Course description
The course discusses issues of demand for health and healthcare services formation. The students will discuss how people’s behaviour influences their health and their readiness/willingness to keep it in good shape. The students will also learn how socio-economic profile influences person’s lifetime health and if it’s true that more educated people lead healthier lifestyle. The students will consider communication of people with healthcare system as a separate economic industry (the issue of patient-oriented behaviour of doctors we’ll leave to appropriate branches of science). The students will learn to model «health production» and demand for health (and, accordingly, for healthcare services). The students will master the use of available sources of information to measure health status and to identify socio-economic factors that influence health status. As a result of this course the students will be informed about inequality in health and healthcare access and about ways to decrease this inequality.
Literature
- Applied Health Economics / A. M. Jones et al, 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2013.
- The Economics of Health and Health Care. S. Folland, A. C. Goodman, M. Stano, 6th ed., International ed. Boston; New York; San Francisco: Pearson Education, Inc.; Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2010.