Subject(s): Demand for Health Capital, health care -- Comparative Health Care Systems -- Health economics , health care delivery, large role of non-profit firms, government subsidies and public provision -- Microeconomic tools for health economics : Scarcity and the production possibilities frontier, practice with supply and demand, functions and curves, consumer theory- ideas behind the demand curve, individual and market supply -- Statistical tools for health economics : Regression analysis, ordinary least squares (OLS) regressions, multi regression analysis, interpreting regression coefficients, statistical inference in the sciences and social sciences -- Economic efficiency and cost benefit analysis : Cost effective analysis, QALYs and DALYs, standard welfare economics, extra welfarism -- Production of health : role of medicine and health care, mortality rate declines, production function of health in modern day, health care affects health, role of schooling -- Production, cost and technology of health care : production and the possibilities for substitution, costs in theory and practice, technical and allocative inefficiency, technological changes and costs, new health care technologies -- Demand for health capital -- Demand and supply of health insurance : Risk and insurance, demand for insurance, health insurance and the efficient allocation of resources, income transfer effects of insurance -- Consumer choice and demand : Applying standard budget constraint model, two additional demand shifters, issues in measuring health care demand, empirical measurements of demand elasticities, impact of insurance on aggregate expenditures, -- Asymmetric information and agency : information problems in helath sector, application of the lemons principle, agency relationship, consumer information, price and quality -- Organization of health insurance markets : loading costs and the behaviour of insurance firms, employer provision of health insurance, employer-based health insurance and labour supply, market for insurance -- Managed care : Modeling managed care, HMOs,RAND study, accountable care organizations - ACOs, managed care and the affordable care act -- Non-profit firms : models of non profit hospital behaviour, relative efficiency of nonprofit v/s for profits -- Hospitals and long-term care : Medical arms race (MAR) closures, mergers and restructuring , nursing homes -- Physician's practice : physician agency and supplier -induced demand (SID), small area variations (SAV) -- Health care labour markets and professional training, pharmaceutical industry, equity, efficiency and need, government intervention in health care markets, social insurance, comparative health care systems, health system reform, Affordable care act (ACA) 2010, health economic of bads, economics of social capital and health,