ECON 393 - Global Health, Markets, & the Inequalities We Live With

This course explores global healthcare, health outcomes, pharmaceutical research & development, and health insurance markets. Students will apply health insurance theory to health care systems across the globe and read and discuss current literature on health phenomena and disease burdens in both developed and developing countries. We will investigate why people make the health decisions they do, how markets and policies shape those decisions, and how inequality emerges within and across health systems. Along the way, students will use economic tools to analyze real-world health behaviors, evaluate policy trade-offs, and understand the forces that drive global disparities in health.

Unit(s): 1
Group Distribution Requirement(s): Distribution Group II
Prerequisite(s): ECON 201
Instructional Method: Lecture-conference
Grading Mode: Letter grading (A-F)
Group Distribution Learning Outcome(s):

Evaluate data and/or sources.
Analyze institutions, formations, languages, structures, or processes, whether social, political, religious, economic, cultural, intellectual or other.
Think in sophisticated ways about causation, social and/or historical change, human cognition, or the relationship between individuals and society, or engage with social, political, religious or economic theory in other areas.