 3 (Module 2)
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Mcpake, B., L. Kumanayake and C. Normand (2002): Health Economics: An International Perspective, Routledge. ( Module1)
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Musgrove, P. (2004): Health Economics in Development, The World bank.
Chapters: 2,3,4,9 and 10 (Modules 1 and 2)
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Panchamukhi, P. R. (2002): Economics of Health: An Introductory Review. ICSSR (Modules 1 and 2)
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World Health Organization(2011):A System of Health Accounts, WHO
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National Health Accounts-India: 2004-05,
http://www.whoindia.org/LinkFiles/Health_Finance_National_Health_Accounts_2004-05.pdf
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M.A. Credit Course 
