Health Economics and Policy

Code:

2ECON08

Acronym:

EPS

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Economics

Instance: 2020/2021 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Economics

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
ME	10	Bologna Syllabus	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 the health system institutions.

Learning outcomes and competences

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Introduction to health economics.
2. Problems of imperfect information and uncertainty
3. Health systems and policies.
4. Health systems financing.
5. Production and demand for health and healthcare.
6. Health institutions management
7. Economic evaluation of health technologies.

Mandatory literature

Pedro Luís Pita Barros; Economia da saúde. ISBN: 978-972-40-7571-6

Complementary Bibliography

Sherman Folland; The^economics of health and health care. ISBN: 978-1-138-20805-6
Barbara McPake, Charles Normand e Samantha Smith; Health Economics: An international perspective, 3rd ed., Routledge, 2013. ISBN: 978-0-415-68088
Rexford Santerre, Stephen Neun; Health Economics: Theory, Insights and Industry Studies, 6th ed., Cengage Learning, 2012. ISBN: 978-1111822729

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.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Teste	70,00
Trabalho escrito	30,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	146,50
Frequência das aulas	56,00
Total:	202,50

Eligibility for exams

All students may take the final exam, even if they have taken the first test.

Calculation formula of final grade

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

Final exam: classification of the final exam.

Classification improvement

Final exam.