Comparative Health Systems I

Harvard HSPH

GHP 202 is the first course in a two-course series on comparative health systems. The course will introduce students to health systems frameworks as well as essential concepts for conducting comparative health systems research. In particular, the course uses theories of the market and the government as organizing principles. This course will focus on: (i) theories of market and market failures, (ii) theories of government and government failures, and (iii) analyses of different types of…