Prof Alistair Mcguire COW 2.02

This course is compulsory on the MSc in International Health Policy (Health Economics). This course is available on the MSc in Health Policy, Planning and Financing and MSc in International Health Policy. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.

Students must have completed Health Economics (HP420).

Alternative introductory economics courses are acceptable.

The course will cover: international comparisons of health care expenditure, individual health-seeking behaviour, health care insurance, contract theory applied to the health care sector (including principal-agent theory and incentive payment mechanisms), and equity in health care.

Students may find material from the half unit HP426 Applied Health Econometrics, to be beneficial to studying this course. See the HP426 course guide for further detail. 

This course will be delivered through a combination of lectures and seminars totalling a minimum 25 hours during Lent Term.  Seminars will take place in small groups with students presenting assigned topics each week.

There will be a departmental reading week in week 6 of term.

Students will give a presentation in seminars and receive feedback from seminar leads

Culyer, A.J., and Newhouse, J.P., (eds.), 2001, Handbook of Health Economics Volumes 1A &1B, (North-Holland, Amsterdam); Zweifel, P. and Breyer, F., 1997, Health Economics, (OUP, Oxford).

Exam (100%, duration: 2 hours) in the summer exam period.