Economics of health care (HPI4001)

What is the definition of "Economics"?

What is the definition of "Health Economics"?

What is the definition of "Health Care Economics"?

What is the definition of "Scarcity"?

What is the definition of "Allocation"?

What is the definition of "Opportunity Cost"?

What is the definition of "Allocative Efficiency" (i.e. Pareto-efficiency)?

What is the definition of a "Market Failure"?

What is the definition of a "Perfect Competition"?

Why is "Health Economics" different from traditional Economics?

Why does health care require government interventions?

What does the "Williams' Diagram" represent?

What are the challenges of the health care system, according to Pedersen et al. (2012)?

What is the future of Health Economics with regards to successfully solving the upcoming challenges?

What are the characteristics and assumptions of "Experimental Economics"?

What are the characteristics and assumptions of "Behavioral Economics"?

Why is innovation important from an economic point of view (De Pouvourville, 2001)?

What is innovation from the perspective of economists, according to Swann (2009)?

What is the definition of an "Invention", according to Swann (2009)?

What is the definition of an "Innovation", according to Swann (2009) ?

What are the types of innovations?

What are the tree important theories on "Economic Growth"?

What assumptions does the "Classical Growth Theory" make?

What assumptions does the "Neo-Classical Growth Theory" make?

What does the "Neo-Classical Growth Theory" assume about technology?

What is the definition of an "Externality"?

What assumptions does the "New Growth Theory" make?

How can the growth theories be summarized, using mathmatical equations/formulas?

What is the definition of "Innovation Economics"?

What are the five most important economic theories on innovation, according to Antonelli (2009)?

What are the central assumptions behind the "Classical Economic Approach", according to Smith and Marx?

How can the "Classical Economic Approach" be represented as a mathmatical formula/equation?

What are the central assumptions behind the "Schumpeterian Economic Approach", according to Schumpeter?

How can the "Schumpeterian Economic Approach" be represented as a mathmatical formula/equation?

What are the central assumptions behind the "Arrovian Economic Approach", according to Arrow (1921)?

How can the "Arrovian Economic Approach" be represented as a mathmatical formula/equation?

What are the central assumptions behind the "Evolutionary Economic Approach", according to Nelson and Winter?

How can the "Evolutionary Economic Approach" be represented as a mathmatical formula/equation?

What are the central assumptions behind the "Institutional Economic Approach", according to Dorward (2000)?

How can the "Institutional Economic Approach" be represented as a mathmatical formula/equation?

What are the two perspectives that describe how societies organize resources in order to create, sustain and/or diffuse innovations and attain an expansion in their wealth?

What are the incentives/drivers for each economic approach?

What are the roles of the pharmaceutical industry?

What are the characteristics of the pharmaceutical market?

What are some examples of government interventions with regards to the pharmaceutical market?

What are the type of drugs available within the pharmaceutical market?

What is the definition of an "Ethical Drug"?

What is the definition of an "OTC-Drug"?

What is the definition of a "Brand Drug"?

What is the definition of a "Generic Drug"?

What is the definition of a "Me-too Drug"?

What is the definition of an "Orphan Drug"?

What are the stages of drug development?

What are the "four hurdles" to market access?

What are the limitations of economic evaluations?

What is the definition of a "Pharmacoeconomic Evaluation"?

What are the three types of coverage decisions?

What are the challenges with regards to the drug development process?

What does the approach of "Coverage with Evidence Development" entail?

What does the approach of "Innovative Risk-Sharing Agreements" entail?

What is the definition of an "Organization", according to Hall (1994)?

What is the definition of an "Organization", according to Daft et al. (2014)?

What is the definition of "Vertical Integration", according to Laugesen and France (2014)?

What are some examples of "backwards Vertical Integration"?

What are some examples of "forward Vertical Integration"?

Why do companies choose to integrate vertically, according to Besanko et al. (2007)?

What is the definition of "Horizontal Integration", according to Laugesen and France (2014)?

What are some examples of "Horizontal Integration"?

Why do companies choose to integrate horizontally, according to Postema & Roos (2015)?

What is the definition of a "Transaction Cost"?

Where do "Transaction Costs" stem from, according to Coase & Williamson?

When does an "Economy of Scale" apply to a firm?

What are some of the factors that can play a role in the "Economies of Scale"?

When does an "Economy of Scope" apply to a firm?

What is the aim of an "Health Technology Assessment"?

What is the aim of an "Economic evaluation"?

What is the importance of health economic evaluations?

What is the definition of an "Economic Evaluation"?

What factors determine whether to use a "Partial Economic Evaluation" vs a "Full Economic Evaluation"?

What are the four types of full economic evaluations?

What is the definition of a "QALY"?

What is the purpose with regards to the use of a QALY as a unit of measurement?

What is the definition of a "Cost-illness study"?

What is the definition of an "ICER"? What does is represent?

What other factors need to be considered alongside "Cost-Effectiveness"?

What are the advantages of a "Trial-Based Economic Evaluation"?

What are the disadvantages of a "Trial-Based Economic Evaluation"?

What are the advantages of a "Model-Based Economic Evaluation"?

What are the disadvantages of a "Model-Based Economic Evaluation"?

What is the "Markov Model"?

What are the steps of the Markov model?

What factors determine the uncertainty of an economic evaluation?

How can this be addressed?

What is the definition of "Implementation"?

What factors influence the implementation process of a innovation?

What are barriers that hinder the implementation of a new innovation?

What are the top 5 most frequently cited "Barriers and Facilitators"?

Which four important methods can be used to bridge the gap between research and policy making?

Which other methods can also be used to bridge the gap between research and policy making?

What is the definition of "Generalizability", according to Knies et al. (2008)?

What is the definition of "Transferability", according to Knies et al. (2008)?

What are the five limiting factors of transferability, according to Goeree (2007)?

What are the steps with regards to diagnosing transferability?

When and how can the transferability be increased?

How can the difference in countries with regards to transferability of quality of life be explained, according to Goeree (2007)

How can the EQ-5D tool be used to measure the utility of a patient?