While health itself cannot be traded on any market, products and services that produce health are traded on a number of different markets. Competition between providers, and diffferent provider payment methods (e.g. fee-for-service, capitation, pay-for-performance) create financial incentives that influence provider behaviour. Pre-payment systems are common (including tax, public and private health insurance), meaning that health care is rarely fully paid for by the consumer at the point of use. Severe market imperfections, such as information asymmetries between patients, providers and payers, mean that simplified economic models are of little to no use in analysing health financing and health care markets.
This course equips students to describe and discuss how the discipline of economics analyses the production of health, and to analyse the financing and production of health care in relation to the policy objectives of efficiency and equity. A limited amount of mathematical notation is used to introduce theoretical models. Empirical examples are mainly drawn from Sweden and from low- and middle-income countries.
The information below is only for exchange students
Starts
2 October 2024
Ends
31 October 2024
Study location
Umeå
Language
English
Type of studies
Daytime,
100%
Required Knowledge
For non-programme students applying as single-course students, the requirements are 120 ECTS, of which a minimum of 30 ECTS are within one of the following: health and healthcare, environmental health or social sciences. English proficiency equivalent to English B/6 from Swedish Upper secondary education.
Selection
Students applying for courses within a double degree exchange agreement, within the department's own agreements will be given first priority. Then will - in turn - candidates within the department's own agreements, faculty agreements, central exchange agreements and other departmental agreements be selected.
Application code
UMU-A3000
Application
This application round is only intended for nominated exchange students. Information about deadlines can be found in the e-mail instruction that nominated students receive.
The application period is closed.
