Lecture Notes

ECON 40565 Health Economics

Fall 2007

· What is health economics? [Download in PPT handout mode], August 28

· The production of health from a historical perspective [Download], August 30

· Measuring health [Download], September 4

· Modern correlates of health [Download], September 4 and 6

· External costs of poor health. Download either the notes in [Handout] mode or the original [PPT] version and print out in handout mode yourself, September 11

· Obesity, [Download] September 18

· AIDS [Download] September 20

· Expected utility [Download] September 25 and 27

· Asymmetric information/Adverse selection. Download either the notes in [Handout] mode or the original [PPT] version. October 2 and 4

· Moral Hazard [Download], Tuesday October 9 and Thursday October 18

· Review, utility maximization, income and substitution effects, Thursday, Nov 1. Download in either [Handout] or original [PPT] format

· Employer provided health insurance, Tuesday, November 6. Download in either [Handout] or original [PPT] format

· The economics of employer mandates, November 13 and 15, [Handout] and original [PPT]

· An introduction to Medicare/Medicaid, November 15 [Handouts]

· Medicaid expansions, November 27 [Handouts]

· Topics in Medicare, November 27-29 [Handouts]

· Managed Care, December 4 [Handouts]

· Technology and health care prices, December 6 [Handouts]