Course Information


Course Information
Course Title Code Semester L+U Hour Credits ECTS
HEALTH ECONOMICS 66003011 3 + 0 3.0 8.0

Prerequisites None

Language of Instruction Turkish
Course Level Graduate Degree
Course Type Compulsory
Mode of delivery Oral presentation, question and answer, discussion
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Goals This course is design to study the application of economic methods to the health field in order to improve the health status and the health system overall.
Course Content The definition of health economics, basic concepts, health expenditure, enflation and health expenditures, health financing policies, economic evaluation methods, sustainable development and health, economic growth and health, planning and health, demand supply market and health, market failure in health. pharmaeconomics.
Learning Outcomes 1) Students explain the definition, importance and reasons of development of health economics.
2) Students explain the supply of and demand for health care services an their determinants,
3) Students explain the market failure in health care services
4) Students explain health expenditures and financing health care; discuss the relationship among the economic growth, development and health sector
5) Students explain the economic evaluation techniques
6) Student discuss the economic value of pharmaceuticals
7) Students know the importance of the health planning in terms of economic and social planning.
8) Students apply economic evaluation tecniques in health sector

Weekly Topics (Content)
Week Topics Teaching and Learning Methods and Techniques Study Materials
1. Week Historical development of health economics Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming; Colloquium
Brain Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
2. Week Value for money in health care services Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming; Colloquium
Brain Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
3. Week Social determinants of health Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming; Colloquium
Brain Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
4. Week Determinants of health care services supply and demand Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming; Colloquium
Brain Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
5. Week Supply of health care services Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming; Colloquium
Brain Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
6. Week Demand for health care services Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming; Colloquium
Brain Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
7. Week Market failure and health care services Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming; Colloquium
Brain Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
8. Week Health expenditures Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming; Colloquium
Brain Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
9. Week Financing health care Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming; Colloquium
Brain Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
10. Week Economic evaluation methods Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming; Colloquium
Brain Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
11. Week Economic growth, development and health sector Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming; Colloquium
Brain Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
12. Week Health planning Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming; Colloquium
Brain Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
13. Week Pharmaceutical economics Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming; Colloquium
Brain Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
14. Week Health tecnology assesment Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming; Colloquium
Brain Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)

Sources Used in This Course
Recommended Sources
1.Culyer, A.J. ve J.P.Newhouse (2007). Handbook of Health Economics Volume 1A and 1B. Great Britain: Elsevier North-Holland.
10. Dağdemir, Ö. (2009). Sağlık ve Ekonomik Büyüme: 1960-2005 Döneminde Gelişmekte Olan Ülkelerde Sağlık ve Ekonomik Büyüme Arasındaki Karşılıklı İlişkinin Analizi, Ankara Üniversitesi SBF Dergisi, 64 (2), 75-96.
2. Drummond M. F. et al., ( 1987 ), Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes, Oxford Univesity Press, Oxford.
3. T.C. Sağlık Bakanlığı, Refik Saydam Hıfzıssıhha Merkezi Başkanlığı, Hıfzıssıhha Mektebi Müdürlüğü (2004). “Türkiye Hastalık Yükü Çalışması” Ankara.
4.Yenimahalleli –Yaşar, G. (2007). Sağlığın Finansmanı ve Türkiye İçin Sağlık Finansman Modeli Önerisi, Ankara Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, Yayımlanmamış Doktora Tezi, Ankara.
5.Feldstein P. J. (1993) Health Care Economics, Delmar Publishers Inc.
6.Jacobs P. (1997) The Economics of Health and Medical Care, An Aspen Publication, Fourth Edition.
7. Grossmann, M. (1972). On the concept of health capital and the demand for health,Journal of Political Economy, 82, 223-255.
8. Breyer, F. (1987). The specification of a hospital cost function: a comment on the recent literature,Journal of Health Economics, 6, 147-157.
9. Van Mosseveld, C. (2005). Pharmaceutical expenditure compared across countries,Can J Clin Pharmacol, 12 (3), 269-275.

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ECTS credits and course workload
Event Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Course Duration (Total weeks*Hours per week) 14 3
Work Hour outside Classroom (Preparation, strengthening) 14 4
Homework 1 50
Presentation (Including Preparation Time) 1 30
Final Exam 1 1
Time to prepare for Final Exam 3 20
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