Health Economics.

Catalog description

Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. Enrollment requires permission of the instructor. Develops an understanding of (1) economics as a managerial tool in making choices or decisions that will provide for an optimum allocation of limited health care resources and (2) economics as a way of thinking about and approaching issues of public policy in financing and organizing health and medical services. Individual research on crucial or controversial issues in the health care field.