HSPM EXAM 4 QUESTIONS WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS 2025!!
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Definition
refers to how much more society gains from vaccination benefits
than it loses in vaccination costs
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Total Surplus Producer Surplus
Social Surplus Budget Surplus
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2 of 85
Definition
The whole reason researchers study valuation of a year of life or the
appropriate quality weight for a disability is because companies and
governments need to make life-and-death decisions on the
patient's behalf
-If people paid full prices for health care and made their own
decisions about whether to get treatment A, C, or H, we would not
need to measure QALYs and the value of a life year because
customers would make socially optimal decisions on their own.
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HTA & Moral Hazard Social Loss
Dominated Treatment Social Surplus
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Term
Is Obesity Contagious?
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Some researchers are concerned that obesity can "spread" not through
physical contact like tuberculosis but through links in a social network.
If obesity spreads this way, it would qualify as a public health crisis after all
(even though we think pooled health insurance does not create social loss).
Researchers using data from a massive study of the residents of a
Massachusetts town tested whether social networks spread obesity—and they
found evidence for obesity contagion.
They found that subjects are more likely to become obese if the people that they
are tied to socially (friends, relatives, coworkers) became obese in a previous
period.
Further, obesity risk increases most dramatically when one person becomes
obese in a mutually-perceived friendship
Unlike other factors that affect economic wellbeing (e.g. height or appearance)
your health is determined by the health of those around you Ex: Hope your
friends got their flu shots!
Many economic externalities in health Both positive and negative ones
When we place a monetary value on each QALY, we implicitly create a set of
indifference curves that can be plotted with the CEF
Assume a person values each QALY at $100,000.
ThispersonisINDIFFERENTbetweenoneextra yearoflifeand$100,000 cash This
indifference is represented in the SLOPE of the individual's indifference curves
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Definition
If high expenditure regions such as Miami are indeed spending at
suboptimal points, what causes them to do so?
, Supply-sensitive care refers to health services whose use depends
greatly on the supply or availability of that service
Example: a doctor's reliance on MRI technology may depend on
how accessible an MRI machine is to him
-Supply-sensitive care can also include hospitalizations and stays in
a intensive care unit
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Supply Sensitive Care & Moral
Hazard Technology Overuse
Technological Innovation Rising Healthcare Costs
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5 of 85
Definition
must also make decisions about which costs to include in the
analysis
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Cost Benefit Analysis Cost-effectiveness analysts
The "social planner" perspective: all
costs count General Idea - QALY
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS 2025!!
1 of 85
Definition
refers to how much more society gains from vaccination benefits
than it loses in vaccination costs
Give this one a try later!
Total Surplus Producer Surplus
Social Surplus Budget Surplus
, Don't know?
2 of 85
Definition
The whole reason researchers study valuation of a year of life or the
appropriate quality weight for a disability is because companies and
governments need to make life-and-death decisions on the
patient's behalf
-If people paid full prices for health care and made their own
decisions about whether to get treatment A, C, or H, we would not
need to measure QALYs and the value of a life year because
customers would make socially optimal decisions on their own.
Give this one a try later!
HTA & Moral Hazard Social Loss
Dominated Treatment Social Surplus
Don't know?
3 of 85
Term
Is Obesity Contagious?
,Give this one a try later!
Some researchers are concerned that obesity can "spread" not through
physical contact like tuberculosis but through links in a social network.
If obesity spreads this way, it would qualify as a public health crisis after all
(even though we think pooled health insurance does not create social loss).
Researchers using data from a massive study of the residents of a
Massachusetts town tested whether social networks spread obesity—and they
found evidence for obesity contagion.
They found that subjects are more likely to become obese if the people that they
are tied to socially (friends, relatives, coworkers) became obese in a previous
period.
Further, obesity risk increases most dramatically when one person becomes
obese in a mutually-perceived friendship
Unlike other factors that affect economic wellbeing (e.g. height or appearance)
your health is determined by the health of those around you Ex: Hope your
friends got their flu shots!
Many economic externalities in health Both positive and negative ones
When we place a monetary value on each QALY, we implicitly create a set of
indifference curves that can be plotted with the CEF
Assume a person values each QALY at $100,000.
ThispersonisINDIFFERENTbetweenoneextra yearoflifeand$100,000 cash This
indifference is represented in the SLOPE of the individual's indifference curves
Don't know?
4 of 85
Definition
If high expenditure regions such as Miami are indeed spending at
suboptimal points, what causes them to do so?
, Supply-sensitive care refers to health services whose use depends
greatly on the supply or availability of that service
Example: a doctor's reliance on MRI technology may depend on
how accessible an MRI machine is to him
-Supply-sensitive care can also include hospitalizations and stays in
a intensive care unit
Give this one a try later!
Supply Sensitive Care & Moral
Hazard Technology Overuse
Technological Innovation Rising Healthcare Costs
Don't know?
5 of 85
Definition
must also make decisions about which costs to include in the
analysis
Give this one a try later!
Cost Benefit Analysis Cost-effectiveness analysts
The "social planner" perspective: all
costs count General Idea - QALY
