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Sep 27, 2024
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ECON129 PO - Health EconomicsWhen Offered: Last offered spring 2013; next offered fall 2015.
Instructor(s): J. Grooms
Credit: 1
Health economics has been an emerging field and a topic of much research and concern for both developed and developing countries. The U.S. health care system accounts for over 17% of the U.S. GDP. This course will serve as an introduction to the economics of health and health care. We will cover basic economic concepts necessary for understanding health economics, how the supply and demand for health varies from other goods and services, the U.S. health care system, U.S. health care reform, as well as the economics of health in developing countries. By the end of the course students will be equipped with the basic tools to better understand health and health care fields from an economic perspective. Prerequisite: ECON 052 PO .
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