Public Health
PHTH 5234: Economic Perspectives on Health Policy
Lecture - 3 credits
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- Uses basic economic concepts to illuminate the many factors that shape health, healthcare, and the healthcare system in the United States.
- Examines the role of these concepts in explaining the challenges faced in achieving three core goals of the healthcare system: increasing access, limiting cost, and improving quality.
- Explores how policy makers, market participants, and others can remedy access, cost, and quality deficiencies.
- Illustrates how economic concepts can be applied to the study of health and health behaviors.
Uses basic economic concepts to illuminate the many factors that shape health, healthcare, and the healthcare system in the United States. Show more.