Economics 318: Health Economics
Instructor: Chris Auld
Moved to Coursespaces.
As of 2015 current content for this course will be available on Coursespaces. This page contains an archive of exams and slides from previous years.
Course description.
The course covers elementary concepts and selected topics in modern health economics.
Topics include: health as a capital good, the production of health using health care
and other inputs, private and social determinants of health, role of government in the
provision of health care, health insurance, physician behavior, comparative health care
systems, economic epidemiology, and the economics of tobacco, alcohol, and obesity.
Archived stuff.
Exams.
2014 examinations.
Final exam.
Final exam key.
First midterm.
Key for first midterm.
Second midterm.
Key for second midterm.
Spring 2013.
First midterm.
Key for first midterm.
Key for second midterm.
Final exam.
Spring 2012
(Aborted) first midterm.
First midterm.
Second midterm.
Final exam.
Spring 2011
Practice questions for first midterm examination.
First midterm examination.
Answer key for first midterm.
Second midterm.
Final examination.
Slides.
Note: the slides do not cover all of the material discussed in the associated lectures.
Chapter 1: Introduction to health economics.
Chapter 4: Valuing life and health for program evaluation.
2013/2014
Intro to health economics.
Individual-level demand for and production of health.
Determinants of population health.
Income and health part I: Correlation and causation.
Income and health part II: Personal income, relative income, and health.
Education and health.
Health care as an economic commodity.
Physician agency.
Insurance.
Methods of economic evaluation.
Health care systems.
Economics of tobacco and other addictive goods.
2011/2012
Chapter 5: Production of health.
Income and health .
Chapter 7: Demand for health capital.
Chapter 8: Insurance.
Chapter 9: Consumer choice and demand.
Chapter 10: Asymmetric information and agency.
Chapter 15: The physician's practice.
Chapters 18 and 19: Efficiency and intervention.
Chapters 22: Comparative Health Care Systems.
Chapters 24: Smoking.
Economics of obesity.
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