Health Economics and Health Systems in Low and Middle Income Countries

3 credits

Explores applications of health economics in health systems in low and middle income. Students examine the drivers of differences in health across countries with different income groups. Highlights the challenges and peculiarities of addressing key questions about health care access, interventions, and systems in low and middle income settings. Recommended: previous college-level coursework in either economics or microeconomics; and previous college-level coursework in statistics; probability; and the fundamentals of calculus. Offered: Sp.