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Health Economics-Period 1
Business & Economics Program
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dates: mid Aug 2025 - early Jun 2026
Health Economics-Period 1
OVERVIEW
CEA CAPA Partner Institution: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Primary Subject Area: Economics
Instruction in: English
Course Code: E_EBE3_HEC
Transcript Source: Partner Institution
Course Details: Level 300
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 84
DESCRIPTION
The central theme of this course is the economic optimalization of health care systems. This course provides students the necessary economic knowledge to analyse health care policy and to analyse the economic effects of health care policy measures. The following topics will be addressed:
- health care system's main objectives;
- methods to evaluate the economic performance of health care;
- the analysis of the influence of market coordination;
- the causes of growth in health care expenditures;
- diversification of health care processes and ways to control this variation;
- cost control in health care.
Contact hours listed under a course description may vary due to the combination of lecture-based and independent work required for each course therefore, CEA's recommended credits are based on the ECTS credits assigned by VU Amsterdam. 1 ECTS equals 28 contact hours assigned by VU Amsterdam.
- health care system's main objectives;
- methods to evaluate the economic performance of health care;
- the analysis of the influence of market coordination;
- the causes of growth in health care expenditures;
- diversification of health care processes and ways to control this variation;
- cost control in health care.
Contact hours listed under a course description may vary due to the combination of lecture-based and independent work required for each course therefore, CEA's recommended credits are based on the ECTS credits assigned by VU Amsterdam. 1 ECTS equals 28 contact hours assigned by VU Amsterdam.