Curriculum Public Health Economics
Public Health Economics
The economics of keeping populations healthy - tobacco and alcohol policy, obesity, tuberculosis, malaria, antibiotic resistance, disease surveillance, DALYs and neglected diseases.
- Public Health as an Economic Investment How public health differs from treating individual patients, why it is often underfunded, and why economists see it as one of the best investments a society can make. 📄 Read-aloud
- Tobacco Taxes Why raising tobacco taxes is considered one of the most effective ways to reduce smoking, how smokers respond to price changes, and India's approach. 📄 Read-aloud
- The Economics of Alcohol Policy How taxes, licensing and prohibition affect drinking and its harms, with lessons from India's state-level prohibition experiments. 📄 Read-aloud
- The Economics of Obesity Why obesity has risen worldwide, including in India, the economic costs it imposes, and the policies that can help. 📄 Read-aloud
- Tuberculosis: India's Biggest Infectious Killer Why India carries the world's largest tuberculosis burden, the economic costs for families and the country, and the programmes to end TB. 📄 Read-aloud
- Fighting Malaria How malaria harms health and economies, the cost-effective tools that cut deaths, and debates about free versus paid bed nets. 📄 Read-aloud
- Public Health Economics: Checkpoint 1 Quick checkpoint - five questions on public health investment, tobacco, alcohol, obesity and TB. 5 questions
- Antibiotic Resistance: A Tragedy of the Commons Why overuse of antibiotics is making them less effective, how this resembles overfishing a shared resource, and what policies can protect them. 📄 Read-aloud
- Disease Surveillance: An Early Warning System for Health How health systems track diseases to detect outbreaks early, why surveillance is a public good, and the high returns of catching epidemics quickly. 📄 Read-aloud
- Measuring Health: DALYs and Cost-Effectiveness How economists measure the burden of disease with DALYs and compare health interventions by cost-effectiveness to decide how to spend limited budgets. 📄 Read-aloud
- Nudging Healthy Behaviour How insights from behavioural economics, like defaults, reminders and commitment, are used to encourage vaccination, handwashing and medication adherence. 📄 Read-aloud
- The Economic Cost of Physical Inactivity How a lack of physical activity raises the risk of disease, the costs to health systems and economies, and policies that encourage active living. 📄 Read-aloud
- Neglected Tropical Diseases and Snakebite Why diseases that mainly affect the world's poorest people receive little research and investment, and how cheap treatments and mass drug programmes can help. 📄 Read-aloud