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CHS 757 - Health Economics

(3 units)
This course introduces public health graduate students to principles of health economics. It emphasizes ways in which the production and consumption of health economics differs from traditional microeconomic models. Students will have opportunities to apply the theoretical models to problems occurring in our healthcare system and will learn how to think through these problems like an economist.

Prerequisite(s): CHS 756 .

Units of Lecture: 3
Offered: Every Fall

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. analyze economic incentives present in healthcare markets.
2. examine how healthcare policy can influence economic incentives present in healthcare markets.
3. apply economic concepts to better understand the production, consumption, and distribution of health.


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