EHT 315 Health Economics

HND1 levelMedical & Health Sciences15 topics

EHT 315 covers 15 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

Fundamentals of economics
Economic goods, wants, scarcity, demand and supply
Environmental health economics
National economic goals
Consumer and government roles in the economy
Budgetary procedures and national income distribution
Financial planning approaches
Consumer health and environmental health policy
Politics of health care and resource allocation
Determinants of health
Public-private mix in environmental health service delivery
Cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis
Health insurance and health care financing
Financing constraints and community self-financing
Demand, supply and privatization of environmental health services

A sample from this course

One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Fundamentals of economics

Fundamentals of economics for health economics cover the basic concepts of scarcity, choice, opportunity cost, and the role of markets and incentives. Mastering these ideas is essential for analysing how health resources are allocated, how demand for health services is measured, and how policy interventions can influence behaviour.

What you get for EHT 315

Every topic above, split into sessions and dated against your exam.
Practice questions per session, with answers that explain themselves.
Offline reading — the whole course is a few hundred KB on your phone.
An AI tutor that answers questions using this course's own material.

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