HEALTH AND FINANCIAL WELL-BEING
Explores the interrelationships of health, health insurance, the health care system, and financial well-being. Provides an in-depth understanding of how the financing and delivery of health care affects consumer financial health, as well as consumer financial health as a central determinant of individual health.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Discuss health insurance as both a consumer financial product that contributes to consumer financial health and a means of payment for health care that affects consumer financial health Audience: Graduate 2. Explain how financial well-being affects health and the demand for health care Audience: Graduate 3. Explain how health, health insurance, and health care produce financial health Audience: Graduate 4. Propose research questions that explore the interrelationships between health, health insurance, the use of health care, and financial health Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Discuss health insurance as both a consumer financial product that contributes to consumer financial health and a means of payment for health care that affects consumer financial health Audience: Graduate 2. Explain how financial well-being affects health and the demand for health care Audience: Graduate 3. Explain how health, health insurance, and health care produce financial health Audience: Graduate 4. Propose research questions that explore the interrelationships between health, health insurance, the use of health care, and financial health Audience: Graduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027