1. Epidemiology and Financial Management
Is healthcare deliver reactive or proactive? Explain.
What is the role of epidemiology in finance?
What is capitation? In your answer, include the basics as well as risk adjustment.
How are capitation rates adjusted?
What is pay for performance? Does it work? Why or why not?
2. Cost-Effective Analysis
What are cost-effective rations? A cost-effective model?
How do health care leaders/managers measure effectiveness?
What are quality-adjusted life years?
How are costs measured?
What are biased estimates?
What is a cost-benefit analysis?
In the Cost-Effectiveness of Health Insurance case study, what is the relationship between expenditures and age from both the insured and uninsured groups?
What is the relationship between quality of life, mortality and age from both the insured and uninsured groups?
3. Evidence-Based Management and Medicine
What is evidence-based medicine?
What are levels of measurement?
What is the difference between descriptive and inferential epidemiology?
Distinguish between descriptive and inferential statistics?
What are confidence intervals? How are they used in epidemiology?
What is a two-sample t-test? How is this test used in statistics and epidemiology?