| Area: |
Centre for International Health |
| Credits: |
25.0 |
| Contact Hours: |
4.0 |
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| ** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. ** |
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| Individual Study: |
1 x 4 Hours Weekly |
| Prerequisite(s): |
308950 (v.1) Micro Economics in Aboriginal Health 501
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| Syllabus: |
Overview of health economics. Value base of health economics. Value and ethical base of health care and of medicine. Measuring health and other outcomes. Economic evaluation and priority setting both for equity and efficiency. Equity as a goal of health and the need for careful definition but by whom. Paying hospitals. The hospital as a firm. Financing systems, insurance, the merits of competition, the public versus private split. Different objectives for different systems. Cultural base for health care systems. The communitarian value base of Aboriginal culture in a different health economics for Aboriginal health services. Accommodating a holistic construct of health into Aboriginal health economics. |
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| ** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. ** |
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| Field of Education: | 090311 Indigenous Studies |
| Funding Cluster: | 03 - Humanities |
| SOLT (Online) Definitions*: | Not Categorised
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information |
| Result Type: | Grade/Mark |
Availability |
| Year |
Location |
Period |
Internal |
Partially Online Internal |
Area External |
Central External |
Fully Online |
| 2005 |
Bentley Campus |
Study Period 10 |
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Y |
| 2005 |
Bentley Campus |
Study Period 3 |
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Y |
| 2005 |
Bentley Campus |
Study Period 5 |
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Y |
| 2005 |
Bentley Campus |
Study Period 8 |
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Y |
Area
External |
refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research. |
Central
External | refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area |
Partially
Online
Internal | refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External |
Fully
Online | refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External |
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