Public Health Economics
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Overview
Subject area
HPAM
Catalog Number
822
Course Title
Public Health Economics
Department(s)
Description
The broad literature on health economics helps improve the understanding of issues related to public health and its influence in the decision-making process of cost-effective interventions for the overall population health. The emphasis of this class is on acquiring a set of devices from the economic theory and a framework within which to organize empirical analysis to inform health and public health policy. Topics will include the analysis of the overall health market, and in particular the analysis of the demand for health, health care and insurance, the supply of health care and insurance, the 29 market structure of the health care sector, and, finally, the positive and normative aspects of performance of the health care sector.
Typically Offered
Spring
Academic Career
Doctoral
Liberal Arts
No
Credits
Minimum Units
3
Maximum Units
3
Academic Progress Units
3
Repeat For Credit
No
Components
Name
Lecture
Hours
3