Economics of Health and Health Care

Economics of Health and Health Care

COURSE OUTLINE: When I was doing my doctoral research in the area of Health Economics several people asked me “What does these Economics in Healthcare mean?” Health economics or Economics of Healthcare is a discipline of economics that is concerned with the association between health status and the related resources assessing the value, behavior, eficiency and effectiveness of various stakeholders in the production and consumption of healthcare. Health Economics has not been studied well in India or in many other developing countries, unlike the developed economies.