HLT POL 241Economics of Health Policy
Health Policy and Management · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Second-level health economics course, with emphasis on health policy applications, designed to provide more nuanced view of health economics than does course M236. Provides more training for master’s students interested in policy, as well as material and insights for doctoral students who may find it useful in thinking about dissertation topics. Emphasis on special characteristics of health and healthcare and how these characteristics can result in market failure and various policy tools that can be used to deal with these failures. Because U.S. is only developed country that has traditionally relied on private insurance, course goes into more detail on that topic. Alternative conceptual models to traditional market one, discussion of proposed U.S. reforms, and examination of systems in selected other countries.
Letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course M236 or doctoral standing.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
confidence 1.00 · from text- HLT POL M236
- graduate standing
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
HLT POL 241
- HLT POL M236Microeconomic Theory of Health Sector
1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.