Topics
- Introduction: Money, Medicine and Health.
- Defining the term Economics.
- Describe the terms of Trade.
- Explain the term value.
- Describe the financing sources of health care
- Economic Principles as conceptual tools in Health care projects.
Topics
- Demand and Supply
- Understanding Demand Curve
- The Supply Curve
- Price sensitivity in health care
- Needs verses Demand
- Determinants of Health
- Efficiency of health services.
- Law of Demand.
- Elasticity of Demand.
- Demand for Medical care.
Topics
- Financing Physicians: Revenues.
- Physician Income.
- Physician Financing Expenses.
- The Medical Transactions.
- Licensure: Quality of Profits.
- Long term care
Topics
- Hospitals as a Source of Financing:
- From charitable Institution to Corporate Chain.
- Development of Modern Hospitals.
- Hospital Financing: Revenues.
- Hospitals Source of Finance.
- Hospital Financing: Expenses.
- Financial Management and Cost Shifting.
- How Do Hospitals compete.
- Organization of Hospital.
- Pharmaceuticals as a source of funding
Topics
- Health Insurance: Financing and managing medical Care Contracting:
- Methods of covering Risks.
- Insurance- Third Party.
- Risk Aversion.
- Moral Hazard.
- Tax Benefits.
- Contracting and Managing Health care contracts.
- Sources of Insurance.
Topics
- Financing of health care services expenses.
- What is financing.
- Value and Rate of Returns.
- Types of Risks.
- Ownership and Agency.
- Capital Financing Hospitals.
- Health Care for Profit.
Topics
- The Role of Government.
- The Role of Government in Financing Medical firms.
- Governmental Health Financing.
- Monopoly and Market Failure.
- Law and Order.
- Public Goods and Expenditure.
- Information.
Topics
- Future of health Care services sectors.
- The consumption Function.
- Adjusting to Change: Dynamics.
- Forecasting future Health Expenditure.
- Cost Control.
- Workforce Dynamics.
Topics
Modern trends in medical care services expenditures and revenues :
- Wide Difference among Nations.
- Micro versus Macro Allocation.
- Causality.
- Low income Countries
- Middle Income Countries.
- High Income Countries.
- International Trends in Health Care.