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ECON 360 - Health Economics


Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3

Prerequisite: ECON 101  or ECON 122 
Description: Analyzes the market for healthcare: demand by individual consumers and supply by health workers and hospitals. Considers the problems of information, risk, and externalities in making health decisions and the role of insurance. Explores public health policies, both in a world and domestic context. Introduces economic methods for program/policy research: elasticity estimation, cost-benefit analysis, and supply-demand modeling.



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