Resources for Papers

Citations Do not plagiarize you will get an F on the course. See  Power point slides on using citations Must use American Economic Review Reference style:  Example references Example references In text reference citation by:  If there are two or less authors use (author name date) (Barham and Maluccio 2008)  If there are three or more authors use et al. (Barham et al. 2009)  If the author is an organization use (organization name date) (World Bank 2005)

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Resources for all stages Published literature – use search engines  Medline ; Pubmed; Web of Science Google and google scholar  Ghana health, Ghana health system. Searach engine for your particular topic  Econlit See library resources on class webpage.webpage  Links with many resources.

Resources for all stages Country Reports  Department of health of country  International agency reports of country system Developing Countries: World Bank, Regional Developing Agencies (e.g. PAHO), World Health Organization (WHO)  World Bank E-library (under W in find articles and more on library website)  Country Health Projects at World Bank.  then choose countries, can get to a lot of reports from here.

Resources for all stages Developed Countries: OECD (Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development.OECD  Do a search by your country  Check regional or general report.  Use sourceOECD through library Health System Resource guide

Stage 1: Performance of the Health Care Sector Objective: Use health data to report on the performance of the health care system. At a minimum examine:  Expenditures  Morbidity  Mortality  Health care resources  And all sorts of other aspects that may be pertinent for your country Max 4 double spaced pages  This does not include your tables and references.

Stage 1: Performance of the Health Care Sector Compare data on your country to:  The average for countries in your region  The average for countries in income bracket ups.htm  It is possible to do this automatically with some databases (e.g. WDI)

Stage 1: Performance of the Health Care Sector Where possible look at trends.  How have statistics changed over the decades for your country and comparison countries This is hard depending on indicator and country Must you one of the three suggested data sources. Tables:  Must be formatted in exactly the same way and that fonts are big enough to read.  Source must be provided for each table

Stage 1: Data Sources Use your library website  Find Articles and More on Library Website. You must download and use the data sources listed below. Data taken from papers can be used as supplementary but should not be your main data source.

Stage 1: Data Sources 1.The World Development Indicators which are from The World Bank.  Get to this through the CU library website Easy to create comparisions by income level. Health % of GDP IMR Vaccination rates

Stage 1: Data Sources 2.WHO  More indicators on health  The database is called WHOSISWHOSIS  You connect to it via the class website Hit the WHO link on the class website. Choose WHOSIS 3.Source OECD  Access through library or class website  Click on the statistics tab at top of page  On left of screen click, click OECD databases, choose health

Stage 1: Data Sources Can also try: UNICEF 

Stage 2: What is expected Executive summary describing your country’s health care system.  Maximum 8 pages double spaced plus a bibliography.  At least 3 references should be in your bibliography. What is a bibliography?  List all the materials you have consulted in preparing your assignment, whether or not your actually cited them in your assignment.  Note this differs from just giving a list of reference. This would be just a list of materials you actually cited in your assignment.

Stage 2: What is expected Description of the health system  History: when did the health system first started and what precipitated it or other interesting historical information.  Coverage: is there universal coverage?  Funding: How is the health care system funded? Through taxes? Are there co-pays, user fees? How does the insurance system work? Is it government financed, privately financed or through a third party? Does this differ by state? What about those who can’t afford health care who pays for their health care?

Stage 2: What is expected Provision:  Is it privately or publically provided? In some countries there are private hospitals even if the government pays the bills  How are doctors or hospital etc. reimbursed for their services. Paid a salary, fee-for-service, per person

Stage 2: What is expected Coverage:  What kind of health services are covered by the government system or the insurance?  Are drugs covered, what types of drugs are covered etc. Well written: I’m grading you on your writing, spelling, grammar etc. Well structured: I want to see that you have structured your paper in an easy to read way. You may use subtitles or section headings if that makes it easier to read.

Group Project Objective: Your group will teach a class on your topic. Deliverables are  Paper on your topic Will act as class notes. Should be written in a paper style though with references included. Must be ed to me two days before you have to teach the class. Make sure the paper is integrated and not like 4 different people wrote it.

Group Presentations  Presentation Each member must present and you should make sure you each present for approximately the same amount of time Make sure the presentation is smooth and doesn’t look like 4 separate presentations.  Office meeting with me Come prepared. I expect you have done your research. Come with an outline and a few bullet points under each theme. The point of the meeting is for me to make sure you are on track and discuss what you want to say. I will provide help where needed.

Group Presentations Participation Points  Group participation points This is given to you by your other team members  Class participation points If you miss more than one group presentation you will get a zero for this component as per syllabus. You must each hand in two questions at the beginning of class.

Possible Group Topics 1.Drug Policy in the Developed or Developing World  Vaccines, Pricing (US & Canada problems) 2.Social Insurance in the US: Medicaid and the Managed Care Revolution 3.Health Savings Accounts 4.Economics of advertising in health care 5.The Economics of HIV/AIDS 6.Pay for performance