Health Economics
Health Economics
Nowadays, economics have taken their high places in the countries, and they are necessary in the business field because they analyze the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. One of these economics is the health economics. Health delivery. The application of health economics reflects a universal desire to obtain maximum value for money by ensuring not just the clinical effectiveness, but also the cost-effectiveness of healthcare provision.
Human usually maintain his life and accepts all the methods required to preserve it by following the different preventive ways at the level of individual and collective. Obviously, the disease impairs the human’s energy, in addition to the expenditures incurred by him and the amount of production lost because of the absence from work. From the material terms, the medical expense is a part of the human’s individual expense because the person will need to buy the required medicine note that the cost of treating the disease increases as a result of scientific discoveries and the resulting complex devices to diagnose and treat the disease. But from the production terms, it’s known that the psychological situation of the patient affects his work and decreases the amount of the production. Also, being absent from work because of the disease prevents the person from doing his job so, people will not benefit from his mental, physical and different potentials. Consequently, if we considered that the human element is the effective moving element to make the economic development and social plans, his absence will be an obstacle and will delay the required things from him therefore, the raising level of population’s health is an essential goal that must be reached, either for securing the person’s joy, or to raise the work’s production.
Health care demand
Health care is demanded as a means for consumers to achieve a larger stock of "health capital." The need for health is not
Nowadays, economics have taken their high places in the countries, and they are necessary in the business field because they analyze the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. One of these economics is the health economics. Health delivery. The application of health economics reflects a universal desire to obtain maximum value for money by ensuring not just the clinical effectiveness, but also the cost-effectiveness of healthcare provision.
Human usually maintain his life and accepts all the methods required to preserve it by following the different preventive ways at the level of individual and collective. Obviously, the disease impairs the human’s energy, in addition to the expenditures incurred by him and the amount of production lost because of the absence from work. From the material terms, the medical expense is a part of the human’s individual expense because the person will need to buy the required medicine note that the cost of treating the disease increases as a result of scientific discoveries and the resulting complex devices to diagnose and treat the disease. But from the production terms, it’s known that the psychological situation of the patient affects his work and decreases the amount of the production. Also, being absent from work because of the disease prevents the person from doing his job so, people will not benefit from his mental, physical and different potentials. Consequently, if we considered that the human element is the effective moving element to make the economic development and social plans, his absence will be an obstacle and will delay the required things from him therefore, the raising level of population’s health is an essential goal that must be reached, either for securing the person’s joy, or to raise the work’s production.
Health care demand
Health care is demanded as a means for consumers to achieve a larger stock of "health capital." The need for health is not
References: From Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_economics from journals Elsevier : http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-health-economics/