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McMaster offers a wide-range of education opportunities in health economics at the undergraduate, graduate, post-graduate and post-professional levels.

Training Opportunities

Training Opportunities

Students at McMaster can pursue their health economics interests through several graduate programs designed to prepare students for the varied career opportunities open to those with health economics expertise.

Research

Research

McMaster is home to vibrant research programs that span the full range of topics in health economics, the full set of methodological approaches used in health economics, and the continuum from foundational economics science to research that directly informs specific health policy questions.

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Resources

Links to Departments, Programs and Research Units, involved in Health Economics at McMaster

What is health economics?

Health economics draws together the ideas and tools of various fields of economics including econometrics, public finance, labour market economics, and industrial organization to study the economics of health and health care systems. These are combined with sector-specific institutional knowledge both to study and to contribute policy advice regarding the health sector. Topics are diverse including, for example, tax policy concerning health-related behaviours, payment models for the health workforce, insurance and financing schemes for health care, equity in health and health care, the dynamics of health, and determinants of physical and mental health outcomes.

Latest News & Events

27th Labelle Lecture: “Primary care, secondary data: Learning from policy change in British Columbia”

Dr. Ruth Lavergne, an Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University, will describe the consequences of efforts in British Columbia to change primary care models when she presents the 27th annual Labelle Lecture on Wednesday Oct. 3, 2018.

Sep 24, 2018

HEAM seminar — Wednesday February 7, 3:30 – 5:00pm, CRL B119

Socioeconomic differences in risk and trends of out-of-pocket prescribed drug expenditures in Canada

Feb 01, 2018

HEAM to the rescue: the 2021 Redesign of the Canadian Community Health Survey – Wednesday November 1, 3:30 – 5:00pm, CRL B119

The third major redesign of the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) is now underway. One of the major objectives of this redesign is to review and update the survey’s content to ensure that the CCHS remains relevant and continues to be able to respond to emerging data needs.

Oct 13, 2017