Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Introduction to Health Economics
Bournemouth University
This online course explored fundamentals of healthcare economics; discussed principles of economics; identified the principles and concepts of economic evaluation and its role in the healthcare system; explained the skills in identifying, measuring, and valuing cost items and opportunity cost; enhanced an understanding of the concept of decision making, value of healthcare intervention analysis and uncertainty; and discussed additional learning in the health economics area.
2 weeks, 1 hour per week
Professor Hassan Yazdifar
Professor and Head of Accounting, Finance and Economics Department
Bournemouth University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Develop an understanding of the key concepts in health economics.
- Identify principles and concepts of economic evaluation in health systems.
- Develop skills in identifying, measuring, valuing cost items, applying discount rate, annualisation, handling inflation of costs.
- Evaluate the skills that recognise and address the challenges of limited resources within the health sector.
- Synthesise the body of the economic evaluation evidence.
- Demonstrate an understanding of concepts of cost analysis.
- Explain the key areas of health economics.
- Develop an understanding of uncertainty.
- Apply additional learning in the field of health economics / economic evaluation.
- Evaluate inter-related components of health systems from economic perspective.
Syllabus
- Principles of health economics
- Basic concepts and methods of economics, as applied to the health
- Structure and relationships in a health system from an economic perspective
- Cost effectiveness analysis of health technology based on methods of economic evaluation
- Critically evaluate the impact of policy on health system performance
Issued on 4th April 2024
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