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Healthcare Economics

Course Description: This course covers economic principles and their applications in the healthcare sector, from supply and demand for health services, financing, and efficiency to cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis. It focuses on the role of health economics in rationalizing resource utilization and supporting health care policies and decisions.
Credit hours: 3
Objectives of the course :

1. Introduce the student to economic principles in the healthcare sector.
2. Clarification of the concepts of supply, demand, financing, and health efficiency.
3. To equip the student with methods for the economic evaluation of health services.

Course outputs :

● To explain the economic principles applied in healthcare.
● To analyze the supply and demand for health services.
To apply cost-benefit analysis to support health decisions.

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  • Last updated: June 25, 2026

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