Introduction to Health Economics
LECTURE NOTES
For All Health Science Students
Introduction to Health Economics
Gashaw Andargie
University of Gondar
In collaboration with the Ethiopia Public Health Training Initiative, The Carter Center, the Ethiopia Ministry of Health, and the Ethiopia Ministry of Education September 2008
Funded under USAID Cooperative Agreement No. 663-A-00-00-0358-00.
Produced in collaboration with the Ethiopia Public Health Training Initiative, The Carter Center, the Ethiopia Ministry of Health, and the Ethiopia Ministry of Education.
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?2008 by Gashaw Andargie All rights reserved. Except as expressly provided above, no part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission of the author or authors.
This material is intended for educational use only by practicing health care workers or students and faculty in a health care field.
PREFACE
Health economics is concerned with the alternative uses of resources in the health services sector and with the efficient utilization of economic resources such as Human resource, material and financial resources. Every health worker needs to acquaint him/ her self with the basic concepts of economics and its application to the health sector in order to manage health institutions and health delivery system efficiently.
"Health economics" as a course is meant to give medical, health officer and other paramedical students basic principles regarding economics and its application to the health sector. Therefore, this material should be regarded as an introduction to health economics rather than to economics.
The lecture note on "Health Economics" is prepared in line with the set curriculum, which is currently in use in health professionals training institutes.
The materials in this lecture note are complied from different books that are published by different authors and also from internet.
Most books in the field emphasize only on some detailed and specific aspects of health economics. The objective of updating this lecture note is, therefore, to improve the basic
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concepts of economics and their application to the health sector and not to exhaustively present all that is important about the subject matter of health economics. Thus, the need for supplementary reference books could be of paramount importance.
Concepts and the analyses presented in this document will help to serve as working material so that students and others could understand and apply basic ideas of economics to the health sector.
The compiling of this material was made possible through the teaching and learning process of the course "Health Economics' at the University of Gondar. Updating of the document should be understood as a process of making amendments of lecture materials. I do not claim that the material is an original work, hence due gratitude is extended to the previous authors of those lecture notes and books that served as sources for this instruction material.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
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I would like to extend my deepest gratitude to the Carter Center for supporting the preparation of this lecture note.
The preparation of these lecture notes is made possible by the first lecture note made by Mr Gezachew Ashagrie.
I also extend many thanks to the local intra and inter institutional reviewers Ato Esayas Haregot from Mekelle University, Dr. Vilasini Devi from Jimma University and Ato Mesfin Mengistu from Hawassa University. In addition, I would like to pass my deepest gratitude to national reviewers, Dr Damen H/ Maraim and Dr Abdulhamid Bedri Kello, Health Economists, from Addis Ababa University, Medical Faculty and College of Development Studies.
I would also like to share my appreciation to Ato Aklilu Mulugata, the staff of the Carter Center, for his devoted support throughout the preparation of this lecture note.
Finally, I would like to express my hart felt thanks to all public health Faculty Authorities for permission to work on this lecture note besides the routine activities of the Faculty.
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