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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - ECP6536
Tracking Number - 1871
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- Date & Time Submitted: 2005-02-10
- Department: Economics
- College: BA
- Budget Account Number: 00-1403-00
- Contact Person: Michael Loewy
- Phone: 46532
- Email: mloewy@coba.usf.edu
- Prefix: ECP
- Number: 6536
- Full Title: Economics of Health Care I
- Credit Hours: 3
- Section Type: C -
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- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?: N
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?:
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): Economics of Health Care I
- Course Online?: -
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- Grading Option:
R - Regular
- Prerequisites: ECO 3101 or ECO 6114
- Corequisites:
- Course Description: Analysis of the supply and demand for health care, health insurance and the pharmaceutical industry.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: This course provides an MA/PhD-level introduction to the economics of health care. As such, it is taught at a more advanced level than is ECP 6535, Analysis of Health Care which is targeted to non-economics students.
- What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? This course is the first part of a two-semester sequence in the economics of health care. Thus, it draws PhD students who desire to complete a field in this area as well as MA students with an interest in the subject. The course also draws students from the College of Public Health. Thus, there is strong demand for this course.
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? Yes. Twice. It will also be offered on a regular basis in the future since it is part of a popular field sequence in economics.
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) Instructor must have a PhD in economics with a research interest in health economics.
- Objectives: To provide students with an introduction to the market for health care, health insurance, and pharmaceuticals.
- Learning Outcomes: Upon completion of the course, students will have a working knowledge of the economics of the health care industry, health insurance, and the pharmaceuticals industry.
- Major Topics: Health care production, Demand for health capital, Demand and supply of health insurance, Imperfect information in the health industry, Pharmaceutical industry
- Textbooks: Folland, S., Goodman, A., and Stano, M. "The Economics of Health and Health Care," 4th ed.
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- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.