Health Economics

Code:

2GESS01

Acronym:

ES

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Economics

Instance: 2016/2017 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Agrupamento Científico de Economia
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Health Care Economics and Management

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
GESS	32	Bologna Syllabus since 2012	1	-	7,5	56	202,5

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The course provides students with a set of specific economic methods that enables them to study the specificities of the health system and to implement economic analyzes of health policies. The course also analyzes the economic behavior of health system institutions.

Learning outcomes and competences

Understanding of basic economic concepts. Ability to perform economic analyses of healthcare markets and institutions.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Mandatory literature

Barros, Pedro Luís Pita; Economia da saúde. ISBN: 978-972-40-5374-5

Complementary Bibliography

Paul Samuelson e William Nordhaus; Economia, 19ª edição, McGraw Hill, 2012. ISBN: 978-989-97172-3-7
Stano, Folland Goodman; The economics of health and health care. ISBN: 978-1-29202-051-8

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lectures with practical applications, in which the concepts and models of economic analysis are presented and examples and cases are discussed. Classes are conducted in order to maximize the exchange of ideas and sharing of experiences, benefiting from student’s professional diversity.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Teste	100,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	84,00
Frequência das aulas	42,00
Total:	126,00

Eligibility for exams

Evaluation may be distributed or by final exam. The distributed evaluation consists of two tests, with the first to be held during class hours, and the second on the day of the final exam.

Calculation formula of final grade

The final classification of the distributed evaluation corresponds to the simple average of the marks obtained in the two tests.