Health Economics
Module leads
Learning objectives:
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To define fundamental concepts and principles of economics relevant to health and health care
- To evaluate the many distinctive features of the functioning of the health and health care market
- To appreciate why economic evaluation of health care and public health interventions is important
- To become familiar with the methods and application of economic appraisal in health care
- To critically appraise, analyse and interpret economic studies of health and health care interventions
Sessions:
- Comparative health systems: health care funding and provision
- Microeconomic Principles: Health capital
- Supply and Organisation of Health Services: Markets and mechanism design
- Principles of priority setting and of economic appraisal
- Measuring and valuing health
- Defining and measuring costs
- Decision analytic modelling and extrapolation for economic evaluation
- Cost-effectiveness and decision-making in practice