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ECON335

Health Economics

Subject code

ECON

Course Number

335

Department(s)

Instructor(s)

Department/Program Faculty

Course Long Title

Health Economics

Description

The health care industry represents a rapidly growing proportion of government expenditures and the U.S. economy as a whole. This course offers theoretical and empirical analyses of health care markets and individual decisions with respect to health and health care. These issues require special consideration due to asymmetric information in insurance markets and the physician-patient relationship; uncertainty in health shocks and expenditures; and interactions among health care providers, insurers, employers, and public health insurance programs. The class considers these issues primarily in a microeconomic framework and explores econometric techniques commonly used in the study of health and health care. Prerequisite(s): ECON 255 and 260.

Modes of Inquiry

Historical and Social Inquiry [HS], Quantitative and Formal Reasoning [QF]

Writing Credit

No writing credit

GEC This Course Belongs To

-

Class Restriction

Exclude First Years