This is a set of slides I created for my MSMG5450H class at Trent University. The objective of these slides was to give a general overview of the models and theories used in health economics with the first half focusing on what I considered the "core" theoretical models in health economics and the second half discussing tools employed by those in health technology assessment (HTA) or pharmacoeconomics. Care was taken to teach the material without any calculus (though there is some skimming of results in lecture #6).
There may be some typos in this current set of slides . Hopefully this will be corrected in future iterations.
| Date | Topic |
|---|---|
| Week #1 | Lecture #1: Introduction; Facts about Health Expenditures; Social Determinants of Health |
| Week #2 | Lecture #2: Supply and Demand, Elasticity, Market for Insurance |
| Week #3 | Lecture #3: The Grossman Model: Uses and Critiques |
| Week #4 | Lecture #4: The Rational Addiction Model: Uses and Critiques |
| Week #5 | Lecture #5: Physician Behaviour, Supplier Induced Demand, Target Income Hypothesis |
| Week #6 | MIDTERM |
| READING WEEK | |
| Week #7 | Lecture #6: How doctors get paid: the political economy of healthcare provision |
| Week #8 | Lecture #7: An Introduction to Health Technology Assessment, Model Structures in Economic Evaluation |
| Week #9 | Lecture #8: Measuring Costs, Measuring Effects, Discounting, "Check Lists" |
| Week #10 | Lecture #9: DSA, PSA, Cost Effectiveness Acceptability Curve |
| Week #11 | Lecture #10: Value of Information Analysis |
| Week #12 | Lecture #11: Funding Prioritization, How to Use League Tables, Budget Impact Analysis |