HEALTH ECONOMICS 4646-001


Interesting Links on Health and Development

  • World Bank New Brief: Malawi and Tanzania Research Shows Promise in Preventing HIV and Sexually-Transmitted Infections
  • Executive Summary: Malawi CCT for Adolescent Girls
  • Interesting Links on Health Care Reform

  • Kaiser: Health Reform Hits Main Street
  • Kaiser: information on health reform and implementation timeline
  • NPR: Accident of History Created US Health Care System
  • FRONTLINE: Sick Around the World
  • NYT: History of Health Care Reform in the US
  • NYT: The Status of Health Care Legislation in Congress
  • NYT: Comparison of different government committee health care proposals
  • Obama Health Care Address to Congress - Sept 8, 2009
  • Newsweek Article: The Five Biggest Lies in the Health Care Debate
  • New York Times Blog on Health Care Debate
  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on health care reform
  • Kaiser Family Foundation on health care reform
  • Commonwealth Fund on health care reform
  • Assignments

    Lecture Slides

  • Lecture 1: Overview
  • Lecture 2: Overview- rising spending
  • Lecture 3: Micro Review
  • Lecture 4 & 5: Impact Evaluation
  • Lecture 5 & 6: Conditional Cash Transfer Programs - Progresa
  • Lecture 7 & 8: Health Production
  • Lecture 9: Health Demand
  • Lecture 10/11/12: Insurance 1 & 2
  • Lecture 10/11/12: Insurance 1 & 2
  • Lecture 13: Documentary - "Breakdown: Americaa's Health Insurance Crisis"
  • Lecture 14/15: Role of the Government
  • Lecture 16/17: Equity Efficiency and Need
  • Lecture 18/20: Social Insurance
  • Lecture 20/21: Providers: Hospitals
  • Lecture 22/23: Providers: Pharmaceutical Industry
  • Lecture 24/25: Health and Development Part 1
  • Lecture 26/27: Health and Development Part 2
  • Lecture 28 - FRONTLINE: Sick Around the World
  • Lecture 29: International Comparisons
  • Lecture 29: Brief US Health Care History
  • Lecture 30: Health Care Reform Part 1 - Obama Health Care Address to Congress (see above for link)
  • Lecture 31: Health Care Reform Part 2 - Health Reform Hits Main Street (see above for link)
  • Lecture 33: Health Care Reform Part 3