Syllabus/achievement requirements

Employees and students at UiO have access to all e-journals that UiO subscribe to(4500 titles). The access is limited to PCs with an IP-number belonging to UiO. In the reading list articles available on the web are marked "Subscription".

Compendiums are available at Akademika (Kopiutsalget)

Reading list.1. Introduction

OECD: Health at a glance - OECD indicators 2003, Paris 2003. http://www.oecd.org/document/11/0,3343,en26493463116502667111_1,00.html

OECD: Towards high-performing health systems, Paris, 2004. www.oecd.org/dataoecd/15/23/31737305.pdf

2. Systems, equity and reforms

Kornai, J. and K. Eggleston: Welfare, choise and solidarity in transition, 2001. Cambridge University Press. Pp. 47-99.

Cutler, D. : Equality, efficiency and market fundamentals: The dynamics of international medical-care reform , 2002. Journal of Economic Literature, 40: 881-906.

Williams, A. and R. Cookson: Equity in Health, 2000. In A.J. Culyer and J.P. Newhouse (ed.): "Handbook of Health Economics, Volume 1B" (Elsevier Science, Amsterdam): 1863-1910.

3. Demand for health and health services

Grossmann, M.: The Human Capital Model, 2000. In A.J. Culyer and J.P. Newhouse (eds) "Handbook of Health Economics, Volume 1A" (Elsevier Science B.V. Amsterdam): pp. 348-408.

Hey, J.D. and M.S. Patel: Prevention and cure? Or: is an ounce of prevention better than a pund of cure?, Journal of Economic Literature 2 (1983): 119-138.

4. Demand for health insurance

Zweifel, P. and F. Breyer: Health Economics, 1997 (Oxford University Press). Chapter 6: Optimal Design of Health Insurance Contracts pp. 156 - 200.

Rees, R.: Uncertainty, inforamtion and insurance, 1989. In J.D. Hey (ed) Current Issues in Microeconomics (Palgrave Macmillian, London).

Arrow, K.E.: Uncertainty and the welfare economics of medical care, American Economic Review 53: 941-973. Subscription

5. Health service provision

Bi?rn, E., T.P. Hagen, T. Iversen and J. Magnussen: The Effect of Activity-Based Financing on Hospital Efficiency: A Panel Data Analysis of DEA Efficiency Scores 1992-2000, 2003. Health Care Management Science 6: 271-283. Subscription

Chalkley, M. and J.M. Malcomson: Government purchasing of health services, 2000. In A.J.Culyer and J.P. Newhouse (ed.): "Handbook of Health Economics, Volume 1A" (Elsevier Science, Amsterdam): 847-889.

Eika, K.: The challenge of obtaining quality care: limited consumer sovereignity in human services, Forthcoming in Feminist Economics.

Leger, P.T: Physician payment mechanisms. In M. Lu and E. Johnsson: Financing health care. New ideas for a changing society, (wiley-VCH Verlag, Weinheim), 149-176.

McGuire, T.G.: Physician agency, 2000. In A.J. Culyer and J.P. Newhouse: "Handbook of Health Economics, Volume 1A" (Elsevier Science, Amsterdam): 461-536.

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