PUBH.5160 Public Health Economics
To help students understand the delivery, financing, and organization of public health services within health systems, this course introduces economic concepts in the provision of all these health-related services: from the individual scale looking at the health care market mechanisms to identify the types of interventions the government and health care providers take (microeconomics), to the national scale of the economy (macroeconomies) by looking at the impact of economic growth, public health spending, public health policies on the health of the population. This course covers the demand and delivery for public health services, including the costs and the market structure within which they operate, along with the economic valuation and the cost-effectiveness, cost-benefit, cost-utility, and cost-consequence analysis. This course also compares the performance (equity and health outcomes) of public health systems around the world.