Headline Competence (learning outcome): 

• Define and describe the reciprocal relationship between health and economic development, illustrating how each influences the other.
• Analyze and explain the impact of national health expenditure on population health outcomes.
• Analyze and explain the relationship between household-level health expenditure and individual health outcomes.
• Critically analyze and evaluate the disparities in health outcomes between countries, with a specific focus on understanding the differences between Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) and High-Income Countries (HICs). This includes identifying key factors contributing to these disparities, such as socioeconomic determinants, access to healthcare, infrastructure, and public health policies.
• Discuss different categories of inequalities such as income, education, gender, or race and their potential effects on health status and access to healthcare.
• Investigate and detail the reasons for disparities in health and access to healthcare amongst different income groups.

Assessment Criteria: 

• Describe the ways that health affects economic development, and how development and socio-economic factors affect health.
• Show understanding of the evidence that spending on health (national and household-level) is related to health outcomes, and why some poor countries have good health indicators and vice-versa.
• Discuss different kinds of inequalities and how they can affect health status and access to healthcare.

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