313.641.81
Health Economics I
Location
Internet
Term
3rd Term
Department
Health Policy and Management
Credit(s)
3
Academic Year
2012 - 2013
Instruction Method
TBD
Auditors Allowed
No
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Contact Name
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Resources
Prerequisite
Introduction to Online Learning, 313.639 1st term, or 313.670 1st term, or permission of instructor
Introduces students to the application of economic tools to the analysis of the interaction among the many stakeholders in the health care system and the public health system. Uses a standard medical care economics text as the main reference guide; also draws on a combination of other texts that either use economic tools to draw contrasting conclusions, or that consider the economics of issues related more directly to public health topics.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
- compare and contrast the demand for health and health care
- motivate the demand for protection from health care expenditures
- describe the economics of production of health services,
- discuss the production and supply of medical personnel
- discuss the supply of the pharmaceutical products
- discuss the economics of public health externalities
- describe the role of government in remedying market failures in the health care sector
- discuss the economics of public health issues including obesity, food safety, injury prevention, and infectious disease
Enrollment Restriction
Undergraduates are NOT permitted in this course