Economics: Advanced Health Economics

You will gain an advanced overview of health economics with a focus on policy-relevant questions such as:

• Why are healthcare expenditures increasing in society?
• How does health in early life affect future opportunities?
• Is new medical technology worth the cost?
• What health effects arise from pandemics?
• What are the health impacts of working conditions?

We will discuss inequalities in health and access to care, as well as the relationship between health and economic development.

The course is based on current scientific articles and aims to develop your ability to critically evaluate and independently analyse research on health. Health economic issues are addressed from a global perspective, so your understanding will not be limited to Swedish conditions. You will be trained to apply economic tools to health and healthcare questions, with particular emphasis on empirical methods. The course is especially suitable for those who wish to work in advanced analysis within the healthcare sector, policy evaluation or research.

Course literature

The course literature listed may be updated up to eight weeks before the course begins.

The course combines lectures, student seminars and “help desks”. The lectures provide a theoretical and empirical foundation in selected topics. In the seminars, we present and discuss current scientific articles. The “help desks” are individual meetings with the teaching staff, where you have the opportunity to develop your own research in health economics within the framework of an academic essay. Assessment consists of two mid-term examinations, seminar contributions and the academic essay.

Prerequisites

Students who have been admitted to the Master Programme in Economics and have taken the courses NEKN21 "Advanced Microeconomic Analysis" and NEKN33 "Applied Microeconometrics" are eligible to take this course. For other students, at least 90 ECTS-credits in economics are required. These must include the courses NEKN21 "Advanced Microeconomic Analysis" and NEKN33 "Applied Microeconometrics" or equivalent courses.

Selection criteria

Seats are allocated according to: ECTS (HPAV): 100 %.

Tuition fees for non-EU/EEA citizens

Citizens of countries outside:

• The European Union (EU)
• The European Economic Area (EEA) and
• Switzerland

are required to pay tuition fees. You pay an instalment of the tuition fee in advance of each
semester.

Tuition fees, payments and exemptions

Full programme/course tuition fee: SEK 18,750
First payment: SEK 18,750

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Note that you may also need to pay an application fee, or provide proof of exemption.

Application fee

No tuition fees for citizens of the EU, EEA and Switzerland

There are no tuition fees for citizens of the European Union (EU), the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland.