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    Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
    EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

    Courses and Certificate Fees

    Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
    INR 1000yesIIT Roorkee

    The Syllabus

    Introduction
    • Health Economics: Overview, Structure and Beneficiaries
    • Concepts and Terminologies in Health Economics
    • Health as an Economic Good
    • Economics of Health vs Economics of Healthcare
    • Arrow's Perspective on Healthcare

    Demand in Healthcare
    • Utility and Health
    • Demand for Health care
    • Measuring price sensitivity with elasticities
    • The Grossman Model  
    • The Grossman Model and Health Disparities

    Supply in Health care
    • Physicians as Health Providers of Health
    • Supply Induced Demand
    • Hospitals as Health Providers of Health
    • Production and Cost of Healthcare
    • Profit maximization models in health care

    Equity and Health
    • Equity in Healthcare
    • Equity and Redistribution: Theory
    • Equity in Health Financing
    • Equity in Distribution
    • Practicals to measure equity

    Financing and Insurance in Health Care
    • Financing Health care 
    • Uncertainty and Risk - Health Insurance
    • Patient Payments; Reimbursements
    • Information Economics in Health: Moral Hazard
    • Information Economics in Health: Adverse Selection

    Behavioral Health Economics
    • Introduction to Behavioral Economics
    • Expected Utility Theory
    • Prospect Theory
    • Nudge Theory
    • Time Inconsistency and Health: Discounting

    Economics of Health Systems
    • Health Systems  
    • Tax and Social Health Insurance mechanism-I  
    • Tax and Social Health Insurance mechanism-II  
    • Private financing mechanisms  
    • Health systems around the world

    Theory and Principles of Economic Evaluation
    • Theoretical foundations of economic evaluation  
    • Principles of Economic Evaluation: Introduction  
    •  Principles of Economic Evaluation: Cost-Benefit Analysis  
    • Principles of Economic Evaluation: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis  
    • Principles of Economic Evaluation: Cost-Utility Analysis  

    Economic Evaluation in Application to Health and Health Care
    • Monetary Valuation of Health  
    • Non-monetary Valuation of Health: QALY  
    • Non-monetary Valuation of Health: DALY & HLYE  
    • Costing, Discounting & Evaluation under Uncertainty  
    • Markov modeling and Sensitivity analysis in Health care  

    Health Efficiency
    • Concepts of productivity and efficiency  
    • Data Envelopment Analysis: Introduction  
    • Data Envelopment Analysis: CCR Model  
    • Data Envelopment Analysis: BCC Model  
    • Introduction to DEAP Software  
    • Application of DEA in Healthcare using DEAP  

    Health databases and an introduction to data handling packages
    • Micro and Macro Data in Health: Sources and Indicators - I  
    • Micro and Macro Data in Health: Sources and Indicators - II  
    • Econometric Modeling in Health  
    • Health data handling packages – Open Source  
    • Health data handling packages - Licensed  

    Public Health and Policies
    • Introduction to Public Health 
    • Healthcare provisioning and responsiveness  
    • Socio-economic disparities in Health- global perspective  
    • Indian Health System: organization and governance  
    • Indian Health Status: reforms, status, and future challenges

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