ECON 4373 - Health Care Economics

Institution:

University of Central Oklahoma

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Description:

This course explores health care from an economic perspective, by examining the nature of demand and identifying suppliers of health care in order to achieve an understanding of market incentives and performance. In addition, the course examines those health care market characteristics that prevent market forces from generating socially desirable outcomes: market power, imperfect information, uncertainty, and externalities, as well as the inherent conflict arising from the desire to assure "equal access" to health care for all individuals despite widely divergent incomes. Government interventions in health care markets are examined and critiqued. Prerequisite(s): ECON 1103 or 2103.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.uco.edu

Phone Number:

(405) 974-2000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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