ECO 471/571 Health Economics

Syllabus
Slides	Papers and Projects
Introduction	SiCKO
Health and Health Care Demand
The Nature of Health Insurance Markets	Debate Project
Managed Care
Social Insurance
Physicians and Nurses
Physician Agency
Hospitals
Role of Technology
The Economics of Pharmaceuticals
Obesity
The Economics of Sex and Sexual Health	Reading

Handouts
Health Econ Related Blog Posts
Useful Links
Databases CEA Registry, Standardizing the Methods and Practices of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/cearegistry/ CODECS (French articles on evaluation of health care technologies): http://www.inserm.fr/codecs/codecs.nsf Health Economics, Places to Go: http://www.medecon.de/index.htm Kaiser Family Foundation, State Health Facts: http://www.statehealthfacts.kff.org NHS EED (Economic Evaluation Databases): http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/nhsdhp.htm WebEc, Health and Welfare: http://www.helsinki.fi/WebEc/webeci.html International Organizations Canadian Institute for Health Information: http://secure.cihi.ca/cihiweb/dispPage.jsp?cw_page=home_e Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada: http://www.healthcarecommission.ca The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: http://www.theglobalfund.org/ Health Canada: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/english/index.html National Health Service (United Kingdom): http://www.nhs.uk/ Organization for Economic Co-operations and Development: http://www.oecd.org/ OECD Health Data: http://www.oecd.org/health/healthdata/ Pan American Health Organization (PAHO): http://www.paho.org/ PhRMA: http://www.phrma.org/ UNAIDS: http://www.unaids.org/en/default.asp World Health Organization(WHO): http://www.who.int/ Journals and Publications Business and Health Institute: http://www.managedhealthcareexecutive.com/mhe/static/staticHtml.jsp?id=134801 Free Medical Journals: http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/ Harvard World Health News: http://www.worldhealthnews.harvard.edu/ Medical Economics, The Business Magazine of the Medical Profession: http://www.memag.com/memag/ Journal of Health Economics Professional Associations America's Health Insurance Plans: http://www.ahip.org/ The American Hospital Association: http://www.aha.org/aha/about/index.html The American Medical Association: http://www.ama-assn.org/ The American Medical Association, Health Policy Group: http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/3037.html The American Nurses Association: http://www.nursingworld.org/ International Health Economics Association: http://www.healtheconomics.org/	Research Organizations Ageline: http://www.aarp.org/research/ageline/ Boston Health Economics, Inc.: http://www.bhei.com/ Centre for Health Economics at the University of York: http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/che/ Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation (CHERE), Australia: http://www.chere.uts.edu.au/index.html Century Foundation: http://www.tcf.org The Commonwealth Fund: http://www.cmwf.org Council on Health Care Economics and Policy: http://sihp.brandeis.edu/council/ The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care: http://www.dartmouthatlas.org/ The Office of Health Economics: http://www.ohe.org/ RAND: http://www.rand.org/ U.S. Government Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ): http://www.ahrq.gov/ Bureau of Labor Statistics, Worker Safety and Health: http://www.bls.gov/bls/safety.htm Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: http://www.cdc.gov/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services: http://cms.hhs.gov/ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, An Overview of the U.S. Healthcare System (PDF): http://www.cms.hhs.gov/charts/healthcaresystem/chapter1.pdf Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: http://cms.hhs.gov/physicians/pfs/default.asp Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, National Health Care Expenditures Projections: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/statistics/nhe/projections-2003/highlights.asp Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, National Health Expenditures Historical: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/statistics/nhe/historical/ Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics: http://www.agingstats.gov/ Health Economics Resource Center: http://www.herc.research.med.va.gov/ Health Resources and Services Administration: http://www.hrsa.gov/ MedPAC: http://www.medpac.gov/ National Institutes of Health: http://www.nih.gov/ National Library of Medicine, Health Services Research: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nlmhome.html U.S. Census Bureau, Health Insurance Data: http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/hlthins/hlthins.html U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: http://www.dhhs.gov/ National Center for Health Workforce Analysis: http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/healthworkforce/ U.S. Veterans Administration: http://www.va.gov

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