Health Economics

Catalog description

Develop economic understanding of how health care institutions and markets function. Includes discussion of theoretical and empirical findings pertaining to individuals' decisions about personal health and health care; decisions made by health services suppliers; and, government decision-making about resource allocation and policy in the health sector. Global scope. Draws heavily on applied microeconomics, designed for students with limited economics background. Organized sequentially beginning from individual and firm-level, then shifting to market-level, and finally macroeconomic-level which views the economy as a whole and examines role of health and health care within the macroeconomy. Course will be taught at Duke Kunshan University.