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Part 1: Demand

• Chapter 1: Overview of Health Economics

  • Health Econ is different and useful

• Chapter 2: Health Demand

  • Theory and Empirical Demand for Healthcare

• Chapter 3: Health Demand (cont): The Grossman Model

  • Utility maximization with Health

• Chapter 4: Health Demand (cont): Inequalities

  • Empirics and possible explanations to health inequality

Watch:

• The real reason American health care is so expensive (youtube.com)

Read

• How does health spending in the U.S. compare to other countries? - Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker

• Healthcare Spending in the United States Remains High (pgpf.org)

Part 2: Supply

• Chapter 5: Health Supply - Doctors

  • Wages, training, and entry to the market

  • Doctor discrimination

• Chapter 6: Health Supply - Hospitals

  • History of hospitals

  • The relationship between hospitals, doctors, and insurance

Watch:

• Medical School Competitiveness By Country (US vs Canada vs UK) - YouTube

• So You Want to Be a DOCTOR (How to Become One) [Ep. 1] (youtube.com)

• Getting Better: 200 Years of Medicine | NEJM (youtube.com)

• In the 19th Century, Going to the Doctor Could Kill You | Nat Geo Explores - YouTube

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Part 3: Insurance: Information Economics

• Chapter 7: Insurance Demand

  • Uncertainty & Risk preference

  • Insurance

• Chapter 8: Adverse Selection

  • Arkelof’s Market for lemons

• Chapter 9: Adverse Selection (cont)

  • The Rothschild-Stiglitz model

• Chapter 10: Adverse selection (cont)

• Chapter 11: Moral Hazard

Watch:

• The Pros and Cons of Obamacare - YouTube

• Obamacare in Trump country (youtube.com)

• Moral Hazard (youtube.com)

Read

• Read the Affordable Care Act, Health Care Law | HealthCare.gov

• Health insurance plans & prices | HealthCare.gov

• What Is the Individual Mandate? | HealthMarketsThe impact of the repeal of the federal individual insurance mandate on uninsurance | International Journal of Health Economics and Management (springer.com)

Recent topics in Health: Reality & Policy. Chapters 12-24

Part 4: Innovation in Health

• Chapter 12: Innovation

  • Drug, patent, pharma

• Chapter 13 &14: Tech and healthcare price

Part 5: Policy

• Chapter 15: Policy overview

  • Addressing problems

  • Comparing national health policies

• Chapter 16: Nationalized health care

• Chapter 17: Social Health Insurance

• Chapter 18 & 19: American Health Care

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Watch:

• Health care: America vs. the World (youtube.com)

• How French Health Care Compares To The US System (youtube.com)

• How Canada's Universal Health-Care System Works (youtube.com)

• How Germany's Universal Health-Care System Works (youtube.com)

• Medicare Part A B C D Explained (and made simple!) (youtube.com)

• Medicaid, explained: why it's worse to be sick in some states than others (youtube.com)

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Part 6: Public Health

• Chapter 20: Externality

• Chapter 21: Epidemiology

• Chapter 22: Obesity

Watch:

• What is Public Health? Crash Course Public Health #1 - YouTube

• Intro to Epidemiology: Crash Course Public Health #6 - YouTube

• Intro to Epidemiology: Crash Course Public Health #6 (youtube.com)

• What Made The Black Death (The Plague) so Deadly? (youtube.com)

• Fast food, Fat profits: Obesity in America | Fault Lines (youtube.com)

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Read

• Epidemic, Endemic, Pandemic: What are the Differences? | Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

• The average American woman now weighs as much as the average 1960s man - The Washington Post

• Obesity-Update-2017.pdf (oecd.org)

• Food Price Index Monthly Analysis: Commodity Markets Review | YCharts

• Body Weight and Cancer Risk | Obesity Effect on Cancer Risk | American Cancer Society