ECON 791 / Advanced Topics in Health Economics

3 unit(s)

(cross-listed as HTH RS M 791)

Prerequisite(s): ECON 788

This course focuses on issues relating to the economics of health and health care. It builds on ECON 788 and exposes students to more advanced topics and aspects of recent research in health economics. The specific topics presented depend on the instructors for each offering. Recent topics have included methods of economic evaluation and health technology assessment, the economics of work and health, the evaluation of health-care related interventions, advances in the empirical analysis of income and health inequalities, health human resources, and the evolution of health from childhood to adulthood.