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Knowledge and understanding: Students will learn the role of public health and health sector in the economic development of countries; they will be able to understand the relevance of health in the human capital accumulation process and therefore in the process of economic and social growth; They will also be able to understand the role of the health sector in a globalized world where the international circulation of goods, services and people is at the same time a challenge and an opportunity for the populations. Applying knowledge and understanding: Students will be able to use the logical and analytical methods to understand the theories of growth and economic development that consider the health factor as a fundamental variable to their realization. Making judgement: The students will develop an autonomous capacity of judgement, in a theoretical and practical perspective, on the economic analysis of the "health system" and of its social-economic consequences. Communication skills: Students will develop the aptitude for economic reasoning and the ability to argumentation on economic and social topics. Learning skills: Students will be able to address other theoretical and quantitative economic discipline thanks to what was learned during the course.