Course Name: Economics of Health and Health Care

Course abstract

When I was doing my doctoral research in the area of Health Eonomics several people asked me that What does this Economics in Healthcare mean?” Health economics or Economics of Healthcare is a discipline of economics which is concerned with the association between health status and the related resources assessing the value, behavior, efficiency and effectiveness of various stakeholders in the production and consumption of healthcare. Pertaining to several factors Health Economics has not been studied well in India or in many other developing countries, unike the developed economies. Learning Objectives: 1. To provide the students a broad understanding about the fundamental economic concepts in the area of health, health care and health policy. 2. To equip students with economic theories and logics in order to analyze the behavior of different economics agents at the individual, household, community and institutional (government and non-governmental) levels within the healthcare market frameworks. 3. To help them to build rationale and strategies based on the economic valuation of healthcare system and the measurement of efficiency level. 4. To learn about the shortcomings of a lowly developed economy to attain best health status and the health and development nexus. 5. To understand the healthcare financing mechanism and its evolution.


Course Instructor

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Prof. Angan Sengupta

Prof. Angan Sengupta is an Assistant Professor with the Dept. of Management, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Bangalore campus. He has done his PhD in the area of Health Economics and Policy from Maastricht University, The Netherlands. He has post-graduation degrees in Economics from Calcutta University and in Population Studies from International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai. He has garnered corporate experience working with A.C. Nielsen ORG-MARG, while his research and teaching experience includes various institutes and organizations like, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, Institute of Health Management Research, Bangalore. Dr. Sengupta has worked on various large scale implementation and M&E surveys. Dr. Angan is a recipient of ICSSR doctoral fellowship as well as UGC NET-Junior Research Fellowship. He also earned a fellowship from TIFAC, Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India to conduct a research as a Young Summer Scientist in IIASA, Austria. He has presented research papers in several national and international conferences and public seminars and also published scientific papers in highly reputed national and international journals.His research interests include Population and Health Economics, Economics of Ecology and Natural Resources, Statistics, Demography, and Epidemiology.
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Teaching Assistant(s)

Livika Chophi

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 Course Duration : Jul-Sep 2019

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 Enrollment : 15-May-2019 to 05-Aug-2019

 Exam registration : 01-Jun-2019 to 26-Aug-2019

 Exam Date : 29-Sep-2019

Enrolled

1366

Registered

294

Certificate Eligible

141

Certified Category Count

Gold

0

Silver

1

Elite

44

Successfully completed

96

Participation

110

Success

Elite

Silver

Gold





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AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75 AND FINAL SCORE >=40
BASED ON THE FINAL SCORE, Certificate criteria will be as below:
>=90 - Elite + Gold
75-89 -Elite + Silver
>=60 - Elite
40-59 - Successfully Completed

Final Score Calculation Logic

  • Assignment Score = Average of best 6 out of 8 assignments.
  • Final Score(Score on Certificate)= 75% of Exam Score + 25% of Assignment Score
Economics of Health and Health Care - Toppers list
Top 1 % of Certified Candidates

JATIN CHAUDARY 75%

ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES


Top 2 % of Certified Candidates

NIDHI KATHIRIA 73%

SOFTVISION COLLEGE

ANJALI GUPTA 72%

BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY

ROHIT KATRE 72%

MAULANA AZAD MEDICAL COLLEGE

HARSHIT AGGARWAL 72%

VIT UNIVERSITY-VELLORE


Top 5 % of Certified Candidates

DR. SHAMI AMOL NIMGULKAR KAMBLE 71%

PRAHLADRAI DALMIA LIONS COLLEGE OF COMMERCE AND ECONOMICS

SARTHI MANCHANDA 71%

UNEMPLOYED

DR. MEENAKSHI GUPTA 71%

SHRI MATA VAISHNO DEVI UNIVERSITY

RAGHAV UPADHYAI 71%

IMS UNISON UNIVERSITY

Enrollment Statistics

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Registration Statistics

Total Registration : 294

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Assignment Score: Distribution of average scores garnered by students per assignment.
Exam Score : Distribution of the final exam score of students.
Final Score : Distribution of the combined score of assignments and final exam, based on the score logic.