Brief Course Description
1. Course Title:
Health Economics
2. Language of Instruction:
Vietnamese
3. Course Code:
HEA601030
4. Credits:
3
5. Course Objectives:
This course provides students with theoretical and empirical foundations for analyzing health and healthcare systems from an economic perspective. It examines the causes of market failures in healthcare, the economics of equity and efficiency, and the determinants of health demand and supply based on the Grossman model. Students will explore health valuation, insurance markets, and the behavior of providers such as doctors, hospitals, and pharmaceutical firms. The course also addresses health financing mechanisms and contemporary challenges in healthcare systems, equipping students to critically assess health policies using economic reasoning and quantitative methods.
6. Brief Description of Course Content:
Health economics course covers a wide range of health and healthcare economics topics. This course provides the economic concepts related to health behavior, the economic models and essential economics instruments for analyses
- efficient resource allocation for health and healthcare systems,
- efficiency of the health care market.
This course consists of 9 lectures. Learners need to read the learning materials before attending the lecture.
In addition, learners will have a practical part in the manner of a case study. There are two case studies presented in the course. In each case study, learners will be introduced to the research problem and provided with data. Learners will practice how to apply theories to solve research problems. Finally, each learner have to submit a research report for two case studies which is to evaluate the course result.