Postgraduate Course: Economic evaluation in health care (IPHP11018)
Course Outline
| School | School of Social and Political Science |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 10 |
| Home subject area | Postgrad (School of Social and Political Studies) |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | The aim of this course is to provide students with a critical understanding of the principles of health economics and of issues arising from their application to policy issues.
The course examines how economic evaluation is used to inform decision making in health care. Starting with economic concepts of scarcity, opportunity costs and efficiency, the course assesses the role of economic evaluation in decisions about alternative resource allocations and priority setting at various levels in a health care system. Among the topics examined are measuring and valuing outcomes, study design, types of economic evaluation, discounting, uncertainty, sensitivity analysis; the impact of economic evaluation in practice, its limits, and implementation problems.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course students will:
! be able to explain the rationale for the use of economic evaluation in health care.
! have a critical understanding of various types of economic evaluation and know when to use them.
! be able to demonstrate the skills to understand and interpret published studies on economic evaluation of health care interventions.
! have a critical understanding of the limitations of economic evaluation. |
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Jeff Collin
Tel: (0131 6)51 3961
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Course secretary | Ms Clare Nisbet
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