Code: | 1OP06 | Acronym: | ES |
Keywords | |
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Classification | Keyword |
OFICIAL | Economics |
Active? | Yes |
Responsible unit: | Agrupamento Científico de Economia |
Institution Responsible: | Faculty of Economics |
Acronym | No. of Students | Study Plan | Curricular Years | Credits UCN | Credits ECTS | Contact hours | Total Time |
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LECO | 19 | Bologna Syllabus since 2012 | 3 | - | 3 | 42 | 81 |
LGES | 8 | Bologna Syllabus since 2012 | 3 | - | 3 | 42 | 81 |
The course provides students with a set of specific economic methods that enables them to understand the health system in general, and, in particular, the operation of health care providers. The course also provides an introduction to management models of healthcare providers.
The student will be able to:
1. Identify the determinants of the supply and the demand for healthcare;
2. Identify different types of state intervention in health care systems;
3. Compare other health systems with the portuguese system;
4. Use economic concepts and models to predict the behaviour of several healthcare actors;
5. to compare different payment modalities to providers and their problems;
6. Identify different methods of economic evaluation in health care and interpret the results of an economic evaluation study
1. Introduction to health economics
2. Health systems financing
3. Health production and demand for health and healthcare
4. Management of healthcare providers
5. Pharmaceutical industry
6. Health Technology Evaluation
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.
Designation | Weight (%) |
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Teste | 70,00 |
Trabalho escrito | 30,00 |
Total: | 100,00 |
Designation | Time (hours) |
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Estudo autónomo | 39,00 |
Frequência das aulas | 42,00 |
Total: | 81,00 |
Evaluation may be distributed or by final exam. The distributed evaluation consists of a group work and two tests, with the first to be held during class hours, and the second on the day of the final exam.
OR final exam
The final classification of the distributed evaluation corresponds to the average of the marks obtained in the two tests (70%) and the group work (30%).