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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 Course Duration : Sep-Nov 2020

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 Enrollment : 20-May-2020 to 21-Sep-2020

 Exam registration : 14-Sep-2020 to 02-Nov-2020

 Exam Date : 20-Dec-2020

Enrolled

2606

Registered

159

Certificate Eligible

94

Certified Category Count

Gold

1

Silver

13

Elite

21

Successfully completed

59

Participation

40

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

SAMUDYATHA U C 91%

Government Medical College Surat

FREDERICK SATIRO VAZ 86%

Goa Medical College

BIKRAMJOT GUJRAL 83%

CGI

INDRAJIT SAHA 83%

BANKURA SAMMILANI COLLEGE

ARUNACHALAM R 82%

GOVERNMENT MOHAN KUMARAMANGALAM MEDICAL COLLEGE

Enrollment Statistics

Total Enrollment: 2606

Registration Statistics

Total Registration : 155

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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.