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NUR 322 Health Economics

HND1 levelMedical & Health Sciences14 topics

NUR 322 covers 14 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Basic economic concepts
  2. Supply and demand in health care
  3. Factors affecting health service demand and supply
  4. Macroeconomic indices: GNP and GDP
  5. Political and socio-economic influences on health care
  6. National Health Policy
  7. Implementation strategies of health policy
  8. National Council on Health
  9. Health manpower development
  10. Health care financing
  11. Health insurance schemes
  12. Efficiency, effectiveness and equity in financing
  13. Funding across levels of care
  14. Nurse's role in health planning

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Basic economic concepts

Basic economic concepts in health economics cover the fundamental ideas of scarcity, opportunity cost, supply and demand, and market equilibrium. Mastering these concepts is essential because they underpin the analysis of how health resources are allocated, how prices are set, and how policies influence health outcomes.

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