ECON338-25S2 (C) Semester Two 2025

Health Economics Overview

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 14 July 2025
End Date: Sunday, 9 November 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 27 July 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 28 September 2025

Description

An application of microeconomic and empirical tools to the study of health and medical care. The topics covered will include market failures arising from asymmetric information, the demand for and production of health, provision of health insurance, and government involvement in the medical care system.

Prerequisites

Recommended Preparation

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Midterm test 40%
Essay 20%
Final exam 40%

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Folland, Sherman , Goodman, Allen C., Stano, Miron; The economics of health and health care ; Eight edition; Routledge, 2017.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $893.00

International fee $4,200.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Department of Economics and Finance .

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