Università Roma Tre

Detailed Program:

1. DEMAND
- What is health economics
- Course objectives
- Study of health economics
- Peculiarities of the healthcare services market
- Health demand (Chapter 1)
- Health: From need to demand
- Healthcare services demand
- Grossman model
- Healthcare services demand in a static context
- Agency relationship and demand (Chapter 2)
- Agency relationship between doctor and patient
- Induced demand; new theories

2. SUPPLY
- Supply and management of healthcare facilities (Chapter 3, only indicated parts):
- Supply and control tools
- The physician and services (part 1 and 2)
- The hospital as a business (part 3)
- Economic evaluation (Chapter 4, only indicated parts):
- Theoretical foundations of economic evaluation (part 1 & 2)
- Value of life (part 3, first part)
- Critical aspects of economic evaluation (part 4 & 9)
- Insurance markets (Chapter 5 (213-220, 228-237) and 6 (intro, pp.280-288)):
- Insurance for health risk
- Contracts between buyer and hospital
- Contracts between buyer and general practitioners
- Contracts for diagnostic services
- Information asymmetry and welfare
- Strategic supply management: organization and financing of healthcare (Chapter 9)
- Main methods of healthcare system financing
- Methods of supply organization
- Resource allocation criteria: possible alternatives
- Capitation formula

3. SOCIO-HEALTH INTEGRATION
- The National Health Service (NHS) in Italy and its evolution
- Recent national measures
- The difficult balance between integration and competition
- Comparison of healthcare systems (Chapter 10)

4. PHARMACEUTICAL ECONOMICS
- Pharmaceutical market
- Demand for innovative drugs
- Supply of innovative drugs
- Reimbursement and pricing mechanisms
- Drug value
- The European Union and the single market

Libro di testo: Levaggi, R. Capri, S. (2008) Economia Sanitaria, Franco Angeli, 4a edizione:
Capitoli 1, 2, 3 [par 3.1, 3.2, 3.3], 4 [par. 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.9], 5 [pp.213-220, 228-237], 6 [introduzione, pp.
280-288], 9, 10)