Solved Questions in Healthcare Economics

Solved Questions in Healthcare Economics

Chapter 15, 16 & 17
Brief answers.
Use the following reference only: Getzen, T. E. (2012). Health Economics and Financing 5th Edition.
15.5 {population growth} How long will it take the population to double if it is growning 1 percent a year? If it is growing 0.1 percent a year?
15.11 {family dynamics} Why do birth rates fall during demographic transition? How can population growth be accelerating if birth rates are declining?
16.2 {flow of funds} How much is spent per person on health care in China? How much is spent per person on health care in the United States? In the United
Kingdom? What are the primary factors accounting for these differences?
16.6 {nominal vs. Real} Mexico spends less than a tenth as much per person on health care as the United States. Does it have more than or less than a tenth
as many hospital beds? Physicians? Is the real amount of health care provided overestimated or underestimated by dollar comparisons? Why?
17.10 {distribution} Which is more representative of the average family income: the median or the mean? Does random variation make a skewed distribution
of costs more or less problematic with regard to affordability?
17.11 {policy, incentives} What policy questions is economics good at answering? What policy questions is economics bad an answering?