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Summer 2021
Mar 28, 2024
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PHP 1480 - Introduction To Public Health Economics
This course builds an understanding of the healthcare delivery and financing systems from a health economics perspective. It will draw examples that illustrate the production of and demand for health, healthcare, and health insurance. The goals of the course are twofold. First, it will provide the basic intuition of the fundamental economic models such as health production, demand for healthcare and demand for insurance. Second, it will introduce key empirical findings in the public health economics literature. Emphasis will be placed on key theoretical insights as well as practical and public health policy implications.
0.000 OR 1.000 Credit hours
0.000 OR 1.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Discussion Section/Conference, Lab, Primary Meeting

Public Health Department

Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Programs:     
      Behavioral & Social Health Sci
      Biostatistics
      Epidemiology
      Epidemiology
      Biostatistics
      Epidemiology
      Health Services Research
      Statistics
      Biostatistics
      Public Health
      Public Health

Prerequisites:
Undergraduate level PHP 0310 Minimum Grade of S or Undergraduate level PHP 0320 Minimum Grade of S

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