Health issues and reforms

View the three videosfrom internet listed below:

• Atul Gawande: How do we heal medicine? http://www.ted.com/talks/atul_gawande_how_do_we_heal_medicine.html

• Eric Dishman: Health care should be a team sporthttp://www.ted.com/talks/eric_dishman_health_care_should_be_a_team_sport.html

• Rebecca Onie: What if our healthcare system kept us healthy?http://www.ted.com/talks/rebecca_onie_what_if_our_healthcare_system_kept_us_healthy.html
Please answer the questions based on the three videos you have viewed(please be noted that the points addressed in the three videos are mostly common world-wide, not only restricted to USA)

1. Compare the three videos, what are the common aspects and what are the differences in terms of the health economics related issues addressed in these three videos? (within 250 words)(40%)

2. What other important health economics issues are not addressed in the three videos? (for example, equity issue)(within 50 words)(10%)(not restricted to USA)

3. Based on what you have learned from Health Economics 1, write up the most appropriate objective function (i.e., the objectives you want to achieve and the key input factors, they are to be described in words) of the health system from the three videos, and justify the objective function you have proposed.(within 125 words)(20%)

max U = f (x1, x2, …)
s.t. constraint1: x1 , x2 = 24
constraint2: x1 , x2 = 0

where U = f (x1, x2, …) is your objective function, U is the
level of utility, x1 is the time spent on leisure, x2 is the time
spent on work,…

maximisation is to take the first order partial derivative of
U with respect to x1, x2, …
4. List the most important constraints the health system is likely to have.(within 50 words)(10%)(not restricted to USA)
5. As a health economist, how would you propose (with explanaions) a health reform strategy to maximise the objective function you have specified in 1.3 and subject to the constraints you have listed in 2.7?(within 525 words)(60%)(not restricted to USA)