770G25 · 7.5 credits · Basic level (G1F) · Nationalekonomi
Health Economics and Ethics
Active · next start VT 2027
47%
passed the latest ordinary exam
EXAM · 20 Feb 2026 · 15 students
63%
passed the ordinary exams, all sittings over the last 5 years
EXAM · 73 students
Unusually hard in 2025/26
47% passed the ordinary exam in 2025/26 (15 students), against 72% on average in earlier years (58 students).
Exam
EXAM Examination
- VG
- G
- U
Ordinary exams
63% passed · 73 students
- 47%15
- 58%24
- 88%8
- 69%26
Re-exams
87% passed · 15 students
- 89%9
- 83%6
- Pass the re-exam: 87% (15 students), compared with 63% (73 students) on the ordinary exam
- Get VG: 20% (88 students)
Show small sittings (7)
Sittings with fewer than 5 students, often credit transfers or special sittings. They are not part of any figure on this page.
- 100%3
- 50%4
- 0%1
- 0%1
- 100%1
- 100%1
- 50%4
Other modules
Partial exams, hand-ins and labs. They are not part of the figures at the top.
Hand-in or lab
INLU Assignment
- G
Main rounds
100% passed · 67 students
- 100%12
- 100%22
- 100%7
- 100%26
Later rounds
100% passed · 5 students
- 100%5
- Pass a later round: 100% (5 students), compared with 100% (67 students) on the ordinary exam
Show small sittings (5)
Sittings with fewer than 5 students, often credit transfers or special sittings. They are not part of any figure on this page.
- 100%1
- 100%2
- 100%3
- 100%1
- 100%3
About the course
Aim
After completion of the course the student should be able to:
- perform health economic calculations/analyses using appropriate methods
- interpret and critically assess health economic evaluations
- understand ethical principles of health care decision making
- analyse and integrate economic, political and ethical policy issues related to health care.
Content
The course covers traditional health economic theory and methods. The course content includes:
- The demand and supply of health care
- Market failures in health care
- Cost effectiveness analysis
- Measurement of quality of life
- Decision analytic modelling
- Ethical implications of health care decision making
- Justice theories related to health care
- Examiner
- Therese Eriksson
- Main field of study
- Nationalekonomi