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Health Policy & Management (HPM101) – Chapter 4 Key Terms (40 Questions) | Market Structures, Efficiency, Public Goods, Cost Theory

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This document contains a complete and expertly verified set of 40 key term questions and answers from Chapter 4 of the Health Policy and Management (HPM101) course for the 2025/2026 academic year. It explores the intersection of health policy with advanced economic theory, focusing on market behavior, production theory, inefficiencies, and policy-relevant economic classifications. Topics include market structures such as monopoly, monopsony, and bilateral monopoly; efficiency measures like technical and allocative efficiency; and critical healthcare economic concerns like market failure, consumer/producer surplus, externalities, and asymmetric information. The document also covers public goods theory (non-rivalry, nonexcludability, merit goods, free riders), alongside pricing mechanisms like price discrimination, price ceilings, and price transparency. Additionally, students will engage with fundamental production and cost theory, including concepts such as isoquants, marginal product, average product, MRTS, isocost curves, and the law of diminishing returns. These principles are essential for understanding how healthcare providers optimize input use and face constraints in both the short and long run. This document is ideal for students in Public Health, Health Economics, Health Policy, Medical Sociology, and Healthcare Management, as well as those in MPH, MHA, or MSc Health Systems programs. It’s a valuable tool for undergraduate and graduate learners seeking mastery of economic concepts that inform real-world health policy design, resource allocation, and system efficiency. Keywords: monopoly, monopsony, bilateral monopoly, market failure, technical efficiency, allocative efficiency, case fatality rate, consumer surplus, producer surplus, optimal output level, monopoly power, HHI, Herfindahl-Hirschman Index, positive analysis, normative analysis, externality, merit good, non-rival good, nonexcludable good, free rider, dead-weight loss, price ceiling, type I error, type II error, asymmetric information, price transparency, price discrimination, moral hazard, adverse selection, production function, isoquants, MRTS, marginal rate of technical substitution, fixed inputs, variable inputs, short run, long run, marginal product, average product, total product, law of diminishing returns, isocost curve

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Bilateral monopoly - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔When there is monopoly on the seller's

side of the market and monopsony on the buyer's side.


Monopsony - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A situation in a market where there is only

one buyer.


Monopoly - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔An entity that is the sole supplier in a market

and has total control of the supply of the goods or services produced.


Market failure - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A situation in which a market fails to

produce the socially optimal level of output.

, Technical efficiency - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Efficiency in production, or cost

efficiency.


Allocative efficiency - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The situation in which producers

make the goods and services that consumers desire. For every item, the

marginal cost of production is less than or equal to the marginal benefit

received by consumers.


Case fatality rate (CFR) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The number of deaths from a

particular disease relative to the number of people diagnosed with the

disease.


Consumer surplus - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A measure of consumer welfare

calculated by the difference between the price that consumers are willing to

pay and the price they actually pay.


Producer surplus - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The total welfare a producer receives by

producing and selling a good, measured by the difference between the net

price they receive less the minimum price they are willing to accept

(typically the cost of production).


Optimal output level - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A market equilibrium in which the

marginal benefit received from every unit of output is greater than or equal

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