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73181-01 - Lecture: Principles of Health Economics (3 CP)
| Semester | fall semester 2025 |
| Course frequency | Every 2nd fall sem. |
| Lecturers | Armando N. Meier (armando.meier@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | This course provides a broad overview of principles of health economics and highlights ongoing research areas. Health economists investigate where waste occurs in the health care system, how health insurance companies act, what drives individual health behaviors, inequality in healthcare outcomes and utilization, and how governments should regulate healthcare markets to set the right incentives. The toolkit employed by health economists consists of formal theoretical models used to understand firm healthcare provider, health insurer, patient, and government behavior as well as rigorous empirical methods honed to identify causal effects in observational data and measure the value of health interventions and policies. The course organized in collaboration with the Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+) and the University of Lausanne offers a broad overview of topics at the heart of health economics by several experts from across Switzerland. The course allows Master students to interact with PhD students from a variety of fields such as epidemiology, public health, medicine, and law. |
| Admission requirements | Admission requirements: Master students: Completed Bachelor, completion of the 1st year of the Masters and goal of writing a Master thesis on health economics topics. PhD students: Enrolled PhD student in any field. All PhD students need to enroll via the Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+). This course is strongly recommended before writing a Master Thesis in Health Economics. |
| Course application | 1. If you are interested in participating, please send an email to Prof. Armando Meier (armando.meier@unibas.ch) until September 4, 2025, at the latest. Please indicate your name, study major, number of semesters and matriculation number. Please make sure that you are registered for the fall semester and have paid the semester fees before the course starts. Eucor-Students and mobility students of other Swiss Universities or the FHNW first have to register at the University of Basel BEFORE the enrolment deadline and receive their login data by post (email address of the University of Basel). Processing time up to a week! Detailed information can be found here: https://www.unibas.ch/en/Studies/In-My-Studies/Mobility.html After successful registration you have access to the enrolment link. 2. You will then be notified if you have been admitted to the course. 3. A deregistration is possible until September 7, 2025, 8 pm. 4. Your registration will be entered in your Online Services only after the official deadline of the course registration period, i.e. after October 13, 2025. 5. The following applies to everyone: enrollment = registration for the exam/assignment! In case of non-participation after registration it will be noted as "nicht erschienen" in the transcript. |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| täglich | See individual dates | ||
Dates
| Date | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Monday 08.09.2025 | 09.30-17.00 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Seminarraum S15 HG.31 |
| Tuesday 09.09.2025 | 09.30-17.00 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Seminarraum S15 HG.31 |
| Wednesday 10.09.2025 | 09.30-17.00 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Seminarraum S15 HG.31 |
| Thursday 11.09.2025 | 09.30-17.00 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Seminarraum S15 HG.31 |
| Friday 12.09.2025 | 09.30-12.30 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Seminarraum S15 HG.31 |
| Modules |
Module: Field Electives in Economics and Public Policy (Master's Studies: Economics and Public Policy) Module: Policy Field: Health and Labor (Master's Studies: Economics and Public Policy) Module: Specific Electives in Labor Economics, Human Resources and Organization (Master's Studies: Business and Economics) |
| Assessment format | record of achievement |
| Assessment details | Pass/fail based on an essay |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Registration/deregistration: teaching staff |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | as often as necessary |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Business and Economics , studiendekanat-wwz@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Faculty of Business and Economics |