Course syllabus
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EEN235 EEN235 Health economics lp1 HT23 (7.5 hp)
Course is offered by the School of Public Health and Community Medicine of the Institute of Medicine in the University of Gothenburg.
Contact details
Examiner
Jahangir Khan, Professor of Health EconomicsEmail: jahangir.khan@gu.se and khanja@chalmers.se
Course administrator
Erik Olsson
Email: erik.olsson.2@gu.se
Lecturers
Pia Johansson
Senior Lecturer of Health Economics
Email: pia.johansson@gu.se
Constanze Wartenberg
Project Leader at HTA-Centrum, Västra Götalandsregionen
Email: constanze.wartenberg@vgregion.se
Jahangir Khan
Professor of Health Economics
Email: jahangir.khan@gu.se and khanja@chalmers.se
Course purpose
The aim of this course is to give students a foundational understanding of the role of economic aspects in the health care system. With the acquired knowledge and skills, the students can discuss how to improve health care services with scarce resources under different situations and assess health interventions from multiple perspectives.
Schedule
Course literature
- Pindyck, Robert S., and Daniel L. Rubinfeld. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2009 (or any later edition): 8th Edition, The Pearson Series in Economics.
- Wagstaff A. The demand for health: theory and applications Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 1986, 40, 1-11.
- Economic Evaluation in Clinical Trials by Glick A, Doshi JA, Sonnad SS, Polsky D. Oxford University Press; 2014 (ISBN 9780199685028).
- Additional material, e.g. scientific articles, will be supplied via the Student Portal.
Course design
Lectures about theories and methods as well as applications of economic analysis in health sector will be provided with interactive discussions using power-point presentations.
Lab sessions will be organized for data analyses to understand the process of conducting economic evaluations and measuring equity in health and healthcare.
A seminar will be organized about assessing the quality of scientific articles reporting economic evaluation of healthcare interventions. Self-instructed numerical exercises on economic evaluation are supplied via the Student Portal.
Following instructions should be kept in mind:
- Students will have access to course materials (lecture slides, available online literature) by canvas.
- Any submission of assignments should be made via Canvas.
- The teachers can be communicated by email in general.
- If any students miss the deadline for any submissions, he/she should contact the relevant teacher immediately.
Changes made since the last occasion
No applicable
Learning objectives and syllabus
Learning objectives:
1) To understand microeconomic theories and its applications in health and healthcare
2) To describe concepts and designs of economic evaluation of health care interventions
3) To discuss how economic evaluation can be applied to the health care sector and healthcare companies to inform decisions
4) To discuss the concepts and measurements of equity in health and healthcare
5) To perform basic calculations of key components in economic evaluation of health care interventions and equity measurements
Link to the syllabus on Studieportalen.
If the course is a joint course (Chalmers and Göteborgs Universitet) you should link to both syllabus (Chalmers and Göteborgs Universitet).
Examination form
The students are supposed to complete all three moments below for passing with different grades in the course:
- Attending the compulsory lectures (Introductory day of both modules)
- Completing economic evaluation exercises using trail-based data
- Active participation in seminar on assessment of quality of published economic evaluation
- Classroom examination on theories and methods in microeconomics and its applications in health economics as well as in economic evaluations, and equity
Course summary:
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