Advanced Healthcare Economics and Policy

Catalog description

In this course, participants analyze U.S. health policy and service delivery using an economic perspective. Economic concepts covered include scarcity, market pricing, supply, demand, and efficiency and how they apply to healthcare and public health today. Using economic tools and perspectives, participants analyze and interpret current health policy, practice, and research. Students also contrast health economics and health policy/practice in the United States with other industrialized countries. Participants develop skills in advocating for and defending health related policies and programs that could improve health and public health in the United States. Students need to be enrolled in Master’s in Public Health program or other graduate degree program.