HEALTH POLICY & HLTH CARE ECONOMICS

This course is designed to provide the student with an overview of the development of healthcare policy in the United States. The role health professionals play in defining health policies and healthcare reform, and its impact on healthcare delivery systems is explored. The course offers an introduction to economics and policy factors that affect healthcare systems as well as a review of relevant economic concepts and topics such as supply and demand and how they relate to healthcare. The constructs of cost benefit, cost-effective analysis, implications of insurance strategies, cost containment, emerging health technologies, and government regulations are discussed. Global health policy and economics will be explored with an overview of health care finance as it relates to health care systems.