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Lecture summary for Competition in Healthcare Markets at Erasmus University Rotterdam, covering the industrial organization of healthcare markets and their functioning. Topics include network formation, price negotiation, hospital mergers, merger simulations, competition policy, and the multistage model of healthcare market outcomes—with specific focus on the tension between market failure and government failure. Essential preparation for understanding how competition analysis applies to healt...

Lecture notes from Behavioral Decision Theory in Health at Erasmus University Rotterdam covering the three-dimensional QALY (Quality-Adjusted Life-Years) framework. Topics include QALY model specifications, utility measurement through standard gamble and time-trade-off methods, expected utility theory, mutual utility independence conditions (Pliskin et al. 1980), and critiques of QALY valuations including lead-time bias and worse-than-dead state problems. Essential for understanding health econo...

Lecture notes of Comparative Health Policy at Erasmus University Rotterdam, covering the foundational frameworks for analyzing health systems across countries. Topics include variable-oriented vs. case-oriented comparative design, most similar and most different case comparisons, and central aims of health policy sciences (explaining similarities, differences, continuity, change, and policy learning). These notes provide essential grounding in comparative methodology and are ideal for understand...

Summary of cases and literature for Week 1 of International Health Law at Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, covering foundational concepts in international law and human rights. Topics include binding vs. soft law instruments, key human rights treaties (ICCPR, ICESCR, ECHR, Oviedo Convention), state responsibility doctrine, and the principles of Global Health Law. Essential study material for understanding how international legal frameworks protect health rights and limit state power in health eme...

Lecture notes from International Health Law at Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam covering the fundamentals of international law and its application to health systems. Topics include sources of international law (treaties, custom, judicial decisions), human rights obligations, state responsibilities in health protection, and substantive and procedural obligations under international human rights law. These notes provide essential coverage of foundational concepts and case law interpretation needed f...

Lecture notes from the Health Technology Assessment course at Erasmus University Rotterdam, covering the fundamentals of HTA and economic evaluation in healthcare. The document explains key concepts including opportunity cost, the six-step HTA process, trial-based versus model-based economic evaluations, and cost-effectiveness analysis with real-world examples such as Ozempic reimbursement decisions in the Netherlands. Essential reading for understanding how healthcare systems make decisions abo...

Knowledge clips from Week 1 of Economics of Health and Healthcare at Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, covering foundational concepts in population health and economic theory. The document explains key health measurement approaches (life expectancy, mortality, morbidity, healthy life expectancy), three major puzzles in health (temporal changes, cross-country variation, within-country inequality), and economic modeling principles including utility maximization and ceteris paribus assumptions. Also ...

Lecture notes from the Economics and Financing course at Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, covering foundational concepts in health economics. Topics include the relevance of health economics, expansion of the healthcare sector, distinctive features of healthcare as an economic commodity, healthcare demand models, utility theory, and price/income elasticities. Essential for understanding how economic principles apply to healthcare allocation, efficiency, and equity - ideal preparation for exams an...

This workbook for Advanced Research Methods at Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam guides students through practical research methodology training in Semester 1. The document covers Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs), causal inference, confounding, and real-world research cases including COPD treatment cost analysis. The structured work group and PC lab sessions with pre- and post-session questions make this essential for mastering causal inference concepts and preparing for exams in health economics res...

Lecture notes from Advanced Research Methods at Erasmus University Rotterdam covering Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) and their application in research design. The document explains DAG terminology, causal and backdoor paths, colliders, and how to determine which variables to adjust for in regression analysis to answer research questions unbiasedly. Essential for understanding causal inference in health economics and policy research—saves time by consolidating key concepts from the knowledge cl...