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Lesson Information

Course Credit
Course ECTS Credit
Teaching Language of Instruction Türkçe
Level of Course Bachelor's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 6, EQF-LLL: Level 6, QF-EHEA: First Cycle
Type of Course
Mode of Delivery Face-to-face
Does the course require compulsory or optional work experience?
Course Coordinator Assist. Prof. Dr. TUĞBA ŞAHİN ÇİÇEK
Instructor (s)
Course Assistant

Purpose and Content

The aim of the course The number of health enterprises and the quality of service they provide have increased in recent years. The demand for these organizations is increasing in direct proportion to the quality they provide. Health administrators, who want to obtain maximum benefit with the scarce resources available, benefit from economics in the management of these rapidly growing businesses. Due to the differences in health services and therefore the institutions providing health services, supply, demand, supply-demand balance and demand elasticity will also be different. This course gives information about the economic evaluations of health enterprises that are different from other institutions and presents examples from the market.
Course Content Specific features of health services and its market, Supply and demand of health services, factors affecting demand, Elasticity of demand, Factors affecting elasticity of demand: The severity of need, the effect of income, the effect of insurance, the effect of price, the role of the physician. Supply elasticity. Health Services Supply and Factors Affecting Supply Elasticity: Price, Healthcare Labor and Hospital Investments, Medical Technology, Capacity Utilization Rate. State Intervention in Health Service Supply.

Weekly Course Subjects

1Economics and basic concepts
2Health and health status
3Health economics and development
4Supply and supply of health services
5Demand and demand for health services
6Healthcare market
7The concept of sustainable development and health
8Midterm
9Healthcare financing systems
10Performance and reimbursement systems in healthcare
11Health sector and economic planning
12Economic evaluation in health care
13Turkey health expenditure analysis
14Current issues and problems in the health sector

Resources

1-Sağlık Ekonomisi, Yusuf Çelik, Siyasal Kitabevi, 2019
2-Sağlık Ekonomisi, Jay Bhattacharya, Timothy Hyde - Peter Tu, Nobel Kitabevi, 2021
3-Sağlık Ekonomisi ve Yönetimi, Erdinç Ünal, Ekin Basım Yayın Dağıtım, 2013