HLTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Infant Mortality, Profit Motive, Discounts And Allowances
Document Summary
Sharing techniques for evaluating health issues using economics. Economics jargon: terms you get familiar with. To emphasize the importance of health care economics. Society level: someone next to you doesn"t have a disease. Access to health care improves your health and society health. Health care is a way of modifying the incidence of poor health. Economic analysis offers a unique framework for analyzing and finding solutions to health care issues. A large amount of money is spent on health care. Changes in technology, increases in service utilization and health-sector inflation above the rate of general inflation. Also pays for the many machineries needed in health care units; surgeries with machinery. Global health care issues are being discussed in economics. Resources available to society are scarce; not plentiful. Decisions must be made about what is their best use. Resources are best used when they maximize benefits to society. The analysis of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.