HADM 606 - Health Economics

3 Credit Hours
This is an introductory health economics course designed to provide students with a basic understanding of concepts in economic theory and analysis applied to healthcare delivery in the US. Health economics offers a conceptual framework and analytic tools for assessing the inter-relationships among healthcare resources, providers, consumers and markets. In other words, we will study how scarce health-related resources are allocated along with various incentives and structural frameworks that can impact those allocations.