Peter’s Business and Economy Issues

Specialists in health economics are prepared in different parts of the world in many universities. Many of such educational establishments include Centres for Health Economics. Their main mission is to contribute to the development and application of health economics and health services research through research, teaching and policy support.

The goals of the Centers for health economics are the following:

• to develop and apply methods to evaluate the costs, risks, benefits and utility of specific health interventions and of alternative allocations of health resources;
• to analyze and evaluate the effectiveness, efficiency and equity of systems of organization, governance, financing, funding, and delivery of health services;
• to develop, apply and evaluate methods for analysing the behaviour of the public, patients, providers, managers and other decision makers in health systems;
• to develop, apply, and evaluate methods to convey health information to the public, patients, providers, managers, funders and other decision-makers in health systems;
• to evaluate the role of health and social policy initiatives in addressing the determinants of, and alleviating inequalities in, the population’s health.