Environmental and Health Economics

The curricular unit will be developed according to a theoretical-practical model with structured exposition of the contents and respective analysis and discussion or debate. An interrogative and interactive methodology will be used prior to the presentation of the main contents and concepts, and their demonstration through their practical application in everyday situations and resorting, whenever justified, to audiovisual means. It will also include moments of work in small groups, with tutorial support and the performance of dramatization exercises, roleplaying, group dynamics and others, with guidance, as well as autonomous study with research on the exposed contents and reading and critical analysis of texts/articles.
The approval in the discipline is obtained with a classification greater than or equal to 10 values, resulting from the sum of the obtained classifications:
Written evaluation – 70%
Class works – 30%

The student must acquire knowledge
– Fundamentals of Economics and Management
– Environmental Economics
– Health Economics
– Costs and economic investments
The student must acquire skills to:
– Recognize the importance of correct management of the environment and the economic cost
– Investment in sustainability and economic benefits
– Costs associated with health
– Organization of health systems
The student must acquire competences to:
– Recognize and assess the economic impact of the environment
– Recognize and assess the economic impact of health
– Perceive the cost/benefit analysis
– Recognize economic profiles and the influence and impact of the environment on the state of the economy and health costs

CONCEPTS AND NOTIONS OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT
ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS
• New sustainable development model
• Corporate social responsibility
• Cost of environmental non-compliances
• Contributions of ecological economics: the concept of social metabolism
• Metabolic profiles, unequal trade and unsustainability
HEALTH ECONOMICS
• The importance of the health sector in the economy
• Economic analysis and health
• National Health Service and its Organization
• Health and the economic value of life
• Search in partial balance
• State of health and demand
• Zero Waste Clinic
HEALTH ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
THE DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
INFLUENCE AND IMPACT OF THE ENVIRONMENT ON THE STATE OF THE ECONOMY AND HEALTH COSTS
CIRCULAR MODEL IN PROMOTING THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY IN THE HEALTH SECTOR
COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS
• Introduction
• QALY as a measure of utility
• Cost-effectiveness analysis
• Use of economic evaluation studies

NAO

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