Health Economics - Health Science Research

What it is about

You will get a compact overview of the organization and financing of health systems and learn fundamental economic concepts and methods of health economics. By the end you will be able to analyze incentive structures and regulations in the health sector as well as assess the role of drug approval and financing.

What you will be able to do

• Describe the structures and organizational forms of international health systems
• Understand and explain financing systems in health care
• Understand simple microeconomic models and perform calculations
• Capture health insurance systems and calculate economic examples
• Analyze and reflect on incentive effects in health care
• Describe and assess the pharmaceutical sector and regulatory instruments
• Critically analyze quality measures in health care
• Apply theories, principles and methods to analyze interdependencies in health care and stakeholder constellations

What the module consists of

• Lectureconveys fundamentals, organized as a lecture with interactive elements
• Exercisedeepens understanding through integrated tasks and calculations
• Practical lectureuses practical examples for illustration
• Computer taskenables computer-assisted processing of economic tasks

Teaching method

• Lecture with interactive elementspromotes understanding through exchange and integrated exercises
• Practical lecturesillustrates practical applications
• Computational taskstrains calculation skills and application of economic models
• Computer roomenables practice at the PC and data-based tasks