ECON335
Health Economics
Economics
BC
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