Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam (EUR) • Health Economics, Policy and Law

COMPULSORY LITERATURE SUMMARY - 2018/2019 Lecturer: Rieger Health and nutrition are important inputs to individual well-being and economic development. Individual and population health in turn are driven by individual income and public resources allocated to the health sector. This two-way relationship renders the link between health and economic development complex and the evaluation of the economic impacts of health interventions a challenging endeavour. The course is designed to illustrate ...

[[Topic 2 Lectures]] STATA EXERCISES (with graphs and Excel tables) • interpret measures of inequities in health & health care use • interpret measures of inequities in financial protection • explain the main drivers of inequities in health and health care using decomposition methods • provide evidence on the impact of health financing interventions using the measures of inequities in health & health care and financial protection, and decomposition techniques

Literature Summaries per meeting. All the articles of compulsory ("for examination") literature have been summarised. .

Global health economics notes per lecture (1-9). [[Topic 1 Lectures]] • understand the complexities of extending coverage of health care in LMICs • understand the limitations of tax financed health care in LMICs • understand difficulties in extending health coverage through voluntary health insurance • discuss innovative financing schemes of health care • outline the relations between provider payment mechanisms and universal health coverage • identify the scope for demand si...

An extensive summary of the lectures, the working groups, the case law, articles and the book of international health law.

Summary of all the compulsory literature and lectures.