Applied Health Care Economics for Nurses

3 credits · School of Nursing

Economics is the study of how scarce resources are allocated among competing ends. Students will study the way markets supporting health, health care and social determinants of health are organized and financed and how health policy influences markets and health economics. Contemporary public issues and topics in health system payment models will be discussed. The course emphasizes managerial uses of economic principles and de-emphasizes mathematical problem sets or students developing economic models