Economics of Public Health Nursing: Allocation and Decision Making
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Chapter 8 Economics of Public Health Nursing
Economics • Study of how scarce resources are allocated • Supply • Demand
Economics • Allocation of scarce resources • Opportunity costs • Preferences • Uncertainty
Economic Decision Making • Economic logic • Scarcity • Preference • Opportunity costs • Uncertainty
Basic Economic Reasoning • Decision making at the margin • Marginal benefit • Utility • Profit
Economic Reasoning in Public Health • Profit maximization and cost minimization • Fixed cost • Variable cost • Efficiency • Technical efficiency • Technical rate of substitution • Allocative efficiency
Economic Reasoning in Public Health • Economics of for-profit and not-for-profit organizations’ behavior • Organizational objectives • Minimizing costs • Discount rate
Economic Reasoning in Public Health • Economics of an individual investment in health • Health promotion and disease prevention • Motivation • Valuing the future
Economic Reasoning in Public Health • Effects of one person’s behavior on another person’s health • Externalities • Positive: Immunizations • Negative: Smoking
Economic Reasoning in Public Health • Decisions under uncertainty • S-CHIP • Economic evaluation using cost benefit and cost effectiveness analyses • Cost benefit • Cost effectiveness analysis • Quality Adjusted Life Year (QALY)
Economic Reasoning • Economics of the public health nurse labor market • Labor supply curve • Reservation wage • Individual motivation to work • Backward bending supply curve