Health Economics

Code:

2GESS01

Acronym:

ES

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Economics

Instance: 2024/2025 - 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	28	Bologna Syllabus since 2012	1	-	7,5	56	202,5
MFPE	3	Study plan	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

Students should be able to use and interpret correctly the fundamental health economics principles.
Students should be able to perform economic analyses of healthcare markets and institutions.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Mandatory literature

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

Complementary Bibliography

N. Gregory Mankiw; Microeconomics. ISBN: 978-1-4080-8198-3

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.

keywords

Social sciences > Economics

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without 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	146,50
Frequência das aulas	42,00
Trabalho de investigação	14,00
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: The final classification of the distributed evaluation corresponds to the simple average of the marks obtained in two tests.
OR
Classification of the final exam.

Classification improvement

Only by exam.