This course rigorously examines the organization, financing, and management of the US health care system and programs, and emphasizes economic analysis contemporary health policy concerns. By the end of the semester, students should have the institutional knowledge and analytic tolls needed to contribute to current public policy debates about health and medical care. This course and ECO 724 Environmental Economics are the two courses that are the basis for the area in Environmental and Health Economics in the Ph.D. program in Economics.

This course rigorously examines the organization, financing, and management of the US health care system and programs, and emphasizes economic analysis contemporary health policy concerns. By the end of the semester, students should have the institutional knowledge and analytic tolls needed to contribute to current public policy debates about health and medical care. This course and ECO 724 Environmental Economics are the two courses that are the basis for the area in Environmental and Health Economics in the Ph.D. program in Economics.