ECONOMIA SANITARIA

The course aims at understanding the explanatory factors of the demand for health care services, the characteristics of the health care service supply, the problems concerning the allocation of resources within the health sector and elements for policy evaluation in this area. The student will acquire the ability to apply the tools of the economic analysis, in order to evaluate efficiency and equity issues in the allocation of resources in a given health system, and to identify the characteristics of the main intervention policies to address these problems.

Organization and financing of health systems; taxonomy of health systems; the Italian National Health Service and its comparison with other health systems; health needs and demand for health care services; the Grossman model; doctor-patient agency relationship; the provision of health care services; the theoretical models of hospital behavior; the efficiency in the provision of health care services; quality and appropriateness; principles and methods of economic evaluation of health care services.

1. Rosella Levaggi – Stefano Capri, Economia Sanitaria, Franco Angeli, 2008 (chapters 1, 2, 3, 7, 9, 10).
2. Michael Drummond et al., Metodi per la valutazione economica dei programmi sanitari, Il Pensiero Scientifico, 2010, terza edizione (chapters 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7).