Health and environmental economics (2020/2021)

Learning outcomes

The course provides an overview of how models from general microeconomic theory can be used to understand the main issues in environmental and health economics. It will investigate the economic determinants and implications of the current environmental and health challenges. At the end of the course students should be able to: - assess the strengths and weaknesses of alternative environmental policies with real world examples from developing and developed countries, - interpret the main economic issues relevant for modern health care systems: efficiency, equity, sustainability, - understand how analytical models can be used for the assessment of the evolution of variables of interest in both health and environmental economics and for the economic evaluation of market innovations and policies - gain basic ability on the use of appropriate software to solve relevant problems in health and environmental economics

- Environmental effects on health
- Climate change and health
- Biodiversity and health
- Environmental policy instruments (e.g., taxes, payments for environmental services, ecolabelling, ecotourism)
- Environment, health, and human capital
- The link between economic variables and health
- The demand for health care
- Market failures in health care markets
- Health care supply: alternative models
- The key Features of some Health Care Systems around the world
- Asymmetry of information and contracts in health care
- The economic evaluation of health care interventions
- Introduction to computer programming for economic evaluation

Details concerning assessment will be published as soon as more precise information regarding any limitation to activities due to the current health emergency is available