ECON 317

The Economics of Canadian Health Care

Units: 1.5, Hours: 3-0

An analysis of resource allocation in the Canadian health care sector. Topics include the special characteristics of health care goods and services, market failures in the health care sector, economic modelling of the consumption and production of health care, and current issues in the economics of health care.

Prerequisites: 103.

Undergraduate course in Economics offered by the Department of Economics in the Faculty of Social Sciences.