ECON 2600 - Economics of Health Disparities

• Students will be able to explain findings of the field of economics and related social sciences on health disparities.
• Students will be able to explain the difference between two variables being correlated and one variable causing the other.
• Students will be able to explain some of the health disparities that currently exist in the United States.
• Students will be able to discuss the potential causal relationships that lead to these health disparities.
• Students will be able to apply the logic used in economic decision making to decisions that might result in the existence of a health disparity.
• Students will be able to describe the potential benefits and costs of economic policies aimed at reducing health disparities, thereby making them more informed citizens.
• Students will be able to evaluate the trade-offs involved with economic policy interventions and not using policy to attempt to correct health disparities.
• Students will be able to describe places where the findings in economics on health disparities are lacking due to a shortage of economists who experience those disparities.
• Students will be able to analyze whether potential economic policy solutions could correct the causal pathway that led to the disparity that the policy is addressing.
• Students will be able to use evidence to develop an evaluation of potential economic policy solutions for health disparities.
• Students will be able to evaluate the appropriateness of common economic assumptions when used in models that describe health disparities.
• Students will be able to propose an economic solution to a health disparity while recognizing the strengths and weaknesses of the solution.
• Students will be able to defend not enacting any economic policies to address health disparities, while recognizing the strengths and weaknesses of not doing anything.