#28: Health economics crash course with Sam Stoddart

Health economics helps us understand how to improve health outcomes and lifestyle patterns through interactions between individuals, healthcare providers and clinical settings. Broadly speaking, it helps answer questions such as what is health and what is its value? Sam Stoddart helps us understand the basic health economics concepts; their benefits but also their limitations.

If you want to learn more about Sam and his work, check out his website Monkeyglandin and blog to learn more about science, medicine, statistics…stuff.

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