HSS 5302 Health Economics
Students will learn how to analyze current public health and health care policy issues through the application of basic economic principles. The course will begin with an introduction to the U.S. health care “system” because we will be using examples drawn almost exclusively from the American context. The concepts we will be learning, however, are widely generalizable and can be applied beyond the U.S. Among the topics we will discuss are demand for health, supply of health care, health insurance coverage, benefit design, physician payment incentives, organization of the health care industry, and public economics in health and innovation.
Prerequisite
None