Overview
Description
This course introduces public health graduate students to principles of health economics. It emphasizes ways in which the production and consumption of health economics differs from traditional microeconomic models. Students will have opportunities to apply the theoretical models to problems occurring in our healthcare system and will learn how to think through these problems like an economist.
Requirements
Prerequisites
CHS 756
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall
Terms
fall
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- analyze economic incentives present in healthcare markets.
- examine how healthcare policy can influence economic incentives present in healthcare markets.
- apply economic concepts to better understand the production, consumption, and distribution of health.