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Apr 18, 2024
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HCA 157 - Health Care and Economics
Last Date of Approval: Fall 2021
3 Credits
Total Lecture Hours: 45
Total Lab Hours: 0
Total Clinical Hours: 0
Total Work-Based Experience Hours: 0
Course Description:
This course provides students an overview of economics and how it affects health care. Items such as financing systems, products, and the costs associated with health care will be examined. Students will practice critical thinking skills as they dissect a multitude of incoming information, sorting the pertinent from the irrelevant to analyze, evaluate, synthesize, or apply the data to a defendable conclusion.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: None
Mode(s) of Instruction: online
Credit for Prior Learning: There are no Credit for Prior Learning opportunities for this course.
Course Fees: 8-week online students will have a per credit hour e-book fee automatically charged to their account.
Common Course Assessment(s): None
Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
- Discuss the importance of health care economics.
- Understand the health care financing system.
- Describe the elements of health care costs.
- Understand the demand for health care products.
- Understand asymmetric information’s role in health care.
- Define common economic terminology.
- Understand the impact of regulation and health care economics.
- Understand the impact of strategic behavior and health care economics.
- Discuss the impact of markets and health care economics.
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