Health Economics

2 credits · Graduate School

This course explores the economic principles shaping healthcare markets and the behavior of actors within the system such as hospitals, physicians, patients, and pharmaceutical companies. Through a combination of lectures, discussions, and practical exercises, we will survey a variety of topics that reveal the complex interactions between various healthcare actors including market competitiveness, system financing, cost-effectiveness analysis, behavioral economics, and the role of economics in determining healthcare access and quality. [2]