| Course ID: | HPAM 4450E. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Introduction to Public Health Economics |
Course
Description: | An introduction to economic principles and applications for public health policies and programs, including an economic analysis of the health system. Designed to describe how to address public health concerns when resources are in short supply and covers what public health economics is, among other topics. |
| Oasis Title: | Intro Public Health Economics |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in HPAM 4450 |
| Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. |
| Prerequisite: | HPAM 3500 or HPAM 3500E |
| Pre or Corequisite: | HPAM 3600 or HPAM 3600E |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring and summer semester every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | - Explain the concept of scarcity and economic assumptions about human preferences
- Explain how the economy and health affect each other
- Compare global healthcare system typologies
- Analyze the healthcare market using the supply and demand framework
- Classify the degree of market competitiveness in the health care sector
- Analyze the production and costs of health care services
- Analyze how the health insurance markets work
- Conduct economic evaluation of health programs and interventions
- Analyze how socio-economic factors affect health care costs
- Assess healthcare reform and policy agenda |
| Topical Outline: | - Characteristics of the U.S. healthcare system
- Economics/health economics, working with numbers
- The competitive market, non-competitive market, market failure, the role of government, demand for health care
- The market for health insurance, health disparities
- Healthcare production, costs, and supply
- Healthcare workforce market, technology transfer in healthcare
- Economic evaluations in health care
- Comparing healthcare systems of the world
- International health system issues and reforms
- National and state health care reform from an economic perspective
- Public policy and health economics |